High Country News

High Country News is a non-profit news organization that produces a magazine, website, and various other publications. Their focus is on the challenges and topics relevant to the Western United States. Established in 1970 by rancher and environmental advocate Tom Bell in Wyoming, High Country News operates as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation based in Paonia, Colorado.

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Los inmigrantes sienten esperanza, odio y se sienten perseguidos

3 days ago | hcn.org | Jesús Jank Curbelo |Gretchen King

Hace un mes, en Los Ángeles, vi a dos mujeres peleándose en la fila de una gasolinera. Ambas parecían de unos 30 años y pesaban más o menos lo mismo: una estadounidense contra una latina. La estadounidense dijo que merecía ir primero, antes que todos esos latinos de mierda.
Immigrants feel hope, hate and hunted

3 days ago | hcn.org | Jesús Jank Curbelo |Gretchen King

A month ago in Los Angeles, I watched two women get into a fight in a line at a gas station. They both looked about 30 and roughly the same weight — American vs. Latina. The American said she deserved to go first, before all those shitty Latinos.
Trump administration plans Endangered Species Act rollback

6 days ago | hcn.org | Gretchen King

This story was originally published by The Colorado Sun and is republished here by permission. The Trump administration Wednesday proposed a rollback of Endangered Species Act protections that left Western wildlife advocates sounding gutted but vowing to fight in court, arguing the erasure of decades of habitat defense threatens species from the lynx to black-footed ferrets to cutthroat trout.
Audio: Under the shade of a nurse tree

2 weeks ago | hcn.org | Ruxandra Guidi |Gretchen King

Note: This story is intended to be listened to. Text associated below is simply a transcript of the audio. This is our kid, around her first birthday. It was a long time ago. If she finds out I’m sharing the sounds of her whining and crying, she’ll tell me I’m embarrassing her.
Forest Service pauses commercial huckleberry picking in Gifford Pinchot National Forest

3 weeks ago | hcn.org | Josephine Woolington |Gretchen King

The U.S. Forest Service announced Monday that it will temporarily prohibit commercial picking of huckleberries this summer in Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southwestern Washington. Commercially picked berries have fueled an entire huckleberry industry, flavoring ice cream, sodas, pies, jams, vodkas and wines – at the expense of Yakama Nation tribal members, as detailed in High Country News’ March feature.
The murder, the museum and the monument

3 weeks ago | hcn.org | Kori Suzuki

Violence had broughtthe old man here, and violence would take him away. The blue mountains rose as he walked through the desert in the fading evening light. The powdery soil of an ancient lakebed sank beneath his feet. The man’s name was James Wakasa, and he was a prisoner of the United States. It was April 1943, and the world was at war. Sixteen months earlier, Japanese planes attacked an American naval base in Hawai’i.
Meet the people who train wild horses

3 weeks ago | hcn.org | Elizabeth Whitman

Woolly rumps swayed in unison as two stock trailers rumbled into the Ellensburg, Washington, rodeo grounds. The passengers took in their surroundings, ears flicking and nostrils flaring in the 39-degree air. After a full day of bumping over local roads from Bureau of Land Management corrals in Oregon, the mustangs had finally arrived. Marjie Hicks, 64, watched the horses roll in.
Montana’s youth climate activists aren’t stopping at their landmark court win

3 weeks ago | hcn.org | Nick Mott

Ripley Cunninghamtook the microphone and looked out at an audience of about 350 people in the echoey, ornate rotunda of Montana’s state Capitol, her favorite thrift-store flower pendant around her neck. It was January, the start of the legislative session, and the high school senior, a speech and debate star, was emceeing a statewide climate gathering. “I am comforted in knowing that we have an interconnected community of people fighting for the future of our home,” she said.
Bird flu finds its way into Western wildlife

3 weeks ago | hcn.org | Kylie Mohr

Last fall, a Clallam County, Washington, resident spotted a young male cougar walking slowly through a field on the northern edge of the Olympic Peninsula. It was the middle of the day — a clear sign that something was off — and he was also skinny and weak, dragging his matted tail in the mud. The resident called a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) game warden and Mark Elbroch, puma director of Panthera, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting wild cats globally.
How a crucial homeless shelter in Boise was obstructed by neighbors

3 weeks ago | hcn.org | Natalia Mesa

Gerri-Lynn Graveshas lived in Boise, Idaho, nearly all of her life. But after progressive back pain and a botched surgery caused a series of medical issues, walking became excruciating, and she lost her job. Bills mounted and she could not pay rent. With a small suitcase in hand, in November of 2021, she went to the Interfaith Sanctuary, a homeless shelter in downtown Boise.