How Hanalei, Hawaii, reflects small Western towns.
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Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Growing up in timber country
A writer returns to the old-growth forest of her youth.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Raptors in flight
Enduring relationships begin with encounters.
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Week in review: March 3
Arizona’s solar fights, Nevada development and a jaguar spotting are among the stories grabbing HCN writers’ attention this week.
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Week in review: February 24
The staff of High Country News shares what they’re reading on state land sales, private prisons and CPAC.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
Artful science
Data and poetry converge in an experimental forest.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
How a Chicano band blends urban and wild life
Quetzal finds a sense of place in East Los Angeles.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
When private pain becomes a community problem
How a rural clinic sparked a small-town addiction crisis.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
One in, two out; methane rules; facts and democracy
HCN.org news in brief.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
The watcher and the watched
Observation transforms our bodies and minds.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
The winding beauty of Southwest deserts
A collection of photographs capture nature’s rhythms.
Posted inFebruary 20, 2017: Overdosed
Visitors, travels and goodbye to a staff member
After nearly a decade at HCN, Tammy York says goodbye.
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Why keep the Salton Sea?
A history of the manmade — and now essential — inland ocean.
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The land of rain
Storms have drenched California. But they hardly compared to the storms of 1862.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
A new use for old produce
Inside the cross-border operation that saves fresh food from the trash.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
Young people are suing over climate change
The Constitution may hold the key to climate action.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
Naked in the desert
The sunburned, imperfect and deeper wild of the human body.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
Trump on energy; Obamacare numbers; guerilla archiving
HCN.org news in brief.
