Rebecca Worby

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High Country News stories

Proper fire funding continues to elude Congress

Utah national monuments face dramatic reductions

In rural Colorado, can art provide an economic engine?

Advice from Moab’s mayor: Be careful what you wish for

In Grand Staircase-Escalante, coal and fossils lie side by side

Scandals pile up for Interior secretary

Can Utah’s centrists provide refuge for the disillusioned?

In Congress, an effort to curtail national monuments

The battle over Alaska refuge oil reignites under Trump

A last-minute health care deal courts Western lawmakers

A military legacy loosens its grip on a landscape

Forest Service leadership lands in Southern hands

As sportsmen watch Zinke, disillusionment replaces hope

Forest Service confronts a popular hot springs’ overuse

The West’s latest prospecting frenzy? Extraterrestrial gold.

The quieter monument battles to watch

There’s still time to comment on marine monument review

In California, a bipartisan win for cap and trade

Will Congress fix wildfire funding this year?

Neighbors clash over a Colorado chicken farm

A fun romp through the atomic West

Can Wyoming learn from Utah’s public land mistakes?

Is Yucca Mountain back from the dead?

Local power gets results for Thompson Divide

Who will pay for unsexy repairs in national parks?

Sportsmen pull public-lands politics to the center

Montana wilderness bill reflects compromise and care

Sportsmen take aim at law enforcement bill 

In Wyoming, a cautious public lands victory