Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist, leads a coalition that’s quietly organizing a county-level rejection of the Antiquities Act.

Molly Montgomery is a freelance writer from Santa Fe. She covered Rio Arriba County and agricultural issues at the Rio Grande Sun in Española, where she received a New Mexico Press Association award ...

The Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists, a Tucson nonprofit, made a video about nurse trees — native ones like mesquites, ...

In challenging times, it’s good to remember that many Westerners remain determined to create a better world. In this issue, we learn about the young Montanans who successfully sued for the right to a ...

U.S. Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in the West. Trump’s radical upheaval is accelerating the death of a dying art.

Volunteers sacrifice time, energy and money to help mustangs removed from the range find homes. Can they convince people to take them?

Elizabeth Whitman is a writer based in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Cascade PBS, Cosmopolitan and Nature, among other publications. High Country News ’ weekly email newsletters keep ...

In August 2023, the judge ruled against the state, which appealed to the Montana Supreme Court. When the court affirmed the ruling in December, Held became the first case in the country in which youth ...

With climate change threatening Indigenous lifeways in Alaska, these four young women are devoting their careers to their preservation.

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