High Country News is a monthly independent magazine based in Paonia, Colorado, that covers environmental, social, and political issues in the Western United States.

[2] Syndicated stories from High Country News have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and other national publications.

[2][3] The non-profit High Country News media organization also produces a website, special reports, and books.

Tom Bell, a Wyoming conservationist, rancher, and decorated World War II bombardier, started a newspaper in 1970 that would become the High Country News.

[7] According to a review in The Christian Science Monitor, the paper "is closely read in congressional offices and state houses, as well as in the government agencies that control most of the rural West.