As Western mountain towns struggle with overtourism, Jackson Hole tries out a new plan to mitigate visitors’ impacts.

Around the Colville Reservation, nearly everyone has vivid memories of fire. The blazes’ names — Devil’s Elbow, North Star, Tunk Block, Summit Hill, Cold Springs and Chewah — are recalled and recited ...

Amid the disarray, High Country News set out to chart the first 60 days of this DOGE-induced disorder. We found the kind of bedlam that not only destabilizes the government and demolishes the services ...

Keaton Peters is a freelance journalist based in Austin, Texas, covering climate change and the energy transition. keatonpeters.com BlueSky and X: @keatonpeters High Country News ’ weekly email ...

But now, the pressure is on for co-ops in Colorado to invest in renewable energy, following passage of state laws starting in 2019 that require utilities to slash their greenhouse gas emissions by 80% ...

En 1968, los científicos Elmer Robinson y R.C. Robbins, del Instituto de Investigación de Stanford, elaboraron un estudio fundamental para la asociación comercial American Petroleum Institute, que ...

During a moment in the car, I imagine when he was thoroughly appreciating all that city life can offer, he asked his auntie, “Do people go ugruk hunting here?” High Country News ’ weekly email ...

David Roderick is the author of Blue Colonial and The Americans. His poetry has been recognized with the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, an NEA, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. He lives in ...

Murphy Woodhouse is the Mountain West News Bureau reporter at Boise State Public Radio, where he covers wildfire and other issues affecting the region. He grew up in Idaho, and came back in 2023 after ...

BRYCE SPARE (HE/THEY) AND TUCK (GOOD DOG) Lead backcountry ranger in Payette National Forest (recently fired and reinstated), ultra runner and backcountry skiier McCall, Idaho ...

It’s about intergenerational caretaking — the recognition that there are no isolated moments of history, that we are obliged to pass on a world of hope and possibility to future generations.

This season, purple hammock headgear was all the rage in the little town of Pullman, Washington. Just ask Walter, the white-tailed deer that became an international internet celebrity after his ...