Counting flowers to read the saguaro’s future (Aug 14, 2025 08:00)
Saguaros are struggling to cope with extreme weather, monitoring studies reveal. The po...
How community assemblies kindle advocacy and solutions (Aug 13, 2025 08:00)
Labor organizer Rosalinda Guillen explains how participatory democracy gives workers po...
Public lands and wildlife turn to stopgap solutions (Aug 8, 2025 08:00)
In the face of federal cuts, volunteers, businesses and others help keep programs afloa...
The Trump team sets double standard on migratory bird rules (Aug 7, 2025 11:00)
The administration said it will go hunting for cases of wind energy companies unintenti...
How to become a bird (Aug 5, 2025 08:00)
A Montana man finds kinship in living with pigeons. The post How to become a bird appea...
Searching for the next generation of American kestrels (Aug 4, 2025 17:46)
Around California’s Mount Diablo, chicks are hard to find. The post Searching for the n...
‘Help is not on the way’ (Aug 4, 2025 08:47)
As fire season ramps up, thousands of Forest Service firefighting positions are vacant....
What the presence of sheep means to the Diné (Aug 1, 2025 08:00)
How to look at Milton Snow’s historical images of a livestock genocide on the Navajo Na...
A hotshot’s search for belonging among the flames (Aug 1, 2025 07:55)
A wildland firefighter reckons with the male-dominated culture found on the fireline. T...
How one California community is turning an old oil field into protected habitat (Aug 1, 2025 07:50)
Despite federal policies complicating Fullerton’s conservation success story. The post ...
Get to know the American kestrel (Aug 1, 2025 07:45)
This small falcon faces an existential crisis. Can nest boxes help? The post Get to kno...
Native languages need radio, which is at risk of being lost (Aug 1, 2025 07:40)
As public media is threatened after cuts from Trump administration, Indigenous radio al...
Death row inspired this art exhibit (Aug 1, 2025 07:35)
By painting their final meal before execution, an artist humanized people sentenced to ...
911’s hidden emergency (Aug 1, 2025 07:30)
A former firefighter makes the case for community paramedicine in the age of climate ch...
Flow like the San Juan (Aug 1, 2025 07:25)
If western rivers have been recognized as legal persons, they must be queer and disable...
Being and Time (Aug 1, 2025 07:20)
A poem by Dana Levin. The post Being and Time appeared first on High Country News .
‘My vision was to build a healthy ecosystem for all who live in it’ (Aug 1, 2025 07:15)
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region. The pos...