Sarah Tory
High Country News
Colorado, United States
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What happens when an affluent Arizona suburb’s main water supply is cut off? — High Country News – Know the West
As the Colorado River crisis worsens, an unregulated housing development faces a reckoning. → Read More
Post-Trump, wildlife passages along the border wall keep narrowing — High Country News – Know the West
As construction continues, U.S. and Mexican conservationists work together to preserve remaining corridors. → Read More
The threat to Colorado’s acequias and the communities that depend on them — High Country News – Know the West
In the San Luis Valley, the communal and egalitarian resource offers a way of life. → Read More
Where do public lands factor into the homelessness crisis? (Making a Home of It) — High Country News – Know the West
As the housing crisis in the West deepens, more unhoused people are making a home outside. → Read More
Rapid growth in Arizona’s suburbs bets against an uncertain water supply (Uncertain water supply) — High Country News – Know the West
‘The alternative is something they don’t want to think about.’ → Read More
Documenting destruction from above — High Country News – Know the West
A young photographer highlights the environmental crises facing Indigenous communities at home and abroad. → Read More
Divided prospects: The fight over an immigration detention center (Divided Prospects) — High Country News – Know the West
When a private prison company came to Evanston, Wyoming, local officials believed an economic revival was at hand. Instead, it unleashed a bitter debate. → Read More
The failures of U.S. immigration policies (Where does U.S. migration policy go from here?) — High Country News – Know the West
Three new books challenge the way we imagine the U.S.-Mexico border. → Read More
The border wall threatens decades of binational wildlife conservation — High Country News – Know the West
Binational groups are preserving migratory corridors and restoring degraded areas in the Borderlands. Will the landscape be severed? → Read More
The US is closing its doors to asylum seekers (Closed doors) — High Country News – Know the West
‘The Dispossessed’ follows a family’s harrowing search for safety, and asks what new policies say about the nation’s long-standing ideals. → Read More
Why the University of California is fighting for DACA (Defending DACA) — High Country News – Know the West
From a campus legal clinic all the way to the Supreme Court, UC stands up for Dreamers. → Read More
To find Jose Montelongo, ICE agents targeted his whole family (‘Why are you doing this?’) — High Country News – Know the West
One family’s ordeal under Trump’s zero tolerance immigration tactics. → Read More
The case against immigration prisons (The case against migrant detention) — High Country News – Know the West
Law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández analyzes why America puts so many immigrants behind bars. → Read More
A family held their relatives captive; a community set them free (A win against labor injustice in Colorado) —
A labor trafficking case shows Westerners can sometimes still count on each other to protect those in need. → Read More
One rancher’s plan to establish water buffalo in Colorado —
The challenges and possibilities of water buffalo ranching in the Roaring Fork Valley. → Read More
One rancher’s plan to establish water buffalo in Colorado (Where the (water) buffalo roam) —
The challenges and possibilities of water buffalo ranching in the Roaring Fork Valley. → Read More
The grassroots groups helping asylum-seekers on the border —
The grassroots groups helping asylum-seekers on the border ‘We had no choice but to make it work.’ One morning this spring in the parking lot of a mall south of Tucson, Arizona, four people gathered around a gray minivan as the sun spilled into the still-cold desert air. Bags loaded with toys and stuffed animals filled the trunk of the van — donated by the Green Valley-Sahuarita Samaritans, one… → Read More
An Arizona border sheriff confronts the wall —
President Trump’s pitch is ‘a sound bite, not a cogent public policy position.’ → Read More
An Arizona border sheriff confronts the wall —
President Trump’s pitch is ‘a sound bite, not a cogent public policy position.’ → Read More
Can stories help us understand the realities of migration? —
In her new novel, Valeria Luiselli explores the possibilities and limits of writing about the border crisis. → Read More