Brent Davis thinks he grows the tastiest tomatoes. For four generations, his family has farmed and ranched near the eastern shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, 45 minutes north of Salt Lake City. He ...

Farmers, tribes and environmental advocates in rural Oregon raise alarms about the empty promises of biofuels.

Copies of the original plan still exist, one of which sits in the Los Angeles Public Library, where it fell into the hands of the artist and video game designer Alice Bucknell. For Bucknell, the plan ...

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To go on strike is to risk your life; the classist elitism will threaten to crush you and your body even as you lay it down before the machines, both real and metaphorical. Labor leaders under every ...

This article appeared in the March 2025 print edition of the magazine with the headline “‘Rights of nature’ laws take root in the West.” ...

She lured Tiptoe from his hutch with bell peppers, covered him with a blanket and, with the help of family members, hoisted all 175 pounds of the tortoise — which is a lot of tortoise — into the back ...

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Laurel Flores Fantauzzo is the author of the young adult novel My Heart Underwater and the nonfiction book The First Impulse. Sign up to receive High Country News ’ email newsletters and get ...

Jenny Qi is the author of Focal Point, winner of the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. Sign up to receive High ...

In the months before the Navajo Generating Station closed, many observers prognosticated economic doom for nearby Page, Arizona, population 7,500 or so. The plant employed 463 full-time, high-wage ...

Amal Ahmed is a freelance journalist based in southwest Washington. She’s previously covered environmental and climate policy from Texas. Sign up to receive High Country News ’ email newsletters and ...