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After an unusually warm, dry November, we finally got some snow on the Western Slope. Though only a light dusting has fallen in Paonia, Colorado, where our magazine is headquartered, the mountains around us are blanketed in white, so it’s finally beginning to look like winter here. High Country News has been doing quite a […]
Posted inDecember 12, 2016: How the Park Service is Failing Women
Plans falter for West Coast coal terminals
Coal companies look to Asia, but face port challenges.
Posted inDecember 12, 2016: How the Park Service is Failing Women
Solar jobs for miners; millipede discovery; drought’s effects
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Posted inDecember 12, 2016: How the Park Service is Failing Women
The historical lifetime of the beaver
Explaining our complex relationship with North America’s largest rodent.
Posted inNovember 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
Could land speed racing fade from Bonneville Salt Flats?
Utah’s changing landscape casts doubt on the future of a sport.
Posted inNovember 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
Election 2016 roundup, Greens prepare for battle, Latino voters turn out
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Posted inNovember 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
How to love a weird and perfect wilderness
A desolate Oregon landscape offers lessons on the modern wild.
Posted inNovember 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
See photos of a journey down the Old Rio Grande
Through the lens of the people who lived near and were shaped by the river.
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Army halts Dakota Access Pipeline construction
Federal government wants more discussions with tribes, analysis of possible spills.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
How to tell the story of the West, rural and urban
A residential library for readers, poets and naturalists takes shape.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
Insights from a climate oasis
Author Kathleen Alcalá on learning to become an activist.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
Malheur verdict, chubs and understanding #NoDAPL
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Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
Native American literature’s shapeshifter
Novelist Stephen Graham Jones on how he transcends stereotypes.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
See photos of otherworldly owls
The North American owls and their landscapes.
Posted inNovember 14, 2016: The Long View
Why we don’t mention my great-grandfather’s name
Aaron A. Abeyta on his family’s shadowy past in New Mexico
Posted inDecember 26, 2016: Obama and the West
Where will the West’s next national monument be?
Bears Ears isn’t the only local effort to get Obama to designate protections before he leaves office.
Posted inOctober 31, 2016: A Monumental Divide
The many landscapes of Bears Ears
See photos of the proposed national monument, ranging from meadows to cliffs.