Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks 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.
‘Cultural resources are not a renewable thing for us.’
By Sarah Sax
hcn.org/issues/54.1/north-renewable-energy-cultural-resources-are-not-a-renewable-thing-for-us
A shellfish company gets into the weeds
By Sarah Sax
hcn.org/issues/54.1/north-food-a-shellfish-company-gets-into-the-weeds
Gold country: A precious metal, a mining mega-corp and a captive workforce
By Nick Bowlin and Daniel Rothberg
hcn.org/issues/54.1/south-mining-gold-country-a-precious-metal-a-mining-mega-corp-and-a-captive-workforce
Religious gatekeeping in red-rock country
By Maurice Crandall
hcn.org/issues/54.1/indigenous-affairs-communities-religious-gatekeeping-in-red-rock-country
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.
‘Cultural resources are not a renewable thing for us.’
By Sarah Sax
hcn.org/issues/54.1/north-renewable-energy-cultural-resources-are-not-a-renewable-thing-for-us
A shellfish company gets into the weeds
By Sarah Sax
hcn.org/issues/54.1/north-food-a-shellfish-company-gets-into-the-weeds
Gold country: A precious metal, a mining mega-corp and a captive workforce
By Nick Bowlin and Daniel Rothberg
hcn.org/issues/54.1/south-mining-gold-country-a-precious-metal-a-mining-mega-corp-and-a-captive-workforce
Religious gatekeeping in red-rock country
By Maurice Crandall
hcn.org/issues/54.1/indigenous-affairs-communities-religious-gatekeeping-in-red-rock-country
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.
