Written Stories
STORIES
Denver's Street-Smart Prairie Dogs
Smithsonian Magazine
Researchers explore why members of one species are thriving in urban areas while rural populations dwindle.
Art for Conservation
High Country News (cover story, text and some photos)
After conquering rocks, trails and mountains, weekend warriors have found a new hobby: Climbing the West's big trees.
Super rodents build super habitat
High Country News
In the Southwest's Chihuahuan Desert, prairie dogs and kangaroo rats provide food and shelter for a host of other animals.
Love for the clay-loving buckwheat
High Country News (text and photos)
In western Colorado, a coalition has rallied to buy habitat for one of the world's rarest plants.
The magnificent obsession of sheep herding
High Country News (text and photos)
In rural Colorado, border collies and their handlers compete in a Western tradition, sheep dog trials.
High Country News and ESPN.com
California's largest lake, the Salton Sea, is on the verge of ecological collapse.
Getting fresh with the West's groundwater
High Country News
A new desalination technology uses the sun and your air conditioner to create fresh water.
High Country News
Environmentalists and Fish and Wildlife battle over the return of the jaguar to Southwestern borderlands.
Making a killing to save Arizona's desert bighorn sheep
High Country News
In order to save bighorn sheep, wildlife officials kill a mountain lion, and more sheep.
A gold mine in the Colorado wilderness?
High Country News
The owners of a 1938 mining claim in the Uncompaghre wilderness plan to start digging for gold.
Border restoration's odd couple
High Country News
In southwestern Arizona, the U.S. Border Patrol is working with Cocopah Indians and environmentalists to restore a degraded, crime-ridden wetland called Hunters Hole.
High Country News (photo essay, text Jonathan Thompson, HCN managing editor)
In southern Colorado, conservation groups find a way to save 9,000 high-altitude acres from second-home development.
Colorado mountain town raises millions to save meadow
High Country News
In Telluride, townsfolk raise $50 million to preserve open space, but the land's owner is fighting condemnation.
High Country News (photos)
High Country News photographer Morgan Heim joins the International League of Conservation Photographers to document the gasfields and the wildlands around Pinedale, Wyo.
Cluster housing theory better than reality
The Daily Camera
Fugees' Pras Michel screens documentary
The Rocky Mountain News
Nature clubs offer backstage pass to wilderness
Denver Yourhub (online and print edition)
