High Country News - Current Issue

Of moose and mandolins

Terray Sylvester — 2009-07-08T20:30:46Z

High Country News reader and EPA scientist Elaine Lai worked with Native peoples in the Alaskan Arctic on a climate change witness program.

Northward

David Oates — 2009-07-07T22:14:12Z

The unexpected loveliness of the song of the varied thrush reminds the author that the birds are on the move, driven by climate change.

The Renewable Energy Landscape

Terray Sylvester — 2009-06-29T16:41:38Z

Maps, charts and text locate the nation's major renewable energy resources and some big projects on Western public land.

Renewables: The Final Frontier

Randy Udall — 2009-06-26T16:07:16Z

Vaclav Smil is a historian who exemplifies Vulcan-style logic and skepticism when it comes to easy solutions to energy problems.

From Pickups to PV

Daniel Kraker — 2009-06-24T15:14:19Z

Utility brings solar power to far-flung Navajos

Thinking Past the Moment

Sarah Gilman — 2009-06-22T15:12:56Z

The Sierra Club's Carl Zichella discusses the balancing act involved in finding the best -- and least environmentally sensitive -- places to put big renewable energy projects

Growing Away from Big Coal

Susan Moran — 2009-07-02T20:40:27Z

In Colorado and New Mexico, some rural electric cooperatives are quietly fighting to get more of their power from local and renewable sources.

Modern-day La Mancha

Jonathan Thompson — 2009-06-17T16:19:31Z

Are wind-turbine-fighting environmentalists re-enacting Don Quixote's crusade against windmills -- while ignoring the real monster of climate change?

Visitors from underground

Sarah Gilman, Diane Sylvain and Jodi Peterson — 2009-06-16T16:05:57Z

Spelunkers visit High Country News; correction; obituaries for N.W. Grosse-Rhode and Ramon Mena Owens.

Let's Get Small

Judith Lewis — 2009-06-17T17:13:16Z

Can 'hamster power' -- distributed generation and small-scale renewable energy projects -- save the West, and the world?

And you think times are tough

Jaime O'Neill — 2009-06-18T22:22:48Z

The articles in old American Heritage magazines remind us that life in the West used to be a whole lot harder than it is.

See you in July

Jodi Peterson — 2009-06-18T22:06:19Z

High Country News skips an issue; visitors; Ray Ring wins prize; correction.

The other Trail of Tears

Brian Kevin — 2009-07-09T18:12:54Z

British author Brian Schofield pulls no punches in his account of a tragic episode in American history, Selling Your Father’s Bones: America’s 140-year War Against the Nez Perce Tribe.

Natural comfort

Ana Maria Spagna — 2009-06-05T17:15:05Z

It seems romantic to die alone in the wild, until you begin to lose the people you love

Rise up swinging

Gabriel Furshong — 2009-06-09T22:17:18Z

Twenty-year-old Duran “Junior” Caferro wants to be a good father, encourage healthcare reform – and knock down whoever comes up against him in the boxing ring.