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  • 2 weeks ago | hcn.org | Greg Hanscom

    The members of the High Country News Board of Directors recently welcomed Chris Winter to their ranks. Chris is an attorney and heads the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment at Colorado Law School, an environmental law center at CU Boulder with close ties to Indigenous communities.

  • 1 month ago | hcn.org | Greg Hanscom

    First, a heartfelt thank-you to all who have contributed to our spring fund drive — and a quick nudge to get in on the action if you haven’t done so already! In a year when journalism is under attack and an administration in Washington is spreading chaos, your notes and contributions renew our sense of purpose. We’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: The West has never needed High Country News more.

  • 2 months ago | hcn.org | Greg Hanscom

    These are dizzying times. The Trump administration is clear-cutting the agencies that oversee our beloved national parks and forests and rangelands and refuges — the public lands that make up half of the Western U.S. At the same time, it has frozen funds for conservation and restoration work on private and tribal lands, as well as for clean energy and climate adaptation projects.

  • Mar 1, 2025 | hcn.org | Greg Hanscom

    In the past three and a half decades, a lot of names have appeared on the High Country News masthead: three publishers, five or six chief editors, a few dozen assistant editors and staff writers and something like 200 interns and fellows. But in all that time, HCN has had only one art director.

  • Feb 18, 2025 | editorandpublisher.com | Greg Hanscom |Bob Miller

    Posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 12:00 am We built our name on environmental reporting. In the last seven years, we have really embraced Indigenous Affairs reporting. We were among the first non-native publications in the country to create a desk with a team of journalists specifically dedicated to issues of concern to Native communities.” High Country News has told the environmental and ecological stories of the Western United States for more than 50 years. In so doing, the publication has...

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