Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Watch this week’s Halito from High Country News. Brian Oaster rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. Oaster is a staff writer and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
A new tundra, engineered by beavers
By Kylie Mohr
hcn.org/issues/54.3/north-wildlife-a-new-tundra-engineered-by-beavers
Portland community leaders bring the heat to building standards
By Sarah Sax
hcn.org/issues/54.3/north-energy-industry-portland-community-leaders-bring-the-heat-to-building-standards
Hate speech on the Bitterroot
By Peter W. Fong
hcn.org/issues/54.3/essay-race-racism-hate-speech-on-the-bitterroot
High Country News is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) independent media organization that covers environmental news and other important issues and stories that define the Western U.S. Through insightful, in-depth journalism, it strives to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West's diverse natural and human communities.
Watch this week’s Halito from High Country News. Brian Oaster rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. Oaster is a staff writer and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
A new tundra, engineered by beavers
By Kylie Mohr
hcn.org/issues/54.3/north-wildlife-a-new-tundra-engineered-by-beavers
Portland community leaders bring the heat to building standards
By Sarah Sax
hcn.org/issues/54.3/north-energy-industry-portland-community-leaders-bring-the-heat-to-building-standards
Hate speech on the Bitterroot
By Peter W. Fong
hcn.org/issues/54.3/essay-race-racism-hate-speech-on-the-bitterroot
High Country News is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) independent media organization that covers environmental news and other important issues and stories that define the Western U.S. Through insightful, in-depth journalism, it strives to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West's diverse natural and human communities.
