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High Country News

August Vol. 57, No. 8
Magazine

High Country News is the nation's leading source of reporting on the Western United States. Through in-depth reporting, High Country News covers the West’s social, political and ecological issues.

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Know the West.

The Choice

LETTERS • High Country News is dedicated to independent journalism, informed debate and discourse in the public interest. We welcome letters through digital media and the post. Send us a letter, find us on social media, or email us at editor@hcn.org.

From oil field to oasis • Federal policies complicate a conservation success story in California.

Get to know the American kestrel • This small falcon faces an existential crisis. Can nest boxes help?

Being and Time

The big digital buildup • Data centers threaten the West’s power grids and water supplies.

Indigenous languages on the airwaves • Cuts to public radio endanger Native stations and language preservation efforts.

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THE PRESENCE of SHEEP • How to look at historical images of a livestock genocide on the Navajo Nation.

BURNED • A FORMER HOTSHOT RECKONS WITH THE CULTURE OF FIREFIGHTING, AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR FOREST HEALTH.

Food for thought • Artist Julie Green painted 1,000 final meals served to prisoners on death row. It forced me to think about capital punishment and challenge my own assumptions.

No one gets left behind • In the face of the climate crisis and a strained 911 system, community paramedic programs are helping vulnerable people.

My friend, the San Juan • If rivers can be legal persons, then surely they are queer and disabled.

Heard Around the West • Tips about Western oddities are appreciated and often shared in this column. Write heard@hcn.org.

#IAM THE WEST

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