Thirty-seven wolves died in Washington in 2024, including four killed for preying on livestock, one by a cougar, one dying ...

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If you could walk the ocean floor off the coast of Cape Arago in Oregon in the summer, you’d find yourself in the mysterious green depths of a forest of kelp. Look up, and youd ...

Scientists describe how they’re preparing for the upcoming field season despite the challenges. High Country News ’ weekly ...

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Documents show Interior rejected a union contract for employees at BLM headquarters days before the inauguration.

Migration pathways for animals will be further fragmented by the new additions to the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In her May 2025 editor’s note (“ The social contract ”) Jennifer Sahn said that transferring public land, or any “public good,” to private hands should be considered “un-American.” As a student of ...

Joan Naviyuk Kane’s poetry collections include The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, Milk Black Carbon, and Dark Traffic. A 2025 USA Fellow, she recently co-edited Circumpolar Connections: ...

Cal Solar has been installing panels on homes and businesses in Grass Valley and surrounding Nevada County for the past 25 years. In 2019, it became a worker-owned cooperative, and Ortegren went from ...

Lisa Elmaleh is an analog photographer, teacher and humanitarian. She has been active in the migrant justice community since 2020 and is the recipient of a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. High Country ...

Aguilar’s portraits captured her harmony with nature, blurring the line between human and desert. As a naturist, I’ve been drawn to her nude imitations of rocks, trees and wind. What knowledge do we ...