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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: ...

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

HCN prides itself on delving into messy news stories, and in this issue, we do so quite literally, digging into the garbage business via a controversial proposed landfill in Oregon. Life at the Forest ...

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 ...

Some people stuck at the U.S.-Mexico border are forced to risk their lives attempting to cross the desert. High Country News ’ weekly email newsletters keep you up-to-date with our latest news and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Sign up for High Country News’ twice weekly newsletter to read more on-the-ground reporting and in-depth investigations from across the Western U.S. It’s a pinniped pup boom! At Drakes Beach on Point ...

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