Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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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.

Why is this California sheriff suddenly interested in ‘environmental crimes?’
By Theo Whitcomb
hcn.org/issues/54.5/south-law-enforcement-siskiyou-countys-sheriff-is-suddenly-interested-in-policing-environmental-crimes

The lion king of Los Angeles
By Ruxandra Guidi
hcn.org/issues/54.5/wildlife-the-lion-king-of-los-angeles

How place names impact the way we see landscape
By Brian Oaster
hcn.org/issues/54.5/people-places-how-place-names-impact-the-way-we-see-landscape

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.