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Hands off the rocks

Hikers are flooding our public lands, so I ask the question: Why can’t people just leave the poor rocks alone?…

When immortals die

Giant sequoias come as close to immortality as living organisms can. Many live over a thousand years despite nature’s challenges. So…

Call it Bindweed or thistle – Writers on the Range just won’t die

It sprouted again during a fall hike in 2019. Betsy, Steve Mandell, his wife, Terri, and I, agreed that Writers on the Range deserved to live again.

Photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash

The Complexity of Color in the Environmental Movement

 This summer was a time of reckoning about race in every sector of American life, and many of us are…

A Goldmine by a Salmon Fishery is a Terrible Idea

The Bristol Bay salmon fishery is a renewable resource; the legacy of the Pebble Mine promises perpetual pollution

Photograph by Austin Neill, Courtesy of Unsplash

Colorado Needs Wolves

“…we can efficiently and affordably undo our ancestors’ shortsighted decision to erase wolves from America’s wild place.”

Photograph by Robert Larsson, Courtesy of Unsplash

The wall with Mexico will come tumbling down

But one needs to read only a bit of world history to realize that walls can come down as a quickly as they were put up.

Photograph by Greg Bulla, Courtesy of Unsplash

The Bomb and Me, 75 Years Later

“my face received about a hundred times more radiation than Japanese nuke bomb”

Photograph by of Thomas van der Veer, courtesy of Unsplash

Climbing Walls While Sitting in a Chair

Suddenly tears flowed. “Geez, you could say I squashed a bug.”

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THE WORLD IS ALIVE

Climate change and the conversion of wild ecosystems, if unchecked, threaten to collapse the global bounty of “nature’s services.”

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GRAND CANYON TAKES A BREAK FROM THE CROWDS

To reach any national park in the West, people have to travel. Travel is risky and helps spread the virus.

Photograph by Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff