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28 March 2018
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Bozeman, Montana looks to Fort Collins, Colorado for strategies on what to do -- and what not to do -- when tackling urban planning for rapid expansion. While Fort Collins planned for growth by creating tasks forces t...
High Country News
Maddy Butcher
20 February 2018
Mancos, Colorado, United States
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In Mancos, Colorado, the school board voted “no” to arming school staff in the traditionally Western town. Across the United States, the question of arming teachers is being brought up as a response to the increase in...
High Country News
Mark Fogarty
5 February 2018
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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A private company called Travois acts as a bridge between tribes and private investors in order to help make affordable housing more accessible in tribal homelands across the West. The company brings investors to trib...
10 January 2018
Philipsburg, Montana, United States
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While many rural towns have struggled to retain residents and jobs, Philipsburg, Montana has enjoyed a newly bustling downtown because of tourism brought to the town by businesses with long-term advertising and renewa...
9 January 2018
Libby, Montana, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Despite the brain drain struggle that some Montana small towns face, young professionals are finding reasons to move back to the state and towns they call home. Some towns have tried specific strategies, such as promo...
11 December 2017
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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As wildfires become increasingly more prevalent and powerful, researchers in New Mexico are turning their attention to mitigation successes from ancestral generations. By implementing some of these methods such as sel...
High Country News
John Miller
31 October 2017
Farmington, New Mexico, United States
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Small towns like Farmington, New Mexico take advantage of federal funds from Main Street America and the Metropolitan Redevelopment Act in order to revitalize their town centers and boost their local economies. Farmin...
High Country News
Leah Todd
24 October 2017
Luna County, New Mexico, United States
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Historically there has been stigma and pushback to bilingual and immigrant programs, but some counties are starting to embrace diversity as key to economic development. Greater diversity spurs innovation, entrepreneur...
High Country News
Leah Todd
16 October 2017
Pagosa Springs, Colorado, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Rural counties across the West are grappling with how to entice more young people to remain local, but a few counties demonstrate what it takes to succeed. By focusing on niche tourism industries, education, and housi...
High Country News
Krista Langlois
18 September 2017
Homer, Alaska, United States
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Historically, farming has been very difficult in Alaska, making certain food products very expensive, and leading to a lack of locally grown food. However, due to climate change and new technology, farming is increasi...
18 September 2017
El Desemboque, Mexico
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A group who is being affected the most by climate change in the Sonoran Desert is also working to fight climate change using both tradition and new technology. The Seri are a small tribe whose ecological knowledge ha...
18 September 2017
Wyoming, United States
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In Wyoming, the economic development is closely linked to the coal industry. Forty percent of the coal is being mined in this state. However, the industry is declining and many people are losing their jobs. To adjust ...
18 September 2017
Puget Sound, Washington, United States
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Over 3000 Words
The oceans are acidifying at an alarming rate due to human-influenced climate change, and the effects are proving detrimental to our food chain and the marine ecosystem - especially shellfish, which are literally crum...
High Country News
Kate Schimel
4 September 2017
Washington, United States
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Removing dams pays back dividends by restoring ecological diversity. In Washington State, the decommissioning of the Elwha and Glines Canyon Dams began a decades-long process of restoring the Elwha River’s floodplain....
26 June 2017
Colorado, United States
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Colorado is home to 54 fourteeners – mountains that rise to 14,000 feet high or higher and serve as popular routes for many avid hikers despite not having designed trails. To keep hikers safe while also preserving pla...
19 April 2017
Sebastopol, California, United States
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California looks to the Bank of North Dakota as a model to launch a public bank for the cannabis industry. While the Bank of North Dakota is the only public bank in the country thus far, California's cannabis industry...
High Country News
Lyndsey Gilpin
15 November 2016
Delta, Colorado, United States
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A local energy cooperative in Colorado, Delta Montrose Electric Association, is spurring economic development through renewable energy. The program has allowed Delta County to diversify energy sources, and has become ...
High Country News
Brian Calvert
15 November 2016
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
A number of problems continue to challenge rural agriculture in the western United States. These include connecting people who grow the food with the people that need to eat the food, food waste worsening greenhouse g...
High Country News
Leah Todd
15 November 2016
Trinidad, Colorado, United States
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Many small towns in Colorado who have previously struggled economically are now benefitting from the legal marijuana industry. The marijuana sales tax is helping towns pay for infrastructure and development efforts. H...
High Country News
Leah Todd
15 November 2016
Hobbs, New Mexico, United States
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Lea County, New Mexico felt the downfall of the oil industry deeply; now, towns like Hobbs rebuild their economic infrastructure by investing in alternative energy plants as well as affordable housing for its resident...
High Country News
Kate Schimel
10 October 2016
Paonia, Colorado, United States
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In 2011, the Colorado Education Initiative (CEI), an education advocacy and research organization, launched the Colorado Legacy Schools project. The program funded innovative ways to increase the number and diversity ...
High Country News
Leah Todd
10 October 2016
Farmington, New Mexico, United States
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To address the lack of available WiFi outside of school settings, a local college in Farmington, New Mexico, offers students the ability to check out wireless hotspots for one week at a time, While the school's resour...
High Country News
Lyndsey Gilpin
9 October 2016
Center, Colorado, United States
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The Migrant Education Program, which offers educational and social services to migrant worker families in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, is growing in popularity among the valley’s migrant worker population, and has rece...
High Country News
Leah Todd
8 October 2016
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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A New Mexico network of native schools, called the NACA-Inspired Schools Network, addresses the failure of traditional schooling to incorporate native culture into lessons by designing a culturally relevant curriculum...
High Country News
Lyndsey Gilpin
5 September 2016
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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800-1500 Words
To develop the next generation of producers, the Young Farmers Coalition non-profit is now pushing Congress and individual state legislatures to take a big step: forgiving farmers’ student loans.
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