High Country News stories
Proper fire funding continues to elude Congress
Utah national monuments face dramatic reductions
In rural Colorado, can art provide an economic engine?
Advice from Moab’s mayor: Be careful what you wish for
In Grand Staircase-Escalante, coal and fossils lie side by side
Scandals pile up for Interior secretary
Can Utah’s centrists provide refuge for the disillusioned?
In Congress, an effort to curtail national monuments
The battle over Alaska refuge oil reignites under Trump
A last-minute health care deal courts Western lawmakers
A military legacy loosens its grip on a landscape
Forest Service leadership lands in Southern hands
As sportsmen watch Zinke, disillusionment replaces hope
Forest Service confronts a popular hot springs’ overuse
The West’s latest prospecting frenzy? Extraterrestrial gold.
The quieter monument battles to watch
There’s still time to comment on marine monument review
In California, a bipartisan win for cap and trade
Will Congress fix wildfire funding this year?
Neighbors clash over a Colorado chicken farm
A fun romp through the atomic West
Can Wyoming learn from Utah’s public land mistakes?
Is Yucca Mountain back from the dead?
Local power gets results for Thompson Divide
Who will pay for unsexy repairs in national parks?
Sportsmen pull public-lands politics to the center
Montana wilderness bill reflects compromise and care