Infant mortality among Wyoming’s Native population is more than double that of the state’s white population.
People & Places
Posted inNovember 9, 2015: The Campaign Against Coal
An ode to germs, guts and gardens
When calamity strikes, a gardener finds her way back to the basics.
Posted inNovember 9, 2015: The Campaign Against Coal
‘Legal monkey-wrenching’ on Western trails
One man’s guerrilla trail work aims to improve public access to public land.
Posted inNovember 9, 2015: The Campaign Against Coal
The beaver whisperer
A biologist figures out how to keep beavers alive on Western landscapes.
Posted inArticles
Contaminated soil lingers where apples once grew in Washington
Soil at hundreds of properties contains lead and arsenic that can lower children’s IQs and increase cancer risk.
Posted inOctober 26, 2015: Clean Energy's Dirty Secret
A marriage of unequals
A review of ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come,’ Alexandra Fuller’s account of her unsteady arc from Zimbabwe to Wyoming
Posted inOctober 26, 2015: Clean Energy's Dirty Secret
Photographing Wyoming Prairies
A review of ‘Wyoming Grasslands.’
Posted inOctober 26, 2015: Clean Energy's Dirty Secret
Where nuns are ranch hands
Colorado’s Abbey of St. Walburga is a spiritual refuge — and a working ranch.
Posted inArticles
Why are the feds sticking with a racist name for a Washington lake?
Update from HCN staff, Oct. 23, 2015: Two days after this piece was published, the National Park Service reversed its decision and recommended that the U.S. Board of Geographic Names change the name of Coon Lake to Howard Lake, Glenn Nelson reports. “We recognize that our previous decision on this issue overlooked relevant information, and […]
Posted inOctober 12, 2015: The Rise of Lisa Murkowski
How 2013’s Front Range floods changed the face of the region
Two years after floodwaters swept through, many immigrant families are still struggling to rebuild.
Posted inOctober 12, 2015: The Rise of Lisa Murkowski
How to survive the bust
As oil prices plummet, a drill rig worker traces the effects among his brethren.
Posted inOctober 12, 2015: The Rise of Lisa Murkowski
The self in perpetual motion
A review of “Spirit Bird: Stories” by Kent Nelson.
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Fresno, California, aims to recharge its dwindling groundwater
Surface water projects give groundwater a break, in the state’s fourth year of severe drought.
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Utah’s Supreme Court delivers a victory for immigrant rights
Tens of thousands are deported each year for accepting plea deals. Now they will have a new way to fight back.
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Ranch Diaries: Why cowboy life is intense
We have other interests, like art and cooking, that take a backseat to the needs of our land and animals.
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No direction home
Nearly a year after San Jose shut down the Bay Area’s biggest homeless encampment, hundreds still live along city creeks. What went wrong?
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Rants from the Hill: The aliens that make Nevada home
Military history, conspiracy theories and the landscape itself make Nevada ground zero for the bizarre and otherworldly.
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Dispatch from Valley Fire evacuation camp in California
State officials are calling the Lake County blaze one of the fastest-moving fires in memory.
Posted inSeptember 14, 2015: Close Ties in Big Landscapes
Sketching water chemistry on the Animas, hunting mushrooms in the Northwest.
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Posted inSeptember 14, 2015: Close Ties in Big Landscapes
The human cost of Westward expansion
A review of ‘American Copper’ by Shann Ray.