Telling the truth about the way we live now
Evonne lives in a fire lookout in Oregon, and since I meet with these graduate students on Zoom, we’ve all…
Lookout tower
MoreA community of river guides copes with loss
The Grand Canyon boating community — devoted to each other and to the Colorado River — was shocked to learn…
MoreA Japanese-American internment camp has much to teach us
“While other children were sent to daycare, when I was 3 years old I was sent to a Japanese-American prison,”…
MoreThis rancher has radical ideas about water
If Jim Howell, a fourth-generation rancher in Western Colorado, has a guru, he’s Allan Savory, the champion of intensive cattle…
MoreSometimes, the simplest things can help wildlife
“Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roamWhere the deer and the antelope playWhere seldom is heard a discouraging…
Ranch manager Zach Thode, works beside professors and students to help wildlife
MoreLet’s redefine those bucket lists
What did we learn this summer and fall? We learned that people who’d been cooped up, thanks to COVID-19, flocked…
MoreIf you see racism, call it out
Black Americans get a lot of messages about who matters and who does not in this country, and the question…
Dixie National Forest
MorePlease don’t pet the wildlife
“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
MoreHow I learned to love maggots
If you’re one of those people who composts everything you can think of because you want to build up your…
Black Soldier Flies in author, David Marston’s hand
MoreWelcome to Yosemite, the new Pyrocene Park
The Pleistocene epoch that began 2.6 million years ago sent ice in waves through Yosemite. Glaciers gouged out great valleys…
Photo by Laurel Balyeat, Yosemite Park
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