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Wildland firefighters struggle with homelessness
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Alaska Native villages band together to keep the Yukon River’s wild salmon afloat
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‘As a unified voice, we are unstoppable — and we can manage the river better.’
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Decolonizing Idaho’s road signs
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A new effort will add Indigenous history to historical markers across the state.
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Can Hatch green chiles outlast the climate crisis?
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Growers of New Mexico’s iconic crop wrestle with drought, water rights and labor shortages.
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Coming out as trans in the rural West
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A high schooler’s photo essay documents what it’s like to go through intense change in a place that never changes.
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150 years ago, 19 Chinese Angelenos were murdered in California
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In October 1871, a frenzied mob was responsible for the largest lynching in U.S. history.
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Wildfire smoke pushes migrating birds hundreds of miles out of their way
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‘I was glued to my computer for days, trying to figure out what these birds were doing, because it was so clearly, obviously, not normal.’
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Nevada’s Thacker Pass highlights how federal courts routinely dismiss Indigenous concerns
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‘These legal systems are not set up for Indigenous people at all.’
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How tribal leaders want Chuck Sams to lead the Park Service
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The Umatilla leader would be the first Native person in charge of the agency, which has a thorny history with tribes.
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What’s going on with redistricting in the West?
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Yurij Rudensky of the Brennan Center breaks down the politics — and potential issues — Western states face in this year’s redistricting process.
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Hmong Americans in Northern California fight wildfire — and distrust
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Wary of local authorities, a community forms an ad-hoc firefighting force to defend its property.
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How arson factors into California’s wildfires
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While it may grab headlines, the actual sparks are much more complex.
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Keeping honest about what we burn and why.
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Black entrepreneurs built beach havens in California. Racism shut them down.
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The hidden history of Santa Monica’s Black coastal enclaves.
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7 statistics that illuminate the housing crisis
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Headwaters Economics shines a light on record-breaking costs in the West.
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Descendants of those enslaved by Native tribes are gaining political momentum. Here’s a primer on the issues surrounding Freedmen and tribal recognition.
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The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
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Wildfire smoke pushes migrating birds hundreds of miles out of their way
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How tribal leaders want Chuck Sams to lead the Park Service
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Hmong Americans in Northern California fight wildfire — and distrust
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The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
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More national parks won’t solve overcrowding
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The lack of diversity in outdoor rec is systematic and disconcerting
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See where PFAS pollution has been confirmed in the West
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Western states lag behind in both monitoring and regulating the class of ‘forever chemicals.’
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Climate change increases rare earth elements in Colorado’s Snake River
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A new study suggests lower stream flows as a primary culprit.
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‘Deadbeat dams’ and their impact on cold-water ecosystems
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As California mulls water storage, a new study adds nuance to cold-water conservation.
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A California county spars over water, marijuana law and race
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Tasked to map an enigmatic aquifer for future water management, scientists confront political and scientific uncertainty.
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California oil spill contaminates restored wetland
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The Talbert Marsh is refuge to at least 90 species of shorebirds, and now it’s slicked with oil.
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Collecting seeds to restore prairie grasslands
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‘These youth are going to be able to take ownership of healing the land at Fort Belknap.’
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Just how fat are the fat bears?
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Katmai National Park and Preserve’s famous bears from Fat Bear Week are helping provide some answers.
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Public Lands
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Bears Ears is back — but don’t celebrate just yet
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Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk unpacks the deeper implications — and limitations — of Biden’s monuments proclamation.
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Where do public lands factor into the homelessness crisis?
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As the housing crisis in the West deepens, more unhoused people are making a home outside.
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The public lands that kept us sane
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In honor of National Public Lands Day, High Country News staff reflect on access to spaces across the West.
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The time of the Indigenous critic has arrived
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Now that the industry is finally greenlighting Indigenous films and TV, Indigenous critics ought to lead the conversation.
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Marilyn Vann becomes the first person of Freedmen status in Cherokee Nation government
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A retired engineer and Freedmen activist, Vann joins the tribe’s Environmental Protection Commission.
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The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
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Once again, the media has excluded Indigenous peoples from our own story.
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Communities
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Home after fire: A new housing model aims to give kids stability
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Wildfires often hit low-income, minority families the hardest. Talent, Oregon, offers a home-grown solution to the displacement that follows.
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How community control of housing and land can help solve the housing crisis
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Communities are turning to land trusts and real estate cooperatives as possible solutions.
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Indigenous women tackle college during a pandemic
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How three Native American students took on the challenges of their first year away from home.
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Reaching across Colorado’s racial frontiers
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Jenny Shank’s new story collection ‘Mixed Company’ reveals racial fault lines in the Centennial State.
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Family, culture, politics and heartbreak in the modern West
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Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut novel ponders endings from beginnings.
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Avocados, ants, aardvarks and us
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In his new book, Douglas Chadwick shows how the interconnectedness of all life is the key to inspiring change.
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