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The public lands that kept us sane
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A Q&A with Nick Martin, HCN s new editor on the Indigenous Affairs Desk — High Country News – Know the West
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This month, we look at how Westerners cope with wildfires: In Idaho, small towns clash with the Forest Service over how to manage the forest, while in Oregon, people left homeless by fires find refuge in a Medford hotel. Alaska Natives respond to food insecurity by building biomass-fueled greenhouses, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes announce a plan concerning the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people. Water remains a perennial problem: Phoenix, Arizona, is outgrowing its supply, while California’s new groundwater sustainability act is getting off to a troubled start. Asian Americans flock to gun shops after recent attacks, Montana activists continue to fight for racial justice, and cannabis growers use more energy than you’d expect. Finally, we talk to Michelle Nijhuis about her new book and review two other intriguing volumes “Red Nation Rising” and “Finding the Mother Tree.”
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PROTEST AND PROVOCATION
The 2010s were marked by growing tensions across the West, as right-wing organizations rebelled against the person and policies of President Barack Obama, and a diverse coalition of liberal-minded activists came together to fight extractive energy projects, climate change, and racial and economic injustice.
Galvanized by the election of our first African American president and connected by new social media tools, hundreds of right-wing protesters descended on the Nevada ranch of Cliven Bundy in 2014. Bundy had already made a name for himself for refusing to pay over $1 million in grazing fees for his use of federal lands. Two years later, an armed militia led by Bundy’s son, Ammon, seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters in eastern Oregon, demanding that public lands managed by the federal government be turned over to the states. That conflict lasted 40 days and resulted in the death of one militia member, numerous arres
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
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