High Country News and the Goat blog

I've blogged High Country News before and listed the to HCN online newsletter and companion blog, the Goat blog (a hard to resist blog title). Don't look for them on the sidebar. Recently, I trimmed (saving not tossing) links lists to local, NM and art. So went HCN & the Goat - along with Museum of Bad Art (MOBA). Amazingly Bad Poetry Journal, spluch, Surrealist Insult Generator, Digital Dante and others.

Today I'm revisiting High Country News, in more detail this time, to share and recommend it. f you are interested in land use, water and development news and issues, you'll find much to read and enjoy in HCN. We're in the area it covers, so many HCN pieces, even ones written from Colorado or Montana, are on topics close to home. Whether or not you agree may be another matter. Take a look. read some articles and decide for yourself. Then select one of various subscription options if you want more.

HCN - according to the masthead, For people who care about the American West - is an independent biweekly news magazine that reports on the West's natural resources, public lands, and changing communities, covering 11 western states, from the Great Plains to the Northwest, and from the Northern Rockies to the desert Southwest.

Map of HCN States

About High Country News -

HCN Articles & Opinions

• Use it up, recycle, and never buy anything new – whew!
• Don'’t starve the Forest Service
• Primer on Water (with links to related articles)
  
• Primer on Recreation (motors & public lands but bears on tourism & thus economy & development, with links to related articles)
• Guarding Galisteo
• Why mining reform matters to all of us
• Rangeland Revival (progressive ranching movement, rotational grazing, Quivira Coalition)
  

More Goat blog

• The West: A land of refugees (urban, that is)
• The Windy West (particularly apropos today)
• Articles on Western Culture
• A list of articles on growth and development in the Western states.

Not gone though. I subscribed to and am currently testing Web 2.0 social bookmarking app del.ic.ious (just one of many) to save, organize and then share links. All without filling sidebar up with interminable lists of links, which of course means I can fill it up with something else. Then too I can do occasional (maybe even themed) links posts....and even try to remember to tag them.

Agree, disagree with HCN perspective - or undecided? Tell us about it. Got your own faves to share? Well, just post the links in comments with a few words about them. Same for suggesting categories - or reviewing already posted links, say for example, your favorite art or other site..