Amid mounting drought, changing federal leadership and stalled state negotiations, new federal proposals aim to chart a forward path.

I’ve often thought of jeans as “sky pants,” trousers woven from cotton clouds. Jeans are the wild blue yonder above the ...

On a chilly, late-October morning, this team, led by Mark Hereford of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, walked up a ...

The fire — the largest in New Mexico’s history — burned 341,725 acres, and it’s been a significant blow to the remote agricultural communities affected by it and an already precarious way of life.

They couldn’t afford land there, though, so in the late 1980s, they bought a starter home near Lake Arrowhead, in another part of the mountains. They already knew that racism was alive and thriving in ...

As Exponent II became a leader in Mormon feminist thought, it posed an existential threat to a church where men are viewed as the heads of the household and holders of the priesthood. “What Exponent ...

In July 2014, a few hours south of Farmington, “Indian rolling” in Albuquerque left two dead. “Anti-Indianism in New Mexico has a particular flavor,” said Melanie Yazzie. In 1880, an intoxicated ...

Salmon swim up a small creek above where a dam once stood. Credit: Paul Robert Wolf Wilson/High Country News Three fish biologists were searching the shallows for shadows. On a chilly, late ...

The masked marauders are out in force! Batten down the hatches: An unidentified woman living in Poulsbo, Washington, had to call 911 after an army of around 100 raccoons surrounded her home. According ...

This steep slope in Oregon’s Coast Range is littered with ruddy dead branches and freshly cut stumps, but at least it offers sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean. Until recently, the view was blocked ...

185,000 acres Combined extent of the Pack Trail and Elk fires in western and northern Wyoming as of Oct. 21, when Pack Trail was 62% contained and Elk only 48%. The blazes broke out in September, ...

Daniel O’Neil is a freelance journalist who reports on forestry and other environmental issues in Oregon and Washington through words and photos. He lives on the north Oregon coast. Sign up to receive ...