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I think of this issue as a sort of progress report on three of the biggest issues facing the Western United States: climate change, homelessness and the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Barely a week into his administration, President Joe Biden hit pause on selling leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands. Of course, as Carl Segerstrom tells us, old hands in the West are fully aware that doesn’t mean the drilling will stop. It does, however, signal a welcome shift in policy.
Balbir Singh drives a tractor in Karm Baim’s orchard in Gridley, California, where Punjabi American people have farmed for more than a century.
High Country News welcomed new interns in January: Wufei Yu from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Surya Milner from Bozeman, Montana.
As a young boy from Beijing, Yu wanted to write about sports: “I started to not just contend with the game itself, and the news itself which is all about scores, who scored how many goals but the personal memoirs of athletes,” he said.
Wufei Yu at Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
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After moving to New York to attend Columbia University’s journalism school in 2018, Yu continued writing about sports, with a bent toward outdoor adventure. He soon ditched the city for the deserts of New Mexico, working as a fellow for