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The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose? - High Country News
May 18, 2020 · But when the protesters waved the Gadsden flag, Morigeau found the message confusing. The bright yellow banner is not a Civil War symbol; rather, its forthright message read like a dare, a taunt ...
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The power of atmospheric rivers, explained - High Country News
Jan 4, 2023 · Just days into 2023, Californians braced for the latest in a series of atmospheric river storms that National Weather Service forecasters called “impressive,” “debilitating” and “brutal.”
What the Bundy Bunkerville standoff foreshadowed
Oct 1, 2024 · Protesters placed a sign on a bridge near Bunkerville, Nevada, in 2014. Credit: Jim Urquhart/Reuters/Redux But Cooter said the Bundys’ unconventional religious views were generally downplayed.
After the Klamath River dams came down, salmon came back
Nov 29, 2024 · The return of salmon restores an integral part of river-based communities — both human and ecological. Vegetation restoration has centered native plants and streamside resiliency (left).
Diverted, drained and dwindling: What’s the fate of New Mexico’s …
Jan 14, 2021 · The Rio Grande used to provide water on a bell curve, with powerful floods in the spring and summer and lower and slower flows in the winter. Now the dams release about 20% of what naturally ...
What Project 2025 has to say about Native communities
Oct 29, 2024 · Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe Councilman Donald Medart joins members of Congress, tribal leaders and community advocates at a rally in Washington, D.C., this April to urge the Biden ...
The Supreme Court decisions that gutted environmental …
Dec 19, 2024 · In recent years, U.S. Supreme Court decisions have undercut federal agencies’ ability to curb pollution and fight climate change. Several cases decided in 2024 continued this trend ...
Montana’s Jon Tester might lose. Here’s why that matters
Oct 31, 2024 · Welcome to the Landline, a monthly newsletter from High Country News about land, water, wildlife, climate and conservation in the Western United States. Sign up to get it in your inbox.. In 2006 ...