Uploaded October 2021 | 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 one of our editorial interns and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-archaeology-the-white-sands-discovery-only-confirms-what-indigenous-people-have-said-all-along
Behind the wire with a fence ecologist
hcn.org/issues/53.10/north-wildlife-behind-the-wire-with-a-fence-ecologist-pronghorn
When public health becomes the public enemy
hcn.org/issues/53.10/north-extremism-when-public-health-becomes-the-public-enemy-community
Just how fat are the fat bears?
hcn.org/articles/north-bears-just-how-fat-are-the-fat-bears
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 one of our editorial interns and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-archaeology-the-white-sands-discovery-only-confirms-what-indigenous-people-have-said-all-along
Behind the wire with a fence ecologist
hcn.org/issues/53.10/north-wildlife-behind-the-wire-with-a-fence-ecologist-pronghorn
When public health becomes the public enemy
hcn.org/issues/53.10/north-extremism-when-public-health-becomes-the-public-enemy-community
Just how fat are the fat bears?
hcn.org/articles/north-bears-just-how-fat-are-the-fat-bears
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.





