SAGUAROS SYMBOLIZE the Sonoran Desert, appearing in classic Western movies and even children’s cartoons. A cactus can grow up to 78 feet high and live over 200 years. Saguaros take their time to ...

She co-founded a Whatcom County chapter of the Rainbow Coalition. Later, as part of the United Farm Workers of America, she led negotiations to win a union contract for farmworkers at the Chateau Ste.

As the federal land and wildlife agencies struggle to meet their responsibilities, volunteers and others are stepping up, not only to help endangered toads but also to maintain trail systems, host ...

The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change.

The administration said it will go hunting for cases of wind energy companies unintentionally killing migratory birds — something it has long argued is not a violation of federal law.

Carol Ann Fitzgerald is a former editor at The Sun and The Oxford American. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Ploughshares, The Oxford American, The Sun, The OA Book of Great Music ...

Brian Buckbee lives in Missoula, Montana. He is co-founder of The 406 Writers’ Workshop. His stories have appeared in The Sun, The Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review ...

Kylie Mohr is a correspondent for High Country News writing from Montana. Email her at [email protected] or submit a letter to the editor.

Shi En Kim is an editorial fellow at HCN covering science, environment and society. Feel free to email her at [email protected] to speak with her about these topics and more or submit a letter to ...

He is disabled, but he tries so hard to be a “normal” bird that he has become one of my favorites. He’s on the floor of my living room, right in the middle of the wide doorway to the kitchen, and he’s ...

People living in Wilmington, California, experience higher levels of illness and ailing mental health.

How the discovery of a long-lost monument shattered trust between a Japanese American community and the museum built to preserve its history.