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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seems like Westerners always want more. Take the already shrinking wetlands of the endangered Great Salt Lake, which a quasi-governmental agency is determined to industrialize. Or southwestern ...