The 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…
MoreA 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
MoreColorado 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
MoreThe 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
MoreThe 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
MoreClimbing Walls While Sitting in a Chair
Suddenly tears flowed. “Geez, you could say I squashed a bug.”
Photograph by Kuma Kum, Courtesy of Unsplash
MoreTHE 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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