Drill rigs pop up near Navajo communities, Chaco Canyon and the iconic Black Place.
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Shaken and stirred in California’s recent earthquake
How seismic events can make drought impacts worse.
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Two political elites prevail in Navajo primary melee
Shirley and Deschene pull ahead of 15 other candidates.
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New Mexico delays controversial Gila vote
Many unanswered questions remain about proposals to divert the state’s last undammed major river.
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Did Obama’s Interior hobble the Endangered Species Act?
A new policy sets the law back a half-century, conservationists say.
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Wilderness at 50: A place to be free, a place to hide
No Place To Hide is the name of a new book by Glenn Greenwald, the Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter who worked with whistleblower Edward Snowden to break the story on National Security Agency spying. The book’s title is drawn from commentary by Sen. Frank Church of Idaho, who held hearings in the 1970s that uncovered widespread domestic […]
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Considering historical correctness in New Mexico
Kit Carson’s name is everywhere on maps of the West. Nevada’s capital city is named after him, and in California, a Carson Pass crosses the Sierra Nevada. Colorado has Carson County, a town named Kit Carson and 14,000-foot Kit Carson Peak. But was the man himself really worth honoring? A few years before Carson died […]
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Rural cops get militarized
Pentagon gives guns, armored vehicles and battlefield gear to rural Western counties.
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Forest Service’s mission goes up in flames
New report shows long-term firefighting costs eroding most other work.
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Climate threats to Alaska food security
Human caused climate change can seem like an abstract global problem, but when it begins to affect our food supply things get real, real quick. For the latest edition of Sounds of the High Country, KDNK’s collaboration with the magazine HCN, Nelson Harvey spoke to writer Elizabeth Grossman about how native Alaskan tribes are seeing […]
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The privatization of public campground management
All the info you need to decide whether you love or hate that the Forest Service uses concessionaires.
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Concessionaire Campgrounds: An Explainer
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North Dakota wrestles with radioactive oilfield waste
Regulators look at raising the limit for radiation amid a rash of illegal dumping.
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In North Dakota, booms past and present
A photographer returns home to examine changes to the landscape.
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New BLM plan weighs sage grouse and oil in Wyoming
Governor Mead hopes the plan will keep the bird off the endangered species list.
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What’s killing the Yukon’s salmon?
An ecological mystery in Alaska has scientists and fishermen baffled and alarmed.
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Jonathan Thompson on payday lending
It may not come as a surprise that many Native Americans living on mostly poor, remote reservations in the American West have come to rely heavily on payday loan companies offering cash at high interest rates when money is tight. Yet as Jonathan Thompson reveals in the current issue of High Country News, some tribes […]