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Posted inApril 10, 2015: Strangers in a Strange Land
Readers’ foreign travel tales
Winners of the High Country News essay contest for our annual travel issue.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
In the footsteps of a roving genius
Photographs and an interview from high peaks of the Alaska Range.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
Gifts — and memories — for the ages
HCN staff and board members on their favorite green holiday gifts.
Posted inOctober 27, 2014: Defuse the West
Related High Country News coverage
Nevada’s ugly tug-of-war (1995) County commissioner courts bloodshed (1995) Utah counties bulldoze the BLM, Park Service (1996) Nevadans drive out forest supervisor (1999) Shoveling vs. sniveling (2000) Showdown on the Nevada range (2001) Change comes slowly to Escalante country (2003) Road warriors back on the offensive (2003) Rebels with a lost cause (2007 Sagebrush Rebel […]
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Winners of the HCN reader photography contest
Readers’ and editors picks in people, landscape and wildlife.
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Readers’ favorite books
As part of our annual Books & Essays print edition, we asked our readers, Facebook fans and Twitter followers what their favorite books about the West are and why. Many of you responded with fantastic titles for a wide variety of reasons. Here they are: Replies from Twitter: Replies from Facebook:
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
High Country News has a new website!
A timeline of hcn.org since it launched in 1995.
Posted inArticles
A conversation with Chuck Bowden from 2002
The late writer discusses the ‘cannibalism of society’ and other ills.
Posted inSupport
Covering the issues that matter
Watch contributing editor Matt Jenkins, as he explains the importance of water in the West!
Posted inJuly 19, 2010: The Ute Paradox
How to return a pot
Imagine discovering a pot tucked inside an ancient ruin on a hike. That’d really look nice on my mantel, you think, and grab it. Later, you learn that collecting artifacts from public lands is not only illegal, it permanently destroys the object’s original context and meaning — the information that helps archaeologists piece together the […]
Posted inMay 18, 2009: The Rise of the Minotaur
It’s a dam mess
The “Salmon Salvation” article misses the point badly (HCN, 5/11/09). The obsession with the lower four dams on the Snake distracts from a much larger and more tangled problem. Although I, too, would like to see those dams go, the four lower Snake Dams are a relatively minor component of a vast set of problems; […]
Posted inOctober 3, 1994: Subdividing the desert: Should there be a vote?
The clueless West
Dear HCN, The “Grappling With Growth” issue of Sept. 5 was the best yet, albeit downright despairing. I’ve been traveling around the West, up and down, back and forth, for almost 20 years and have yet to find a community that really had a clue as to what was happening to it. Quite frankly, the […]