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Mar 5, 2025 · We welcome reader letters. Email High Country News at [email protected] or submit a letter to the editor. See our letters to the editor policy.

Aug 4, 2025 · But in a memo shared with HCN, Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz told agency leaders on July 16 that “as expected, the 2025 Fire Year is proving to be extremely challenging.”

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Jun 1, 2025 · See our letters to the editor policy. This article appeared in the June 2025 print edition of the magazine with the headline “ HCN welcomes our newest board member.”

Before joining HCN, she spent three years covering the remote border communities of Far West Texas for Marfa Public Radio, where she also produced a weekly Spanish-language news …

Dec 12, 2024 · Kylie Mohr Kylie Mohr is a correspondent for High Country News writing from Montana. Email her at [email protected] or submit a letter to the editor. More by Kylie Mohr