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Writers on the Range The opinion service to publications all over the West began with foundation help in Montana in 1994, but the two founders, Karl Hess and John Baden, threw up their hands after four years and offered it to High Country News, in 1998 for free. The paper, then led by Ed and Betsy Marston, thought twice about adding something new that would require money and person-power to restart. Dave Marston But HCN contributor John McBride contributed $34,000 to give the opinion service liftoff, and staffer Paul Larmer, who would go on to become executive director at HCN, was picked in 1998 to cultivate grassroots Westerners to write about Western issues. ....
Friends, A year and a half ago, we set out with backpacks full of ambition on a quest to raise $10 million to strengthen our journalism and transform HCN into a modern, digitally savvy newsroom. We needed funds well beyond our annual budget to deploy enough staff and technology to cover the West’s growing news deserts, and to bring even more readers reliable reporting so they could remain informed. It was a lofty goal, but we were buoyed by our 50-year legacy, and by the staunch mettle of our community of readers people who have inspired and fueled our work from the beginning. ....
We usually reserve this space for a wide-angle glimpse of what you’ll find inside the magazine, but this month, I want to discuss a different beginning: the newest member of our staff. Carex chihuahuensis (Chihuahuan sedge), from Atascosa Borderlands, a visual storytelling project. Luke Swenson and Jack Dash Editing High Country News is not a job for the faint of heart. We cover the West’s thorniest issues and gravitate without hesitation toward difficult conversations. And you, our readers, expect incisive, fair and meaningful work. HCN’s new editor-in-chief, Jennifer Sahn, is up to the task. Jennifer spent her formative years at ....
Texas Observer but was then the Indigenous Affairs editor for High Country News, and Lee, a historian at Cambridge University, located 99% of the nearly 11 million acres transferred from Indigenous nations to fledgling land-grant colleges through the Morrill Act of 1862 lands taken through broken treaties, illegal seizures and outright genocide. In addition to the feature published in High Country News, the project also created a database at www.landgrabu.org that translates the extensive primary source research into searchable, visual representation, clearly showing the links between nearly 250 Indigenous nations and the 52 institutions that profited (and in some cases still profit) from the transfers. ....