The National Trails System, by the numbers.
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Posted inJune 26, 2017: Personal Pilgrimage
Cartographers have been making bad maps for centuries
A new volume of maps shows the evolution of how we understand geography.
Posted inJune 26, 2017: Personal Pilgrimage
Meet the woman behind Colorado’s highest trails
How trail designer Loretta McEllhiney protects mountains from people.
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Week in review: June 23
What you missed amid the health care hubbub: offshore drilling sales, EPA buyouts, roadkill rules.
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California entra al debate global sobre el cambio climático
Mientras que Trump da su espalda a los acuerdos, California presenta una meta ambiciosa.
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Week in review: June 16
Methane rules paused, the other national monument fight, deportation protection rescinded.
Posted inJune 12, 2017: The Big Swing
Big Dan, a couple of beers and thousands of honeybees
A tale of removing a bee infestation.
Posted inJune 12, 2017: The Big Swing
Native Lives Matter; Elk slaughter; Labor union movement
HCN.org news in brief.
Posted inJune 12, 2017: The Big Swing
See photos that illustrate the cost of building Alaska’s Pebble Mine
Carl Johnson’s photography shows the bay ‘where water is gold.’
Posted inJune 12, 2017: The Big Swing
Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, revisited
A new book examines six decades of transformation in Monterey, California.
Posted inJune 12, 2017: The Big Swing
The Big Swing: Why a blue Colorado county voted for Trump
How a wave of retirees and a changed economic landscape reshaped rural politics.
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Week in review: June 9
Bears Ears decision looms, another Hanford incident and Jerry Brown goes to China.
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Week in review: June 2
Breaking ties with Paris, Dakota Access ships oil and we’ll never forget “covfefe.”
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La clase trabajadora le está dando nueva vida a los sindicatos
En Los Angeles, un movimiento crece a pesar de la administración de Trump.
Posted inMay 29, 2017: The Cost of a Comeback
The cost of the bighorn comeback
In California’s Eastern Sierra, bringing back bighorn has meant killing more mountain lions.
Posted inMay 29, 2017: The Cost of a Comeback
Elliott for all; Missed connections; Logging in monuments?
HCN.org news in brief.
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Week in review: May 26
Another Anadarko oil explosion, protestors at FERC and landslides in Big Sur.
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The river-access lawsuit at the center of Montana’s House race
Will the state’s movement to protect public lands affect Greg Gianforte?
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Week in review: May 19
Can prairie dogs talk? Plus, dating very old rock stacks and a Bundy trial update.
Posted inMay 15, 2017: Prison Town
Mistrial in Bundy standoff case
Some Bundy supporters see the jury deadlock as a sliver of hope.