Guess who has outsized clout on public lands?
This may be a surprising story. It begins with a working group trying to save the last native bighorn sheep…
Image by Pete Nuij, courtesy of Unsplash
MoreA grassroots effort can defy the odds
This year marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most spectacular conservation victories in recent history: the defeat of…
MoreTelling 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
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…
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…
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
MoreThe Colorado River is sending a message
The region lived without them before, and it can live without them again. Now, nature is forcing our hand, telling us that it’s time to breach the dam and let the Colorado River run free.
Image above of Willow Creek Canyon once a popular side canyon for boaters. Now a sandy wash. Image courtesy of Glen Canyon Institute staff.
MoreTwo Western states act to control methane
Gated methane vent pad in Sunshine Roadless area above Paonia, CO. Methane originates in active Arch Resources coal mine. This collection of vents makes Arch the third biggest greenhouse gas polluter in Colorado.
MoreHands off the rocks
Hikers are flooding our public lands, so I ask the question: Why can’t people just leave the poor rocks alone?…
MoreWhen immortals die
Giant sequoias come as close to immortality as living organisms can. Many live over a thousand years despite nature’s challenges. So…
MoreCall 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
MoreThe 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…
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