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The emerald ash borer is killing the native tree. How do we make the most of the time while it’s still here?| High Country News
Reconciliation means meeting a landscape on its own terms. The post Inventing habitats appeared first on High Country News.| High Country News
La reconciliación significa encontrarse con un paisaje en sus propios términos The post Inventando hábitats appeared first on High Country News.| High Country News
Comments from readers. The post Letters to the Editor, October 2025 appeared first on High Country News.| High Country News
Leaving parks open during a shutdown neglects the mandate of future enjoyment. The post Interior is failing to conserve national parks appeared first on High Country News.| High Country News
The first crack in the area’s suspension on new housing that relies on groundwater appears. The post Phoenix subdivision builds move ahead, despite water concerns appeared first on High Country News.| High Country News
Across the West, lawmakers are skipping over the will of voters and yanking fluoride. The post Want fluoride in the water? Too bad. appeared first on High Country News.| High Country News
The Border Lands Conservation Act gives the Department of Homeland Security the power to waive myriad federal laws, including the Wilderness Act, under the pretense of border security. The post Sen. Mike Lee’s new bill permits ‘tactical infrastructure’ in wilderness areas appeared first on High Country News.| High Country News
Research, wildlife and conservation are in the crosshairs. The post More than 2,000 jobs could be cut at Interior during shutdown appeared first on High Country News.| High Country News
This California county has some of the nation’s strictest protections for agricultural land, but developers are using a new exemption to house people who work the land. The post Ventura County is turning former farmland into affordable housing for farmworkers appeared first on High Country News.| High Country News
The emerald ash borer is killing the native tree. How do we make the most of the time while it’s still here?| High Country News
How early settlers unwittingly drove their nemesis extinct, and what it means for us today| High Country News
“You don’t miss your water till your well runs dry,” an old blues song mourns, and ambitious developers and would-be homebuyers in Phoenix, Arizona, would probably agree, now that planned subdivisions have been curtailed owing to the region’s lack of groundwater. Elsewhere, affordable housing is being built in Ventura County, California, where farmworkers have long struggled to find decent housing. Like mourners at a bedside vigil, tree-lovers watch as the Oregon ash succumbs to invas...| High Country News
The Chinese immigrants who built the Transcontinental Railroad quietly endured racism and violence, fostering a complicated legacy for Chinese-Americans.| High Country News
The administration and Congress divert funds away from conservation.| High Country News
Around the West, community land trusts are helping people recover from disaster — and prepare for the next one.| High Country News
How fire and water managers can prepare.| High Country News
Labor organizer Rosalinda Guillen explains how participatory democracy gives workers political power.| High Country News
As fire season ramps up, thousands of Forest Service firefighting positions are vacant.| High Country News
As public media is threatened after cuts from Trump administration, Indigenous radio also face threats to how they preserve and grow language.| High Country News
Last month’s terminations cut employees who serve critical support roles on fires.| High Country News
