In this special issue, HCN partners with the Food & Environment Reporting Network to untangle the web of food production in the Western U.S., tracing it from the people who raise our food — the ...

High Country News and the Food & Environment Reporting Network ventured to find out.

The very timely article “ The big digital buildup ” (August 2025) was in my hands a day after the Tucson City Council voted down, by unanimous approval, Project Blue, which would have annexed desert ...

The Department of Interior has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C., as “the ...

Madrid was once a booming coal town. At radio camp, its youngest inhabitants had big questions about its past — and present.

The Trump administration, however, is poised to divert hundreds of millions of dollars away from LWCF land purchases and spend it instead on routine maintenance at national parks and other federal ...

THE MOTUS NETWORK was the brainchild of Philip Taylor, a biologist at Acadia University in Nova Scotia. Automated radio telemetry was already being used underwater to track salmonids, and Taylor ...

Around the West, community land trusts are helping people recover from disaster — and prepare for the next one.

Albert Sommers, a cattle rancher and former Wyoming speaker of the House, understands DeWitt’s concerns. After Roberts’ actions with the wolf became public in early 2024, he defended Roberts’ ...

A wildfire rarely creates its own tornado, or pyro-vortex. (Fire whirls, a fire tornado’s little brother, are more common and are smaller, briefer and less intense.) Two key ingredients must first be ...

Wildfires like this are increasingly affecting water supplies across the U.S. and creating a compounding crisis that experts in water, utilities and emergency management are only beginning to wrestle ...