High Country News

Watch this week’s Halito from High Country News where Community Outreach Manager Michael Leveton rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.

What if Indigenous women ran controlled burns?
The Karuk Tribe’s first-of-its-kind training seeks to extinguish hypermasculinity in firefighting culture.
7 minute read
https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.1/indig...

Fire risk map ignites controversy
Southern Oregon residents lash back at wildfire preparedness rules.
7 minute read
https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.1/north...

Why are Saudi farmers pumping Arizona groundwater?
A conversation with Natalie Koch, author of ‘Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arabia and Arizona.’
6 minute read
https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.1/south...