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Heard Around the West
If you’re planning to embark on a cross-country trip but worry that air travel might be too ruff on your canine companion, maybe give BARK Air a shot — no, not you, Gov. Kristi Noem, put down that gun! According to FOX KTVU, the airline’s inaugural f
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Smoke Alarm
LAST SUMMER, Carrie Brown-Kornarens spent 10 minutes every week observing birds in her Los Angeles backyard and at nearby Griffith Park. Brown-Kornarens, a ceramicist with a background in graphic design and animation, looked and listened closely for
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#iam The West
RYAN BREEZY (HE/HIM) (NAVAJO/PAIUTE) Indigenous makeup artist and plus-size model Shonto, Arizona Representation matters. I never thought just being me and being in this space would inspire so many. I have been involved in the world of fashion for ov
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The Tundra Provides
FROM ABOVE I saw them: Two little girls, about 7 years old, lying on the tundra, talking. One on her belly, the other on her back. The sun was out. There was a breeze strong enough to keep the mosquitoes away. It was a perfect early fall day in Unala
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A Silicon Rush In The West
ALONG INTERSTATE 17, between Phoenix and the satellite community of Anthem, Arizona, a gleaming construction site stretches across 1,100 acres of open desert. Here, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is building a factory that will
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The Land Of Accessible Child Care
AFTER GEOVANNA Losito’s son was born in the spring of 2021, her mother took care of him while Losito worked remotely. But as her son grew, so did Losito’s worries. Losito knew that soon, her mother, who is disabled, would no longer be able to pick he
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On The Cover
Picoso Farm in Gilroy, California, is still trying to recover from a series of devastating floods. Erik Castro / HCN ■
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The Vision of Little Shell
I’VE THOUGHT ABOUT INDIANS my entire life. I grew up with the vague knowledge my father’s side of the family was Indian — Chippewa, specifically — as my grandmother would speak of it at times. I have a dim memory of being 4 years old and sitting on t
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Lalíik
A MOTHER DOE, flanked by a fawn still in spots, bounds through belly-deep sage at the foot of Lalíik, colonially known as Rattlesnake Mountain. At 3,600 feet, Lalíik is the tallest treeless mountain in the Lower 48. For thousands of years, it’s been
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Memories Of Summer Road Trips
It’s summertime, meaning it’s time to hit the road. On a recent jaunt to an outdoor music show, some friends and I recalled childhood family meanderings around the West, often un-seat-belted in the back of a 1970s gas-guzzler. My family rumbled aroun
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The End Of A Journey
Deer 255, a mule deer that migrated farther than any other deer known to science, died in Wyoming’s Red Desert around noon on April 11. According to researchers with the Wyoming Migration Initiative, the evidence shows that she was just three days in
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Contributors
Erik Castro, a photojournalist from Los Angeles, is a former competitive skateboarder and guitarist in a Seattle band. He is currently based in Santa Rosa, California. Ben Goldfarb is a High Country News correspondent and the author of Crossings: How
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A Deer Corridor Through Sprawl
EVERY SPRING, AROUND 2,000 mule deer traipse through Utah’s Cedar Valley, a broad, sage-dotted flatland some 40 miles south of Salt Lake City. The herd winters in the Lake Mountains, nibbling sagebrush and other forage, and summers around the Oquirrh
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After the Floods
IT WAS RAINING on Dec. 31, 2022, when Maria Narez pulled off Highway 101 at the turnoff for her farm. It had been raining in Prunedale, California, since just after Christmas, and the final half-mile was too muddy to keep driving. She parked on the g
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Letters
To solve the climate crisis, we need facilities like the Goldendale pumped storage project that allow us to store intermittent renewable energy for later use. As a longtime resident of Goldendale, Washington, and lifelong renewable energy advocate, I
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Thank You, Readers!
If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution, please scan the QR code to the right, visit hcn.org/give2hcn, call 800-905-1155 or mail a check to: P.O. Box 1090, Paonia, CO 81428. Anonymous (126) In honor of Chris Andrew In honor of Dee Clo
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Come And Get Your Love
DANICA NAVA LOVES LOVE and writes about it well. An enrolled Chickasaw citizen, she is the first Indigenous rom-com novelist to be published by a mainstream publishing house. She bubbles over with excitement when she talks about her debut novel, The
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Morning Mist
1 Mist veils the apricot branches and trunks—magpies and crows spread across the grass in silence— 2 White flags run uphillfrom the street to a neighbor’s construction site— in this near distance, the flags are tiny flags of surrender— 3 No one can s
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The Inequity Of Heat
ON THE LAST DAY of June 2023, during the hottest summer on record — though perhaps the coolest we’re likely to see this century — the temperature in Phoenix hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit. And for the next 31 days, it kept meeting or exceeding that level
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Do Over
I RECENTLY TOURED a site containing aging oil infrastructure. Atop a peaceful coastal California bluff draped in late-day golden sun stood two oil-storage tanks and one smaller emergency water tank, plus a network of pipes. This is the Ellwood Marine
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After Despair Comes Repair
A NUMBER OF TERMS have been coined in recent years in an effort to make sense of the climate crisis. Language, after all, is a living thing that constantly mutates to keep up with reality, and as our environment changes in unprecedented ways, we stru
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The California Artists Illuminating Kelp
ON THE FIRST DAY I lived in Northern California, I stood on the beach and stared at a golden-green object washed up on the sand — a shining coil with a perfect bulb at one end. It was, I learned, a strand of kelp, and I remember thinking it would mak
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Avian Influencers
WHEREVER YOU LIVE, you have birds. You may even, like me, have a favorite bird. It might be a rarely sighted one that, whenever you see it, makes your heart sing. Or it might be a relatively abundant species whose company you appreciate on the daily.
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Letters
The June 2024 story, “Pronghorns among the panels,” discusses the possible impacts of industrial-scale solar farms near Farmington, New Mexico. Missing in this article is the potential siting of solar panels in already-developed areas right in front
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A Foodie Award For HCN
Mention the James Beard Foundation, and folks think of chic restaurants, white chef’s hats and hand-plated hors d'oeuvres. My favorite James Beard Award-winner is much more down-home. Los Hernandez is a humble eatery housed in a whitewashed, cinder-b
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from Underworlds: An Elegy
Jay Hopler, 1970-2022 What I didn’t know when you chose to die At home is that your dying would become My compass line, my all of life, that I Would be the only midnight one to whom You’d cry from your body’s commotion and The one who’d haul your baf
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One Fish Per Panel
IF YOU DRIVE EAST on Highway 95 through the Idaho Panhandle, the Clearwater River will be on your right, winding its way slowly and surely toward Lapwai, Idaho, on the Nez Perce Reservation. The river, which is the largest tributary to the Snake Rive
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#iam The West
TYLER MATLOCK (HE/HIM) Third-generation Coloradan, health-care professional and outdoor athlete Denver, Colorado Being a multigenerational Coloradan means that I’m a staple here. My mom and my grandparents walked the same streets that I walk in Park
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A Heartfelt ‘Thank You’ To All Our Sustainers’ Club Members!
Anonymous (168) In honor of Sarah Bartelt In honor of Theresa Cardenas In honor of Nicky Conroy In honor of Cycle Farm In honor of Patrick Finley In honor of Mayre Flowers In honor of Ray Haertel In honor of immigrants and migrants In honor of the jo
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