In 2019, facing growing pushback from environmental groups and activists like the Chittoors, the state mandated that regulators consider the public health and environmental impacts of oil and gas development.
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A New Documentary About Farming in Southern Colorado Confronts Water Scarcity in the West
by Natalia Mesa for High Country News
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The American Climate Corps Takes Flight, With Most Jobs Based in the West
by Brooke Larsen, High Country News June 6, 2024
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Lesbian Lizards: How the New Mexico Whiptail Became a Queer Icon
All members of the lizard species are female and reproduce asexually through a process called parthenogenesis.
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How a Durango Mobile-Home Park Saved Its Community From a Corporate Buyout
In southwest Colorado, a cooperative and a land trust partnered to preserve affordable housing.
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The Miller Moth is Hard to Love, But it Deserves Our Respect
By Samuel Shaw for High Country News
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Wildfires Are Burning Away The West’s Snow
A new study finds wildfires are burning more high elevation areas and dramatically impacting the West’s snowpack as a result.
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How Oil Companies Endlessly Avoid Cleanup Costs
In Colorado, a sale of 110 low-producing oil wells illustrates a hot potato effect, and how funding remediation eventually comes from the public.
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What’s wrong with the Manitou Cliff Dwellings Museum and Preserve?
by Miles W. Griffis, High Country News