What do we owe wildland firefighters?
Vacancies, of course, limit how much federal firefighters can do. If Western communities want to be protected, they need to ensure that their firefighters receive better pay and benefits.
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“I can’t believe that person is getting that close.” Just off the road stands a bull elk — a 700-pound…
MoreChaco Culture National Park is under siege
It is not an exaggeration to say that New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historical Park is under siege. A surge…
MoreIt’s time to stop shipping water across the Rockies
It was 1952 when the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs first started gobbling up water rights in a remote,…
10,000 year old high altitude fen slated for drowning by Colorado Springs and Augora, CO
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