The same federal law under which four protected wilderness areas are designated in the mountains above Taos — the Latir Peak, Columbine-Hondo, and Wheeler Peak wildernesses, and Taos Pueblo s Blue
The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests’ Gunnison Ranger District, in partnership with Western Colorado University, will be hosting a public field trip related to the Taylor Park Vegetation
In HCN’s first-ever “Archives Issue,” we examine the West through a variety of historical lenses. In one of our features, we meet a New Mexico woman who always wondered how her family got from rural China to Albuquerque. We rummage through natural archives, from ice cores, tree rings and pack rat middens to parasite burrows in thousand-year-old oysters. We see Oklahoma through the eyes of the first female Native American photographer and learn about LGBTQ+ life in LA from the 1970s onward. We visit archives devoted to specialized subjects: Idaho’s Black history, Rocky Mountain skiing, beer making in Oregon and everyday life in the pandemic. We also ask uncomfortable questions: Who is buried in the unmarked graves at a former Indigenous boarding school? And when is a cliff dwelling not a cliff dwelling? (Spoiler: When it’s in Manitou Springs, Colorado, and its stones were taken from a faraway ruin and reassembled to create a kitschy tourist trap.)