
Aaron Weiss
Aaron Weiss is the Deputy Director of the Center for Western Priorities (CWP). Weiss joined CWP in 2015 after 14…
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Karen Mockler
Karen Mockler is a writer based in Tucson, Arizona. Mockler has worked as an ed-tech writer and content editor. Before…
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Rick Freimuth
Rick Freimuth is a retired wildland firefighter and carpenter who lives in Paonia, western Colorado.
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Patricia J. Rettig
Patricia J. Rettig is the archivist for the Water Resources Archive at the Colorado State University Libraries.
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Jennifer Rokala
Prior to joining CWP, Jen served as the State Director for U.S. Senator Mark Udall of Colorado. Jen grew up…
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Kristin Combs
Kristin Combs is executive director of Wyoming Wildlife Advocates. Science and education have dominated Kristin’s life. With eight years of…
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Dorothy Bradley
Dorothy Bradley, who makes her home today in Clyde Park, Montana in the northern reaches of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem,…
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Dan Ashe
Daniel M. Ashe is the President and CEO of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Ashe was the Director of the…
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Zak Podmore
Zak Podmore is an award-winning author and journalist who has spent more than a decade writing about water and conservation…
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Zeke Lloyd
An Ohio native, Zeke Lloyd spent four years in Colorado before moving up to Helena, Montana. Now acclimated to the…
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Peter Gartrell
Peter Gartrell is a consultant in Washington, D.C., and covered coal leasing issues as a journalist and congressional staffer
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Kevin Proescholdt
Kevin Proescholdt has worked to protect Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) and other wild places for nearly forty years….
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Mark Maryboy
Mark Maryboy is a retired American politician for San Juan County, Utah, and a former Navajo Nation Council Delegate for the Utah Navajo Section of the…
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Shaun Ketchum Jr.
Shaun Ketchum Jr. directs the 100 Years of Silence project and is a member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.
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Jonathan Romeo
Jonathan Romeo has been a journalist covering the issues that affect the American Southwest for nearly 10 years. His work has appeared…
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Rebecca Clarren
Rebecca Clarren is an award-winning journalist about the American West, her latest book is The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota…
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Clint McKnight
Clint McKnight is a former National Park Ranger, and longtime advocate for wildlife and wild places.
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Mary Moran
Mary Moran lives in Moab where she is a hiker and birder. For 20 years, she worked for Arches and…
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Katie Klingsporn
Katie Klingsporn lives in central Wyoming and recently wrote a series about Wyoming’s maternal care shortage for WyoFile.
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Heather Hansman
Heather Hansman is the author of Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow, and lives…
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Savannah Rose
Savannah Rose lives in Jackson, Wyoming, and is a wildlife photographer who cares about keeping ecosystems intact.
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Lesli Allison
Lesli Allison is CEO of the Western Landowners Alliance, a West-wide, landowner-led organization that supports working lands, connected landscapes and…
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Jacob Richards
Jacob Richards is an outdoor guide and writer and lives in Fruita, Colorado.
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Susan Marsh
Susan Marsh is a naturalist and award-winning writer in Jackson, Wyoming, with over thirty years’ experience as a wild land…
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Andrew Carpenter
Andrew Carpenter is a long-time sportsman and advocate for local hunting.
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RIchard Rubin
Richard Rubin writes in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, where he’s a volunteer steward of the historic Aldo and Estella Leopold…
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Rob Pudim
Rob Pudim is originally from Pennsylvania and has lived in Colorado since 1964. Calling himself a “fallen” scientist but would…
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Gregory Mcnamee
McNamee is a writer, journalist, editor, photographer, and publisher. He is the author or title-page editor of forty books and…
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Wendy Keefover
Wendy Keefover is a senior strategist for the Humane Society of the United States.
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Dana Johnson
Dana Johnson is the staff attorney for Wilderness Watch, a national wilderness conservation organization headquartered in Missoula, MT, www.wildernessswatch.org
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Adam Larson
Larson enjoys sharing his knowledge of science, history and culture with others through teaching, public presentations, and articles. His writing…
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Erica Rosenberg
Rosenberg has been involved with public lands issues for decades–serving as counsel to both House and Senate Committees overseeing public…
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John Clayton
John Clayton is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonprofit that promotes lively dialog about the…
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Joe Stone
Joe Stone is the editor of Forest News, the publication of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics.
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Story Warren
Story Warren is a program manager in wildlife protection for the Humane Society of the United States.
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Stephen Trimble
Steve grew up with a well-nourished sense of wonder. After a liberal arts education at Colorado College, he worked as…
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Betsy Marston
Betsy Marston the longtime editor of Writers on the Range and the former editor of High Country News.
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Reed Benson
Reed Benson is a longtime kayaker and a law professor at the University of New Mexico, focusing on water law…
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Amanda Wight
Amanda Wight is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, a nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the…
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Scott Beckstead
Scott Beckstead is a western small-town kid at heart. He grew up on a small farm in Twin Falls, Idaho,…
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Quinn Harper
Quinn Harper is a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in natural resource policy at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Larry Ryckman
Larry Ryckman is Editor and co-founder of The Colorado Sun. Previously he was senior editor at The Denver Post, managing…
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Astra Lincoln
Astra Lincoln is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her recent work has appeared in Undark, Alpinist, Climbing, Trail…
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Kyle Roerink
Roerink is a former journalist turned environmental activist and leader. He is the executive director of the Great Basin Water…
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Mark Squillace
Professor Mark Squillace joined the faculty at the University of Colorado Law School in 2005 where he served as the…
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Rebecca Johnson
Although Rebecca Johnson has degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and Tufts University, she also spent seven years…
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Mike Kaplan
Mike Kaplan is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, a nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the…
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Matt Witt
Matt Witt is a writer and photographer in Talent, Oregon. His work may be seen at MattWittPhotography.com. He has been…
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Ben Long
Ben Long is a father, conservationist and outdoorsman in Kalispell, Montana. His writing appears in Outdoor Life, Bugle and he…
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Dennis Hinkamp
Dennis Hinkamp was born in St. Louis, MO in 1956, got and BS and MS in Journalism and Consumer Science…
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Louisa Wilcox
Working for Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and Greater Yellowstone Coalition, and Center for Biological Diversity Louisa has advocated…
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Rebecca Lawton
Rebecca Lawton is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about…
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Paul Zaenger
Paul Zaenger is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, a nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the…
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Richard Knight
Richard Knight works at the intersection of land use and land health in the American West. A professor of wildlife…
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Heather Dannahower
Heather Dannahower has spent the majority of her career ‘getting students outside’ as a faculty member in the Forestry, Wildlife…
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Kelsey Wellington
Kelsey Wellington is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about…
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David O. Williams
David O. Williams is an award-winning freelance writer and journalist in EagleVail, Colo., who has interviewed two presidents and four…
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Tim Lydon
Tim Lydon is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, a nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the…
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Benjamin Waddell
Benjamin Waddell is an associate professor of sociology at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He is a father, husband, writer,…
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Tim Treuer
Tim Treuer is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, a nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the…
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John Horning
This was a profile written for our once-weekly newsletter. Never rule out lawsuits if you want to drive change By…
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Jonathon Golden
“Jonathon Golden lives in Park City and has 12 seasons as a wildland firefighter. He resigned in 2019 to prioritize…
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Bruce Palmer
Bruce Palmer is a Wyoming citizen. He is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org and has long advocated…
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Paul Krza is a contributor to Writers on the Range. An opinion service dedicated to lively discussion about the West.
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Dustin Bleizeffer
Dustin Bleizeffer has worked as a coal miner, an oilfield mechanic, and for 20 years as a statewide reporter and…
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Laura Roberts McHenry
Laura Roberts McHenry is from Cortez, Colorado. She is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an independent nonprofit dedicated…
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Marcie Carter
Marcie D. Carter was born and raised in Lewiston, Idaho, she is an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe….
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George Sibley
Early in his writing career, George worked as the winter-keeper at the tiny town of Gothic, the summer home of…
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Jeff Milchen
Jeff Milchen is a freelance writer & political branding consultant. He lives in Bozeman, Montana, and is the founder of…
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Allen Best
Allen Best has been a journalist writing about Colorado and the West for over 40 years. He writes a bi-weekly…
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Molly Absolon
Molly is a graduate of Yale University and U. C. Berkeley. She has attended writers’ conferences at Bread Loaf in…
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Rocky Barker
Rocky Barker is the author of Scorched Earth: How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America. He is the former environmental…
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Ted Williams
Ted Williams is often called the Dean of wildlife Writers. Ted Williams detests baseball but is as obsessed with fishing…
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Ron Keine
Ron Keine spent many years of his life on Death Row. With 9 days until his execution, he was spared…
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Ted White
Edward “Ted” White is the Managing Partner of Fahr LLC, the umbrella entity for business leader, philanthropist, and renewable energy…
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Auden Schendler
Auden Schendler is an American climate activist, businessman and author of Getting Green Done. He is Senior Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen…
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Crista Worthy
Crista Worthy has been flying around the United States with her pilot-husband Fred and their children since 1995, and writing…
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Harrison Raine
Harrison Raine has been fighting fires since 2016 and is a recent graduate of Colorado College. He is a writer…
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Nate Martin
Nate Martin is a journalist and community organizer born and raised in Rock Springs. He is the executive director of…
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Laura Pritchett
Laura directs the low-residency program at Western Colorado University, where professional writers promote serious engagement with the contemporary and ever-evolving…
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Ernie Atencio
Ernie Atencio is an anthropologist, writer and a native of northern New Mexico living near Taos. Ernie also spent many…
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Pepper Trail
Pepper Trail is a biologist and writer who roams the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion from his home in Ashland, Oregon. His environmental…
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Jack Cohen
Jack Cohen PHD, is a retired Forest Service fire researcher. Jack determined how structures ignite during extreme wildfires, created the…
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Char Miller
Char Miller is the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College in Claremont, California. His teaching…
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Todd Wilkinson
Todd Wilkinson has been a professional journalist since 1985. A native of Minnesota’s North Woods, he began his career as…
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Bonnie Gestring
Bonnie Gestring lives in Montana, works as northwest program director for Earthworks, and has been reviewing mining projects for 20…
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Marj Perry
Marj Perry lives on a ranch in western Colorado and spends her days trying to take care of land, cows,…
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Rob Edward
Rob is the president of the Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund (wolfactionfund.com) and has been an advocate for wolf restoration…
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Sharon and Pat O’Toole
Sharon and Pat O’Toole are ranchers and conservationists. Their ranch straddles the Wyoming-Colorado border. He is president of the Family…
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Gary Paul Nabhan
Gary Paul Nabhan is an Agricultural Ecologist, Ethnobotanist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and author whose work has focused primarily on the…
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W.S. Robinson
Will Robinson is a biology professor at Casper College in Wyoming. He was awarded a Fulbright Specialist Award and spent…
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Rich Wandschneider
Rich has written for the Oregonian, High Country News, Portland Magazine, and High Desert Journal and contributed a regular column to theWallowa County…
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Stephen Pyne
Pyne received his bachelor’s degree at Standford University. He later attained his master’s (1974) and Ph.D. degrees (1976) at the…
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Wayne Hare
Wayne Hare lives in Grand Junction, Colorado, and often fights wildfires for the federal government. He is a long-time board…
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Patty Limerick
Patty Limerick is the Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the…
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‘Asta Bowen
‘Asta Bowen is an author from Somers, Montana. Her newspaper column, “Peace Correspondent,” ran in the opinion pages of the…
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Bruce Babbitt
Bruce Babbitt is a former governor of Arizona and served for 8 years as Secretary of the Interior in the…
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Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff
Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff is a native of Arizona and a graduate of Northern Arizona University. She has worked in outdoor…
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Linda Smaligo
Linda Smaligo is a retired graphic designer who had the privilege of working with writers for many years on various…
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Denise Fort
Denise Fort has an extensive background in environmental and natural resources law – about 25 years of practice, politics, reflecting…
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Jerry Brady
Jerry Brady is a fourth-generation Idahoan with a family history that began in 1895 with a canal-builder, governor and US…
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Gary Wockner
Gary Wockner is a contributor to Writersontherange.org, a nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. He runs the nonprofit Save…
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Dave Marston
Dave Marston grew up in a newspaper family. His first job was working in the mail room for wages and…
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Jonathan Thompson
Jonathan Thompson has been reporting on and writing about the Western U.S. for a quarter of a century. He is a freelance…
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Brian Sexton
Brian Sexton resides in Southern Oregon and is a lifelong outdoorsman and conservationist. He enjoys thinking and writing about modern…
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Natalie Dawson
Natalie Dawson has been a wilderness guide, wildlife biologist, professor, waitress, writer, business owner, and she continues an energetic and…
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