Nelson Harvey takes a ride on Denver’s light rail to see whether it’s changed his city for the better.
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Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
In the footsteps of a roving genius
Photographs and an interview from high peaks of the Alaska Range.
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Residential wells run completely dry in the Central Valley
The drought is not an abstract threat for families in Porterville, California.
Posted inNovember 10, 2014: Fallout
Photographs of the Gold Beach community
The people affected by this timberland herbicide cocktail.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
An expedition along the imperiled Rio Grande
The river’s future may include longer droughts, larger floods and shrinking snowpack.
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The thing just beyond our reach
A portrait of writer Charles Bowden, told by people he’s written about and editors he’s worked with.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Depression era photos from your hometown
A new Yale project allows viewers to explore 175,000 images by county.
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From the Tipi to the Tesla
Activist Winona LaDuke on environmental justice and foregoing unclean technology.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Winners of the HCN reader photography contest
Readers’ and editors picks in people, landscape and wildlife.
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Navajo ranching in the Chuska Mountains
Keeping a tradition alive in western New Mexico.
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KDNK speaks with HCN reporter John Calderazzo
Scientists who study climate change can be remarkably bad at communicating findings.
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Depression era photos from your hometown
A new Yale project allows viewers to explore 175,000 images by county.
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KDNK speaks with HCN reporter Claudine LoMonaco
On troubling corporate and Forest Service conduct in Arizona.
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A conversation with Chuck Bowden from 2002
The late writer discusses the ‘cannibalism of society’ and other ills.
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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 […]
Posted inAugust 18, 2014: Alaska's Uncertain Food Future
A Taxonomy of Landscape
A Taxonomy of LandscapeVictoria Sambunaris, essay by Natasha Egan, short story by Barry Lopez. 126 pages with 36 page booklet, hardcover: $60. Radius Books, 2014. To create A Taxonomy of Landscape, Victoria Sambunaris traveled America’s interstates and backroads alone for months with a 5-by-7-inch wooden field camera, driven, she says, by “an unrelenting curiosity to […]
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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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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 […]
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Border patrol runs roughshod on public lands
In its quest to secure the U.S./Mexico border, the U.S. Border Patrol is running roughshod over huge swaths of desert wilderness with complete immunity from U.S. environmental laws. That’s what Ray Ring, a senior editor at High Country News, discovered on a recent reporting trip to the border for his feature story “Border Out of […]