Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Watch this week’s Halito from High Country News where Staff Writer Toastie rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. Toastie is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
Green colonialism is flooding the Pacific Northwest
By B. ‘Toastie’ Oyster
7 minute read
hcn.org/issues/55.3/indigenous-affairs-green-colonialism-is-flooding-the-pacific-northwest
The 90-foot sentinel of Butte, Montana
By Leah Sottile
40 minute read
What the heck is the Sonoran Avalanche Center?
hcn.org/articles/recreation-what-the-heck-is-the-sonoran-avalanche-center
By Kate Schimel
7 minute read
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 where Staff Writer Toastie rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. Toastie is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
Green colonialism is flooding the Pacific Northwest
By B. ‘Toastie’ Oyster
7 minute read
hcn.org/issues/55.3/indigenous-affairs-green-colonialism-is-flooding-the-pacific-northwest
The 90-foot sentinel of Butte, Montana
By Leah Sottile
40 minute read
What the heck is the Sonoran Avalanche Center?
hcn.org/articles/recreation-what-the-heck-is-the-sonoran-avalanche-center
By Kate Schimel
7 minute read
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.

