Workers are pushing for improved training and safety standards to help avoid falls, electrocution and equipment failure.

They’re among the region’s most despised species, but some tribes, researchers and landowners are racing to save them.

With climate change bringing larger, more frequent and more destructive fires, resource advisors are needed to guide firefighters in areas where large wildfires have been uncommon, including ...

On that mid-October day last year, the Episcopal Church in Wyoming returned close to 200 cultural items to the Northern Arapaho Tribe. For over 80 years, the church was the steward of the collection, ...

HCN has covered the lands, wildlife and communities of the Western U.S. for more than 50 years. Get to know the West better by signing up to receive HCN’s on-the-ground reporting and investigations in ...

Los saguaros pueden crecer hasta 16 pies en un siglo, y el abuelo era fácilmente cuatro veces más grande que yo, con alrededor de una docena de brazos que se extendían hacia el cielo, desafiando la ...

Saguaros are known for growing slowly, only about a quarter of an inch during their first two years. By the time he was 70, Grandpa was likely 6 feet tall and producing flowers and fruit. By his first ...

This article appeared in the January 2025 print edition of the magazine with the headline “#IAMTHEWEST.” ...

Voters fill in ballots on Election Day 2024 on the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara. Credit: Amy Katz/ZUMA Press Wire via Alamy This month, hundreds of political electees are ...

C. Dale Young practices medicine and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. In early 2025, Four Way Books will publish his Building the Perfect Animal: New and Selected Poems. Sign up ...

Jordan Dresser is a member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe on the Wind River Indian Reservation. He holds a bachelor’s in journalism and master’s in museum studies. He is a former tribal chairman and ...

HCN has covered the lands, wildlife and communities of the Western U.S. for more than 50 years. Get to know the West better by signing up to receive HCN’s on-the-ground reporting and investigations in ...