How the first Native director of the National Park Service drew from a legacy of federal boarding schools and Indigenous teachings.

State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling.

ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES of being alive on earth in the age of climate catastrophe is that we find ourselves in the peculiar position of mourning the future.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who was banned from nine tribal reservations, will oversee policies uniquely important to ...

He reached into cracks and peered into crevices with a flashlight, hoping to find an endangered marine snail whose shell recently has become California’s state seashell: the black abalone. Seven ...

The day after the OMB directive, the EPA complied, cutting off the disbursement of federal funds for all of its programs.

To reimagine our relationship with wildfire, we must recognize the real value of federal wildland firefighters — and ...

The poet Rachel Richardson learns, through writing and motherhood, to defy fear. Sign up to receive High Country News ’ email newsletters and get on-the-ground reporting and investigations delivered ...

The book and the film used the limits of human bodies to cultivate empathy for the experience of other beings.

To protect our sacred lands and, at minimum, hold the line on what tribes have fought for (and won), there must be a bold ...

The county was supposed to conduct an annual tally of people experiencing homelessness this month. Then disaster struck.

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