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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 ...

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 n...

Texas Observer and then-Indigenous Affairs editor for High Country News, and Lee, a historian at Cambridge University, located 99% of the nearly 11 million acres transferred to fledgling land-grant colleges by the Morrill Act of 1862 — lands taken from their original Indigenous caretakers through the use of broken treaties, illegal seizures and outright genocide. In addition to the feature published in High Country News, the project also created a database at landgrabu.org that translates the extensive primary source research into searchable, visual representation, clearly showing the lin...

A CHANGING OF THE GUARD In 2002, after nearly two decades at the helm, Publisher and Editor Ed and Betsy Marston decided to step down. Longtime staffer Paul Larmer became publisher, and Greg Hanscom took over as editor. Together with Art Director Cindy Wehling, they turned the black-and-white tabloid into a full-color magazine that celebrated the beauty and exposed the ugliness of the West. This included deep reporting on the region’s extractive industries. The 2000s brought an unprecedented oil and gas boom, spurred by $100/barrel oil prices and new hydro-fracking technology that enabled p...