The Magazine

A Wyoming farmer battles industry and bureaucracy trying to find out whether hydraulic fracturing – used in natural gas drilling – polluted his drinking water.

An air-tour businessman and Italian developers become deeply enmeshed in the politics of tiny Tusayan, Ariz., part of a plan to profit from the nearby Grand Canyon.

A strategic miscalculation by environmental groups helped spur the delisting of gray wolves in Montana and Idaho.

On Fort Berthold: Three tribes, a dam, and a diabetes epidemic. | On the Klamath: A settlment to restore rivers and tribes.

Debbie Sease has spent three decades on Capitol Hill, fighting for the West.

A float down the Lower San Juan teaches surprising lessons about dams, water and silt in the West.

Ranchers battle gigantic meatpackers to get a fair price for cattle in a changing economy.

Republicans, Tea Partiers and environmentalists unite against power transmission lines planned for Montana.

Alaska’s politicians and scientists wrestle over how to manage big game and the predators that prey on it.

Not everybody is happy, but the Obama administration is making slow but steady progress in dealing with the West’s environmental issues.

Kane County, Utah, heart of the Sagebrush Rebellion and an off-road vehicle paradise, is also home to a growing number of environmentalists, hikers and animal lovers.

Will there ever be enough water in California’s Bay Delta to satisfy farmers, keep fish alive and quench the thirst of millions of people?

Long-banned pesticides linger in the soils of neighborhoods built on former agricultural land in central Washington.

In southern Arizona, the Forest Service is debating whether to defy the 1872 Mining Law and stop a controversial copper mine.

Tom Coburn and James Inhofe came to power with the help of Oklahoma’s religious conservatives.

It’s not the Old West, it’s our guide to this year’s Western elections — tracking how the rising anger threatens to overcome many voters’ moderate streak.

In California’s White Mountains, scientists ponder the fate of bristlecone pines and butterflies in a rapidly warming world.

The pull of instinct, season and desire

High Country News’ founder, Tom Bell, marks our 40th anniversary with a grim prediction: The West — and the world — are doomed.

Young undocumented immigrants thrive in the U.S. — until they turn 18, and the law cracks down.