Uploaded January 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.
Humble suckers: Pacific lamprey have survived 5 mass extinctions but are now under threat
By Brian Oaster
hcn.org/issues/54.2/indiginous-affairs-fish-humble-suckers-pacific-lamprey-have-survived-5-mass-extinctions-but-are-now-under-threat/view
See the the Channel Islands’ stunning ecological recovery
By Theo Whitcomb
hcn.org/articles/photos-wildlife-see-the-the-channel-islands-stunning-ecological-recovery
Rekindling connections in the small flame of a qulliq
By Lorelai Ivanoff
hcn.org/issues/54.2/north-people-places-rekindling-connections-in-the-small-flame-of-a-quilliq?utm_source=wcn1&utm_medium=email
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.
Humble suckers: Pacific lamprey have survived 5 mass extinctions but are now under threat
By Brian Oaster
hcn.org/issues/54.2/indiginous-affairs-fish-humble-suckers-pacific-lamprey-have-survived-5-mass-extinctions-but-are-now-under-threat/view
See the the Channel Islands’ stunning ecological recovery
By Theo Whitcomb
hcn.org/articles/photos-wildlife-see-the-the-channel-islands-stunning-ecological-recovery
Rekindling connections in the small flame of a qulliq
By Lorelai Ivanoff
hcn.org/issues/54.2/north-people-places-rekindling-connections-in-the-small-flame-of-a-quilliq?utm_source=wcn1&utm_medium=email
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.
