Town unites to fight a floodplain development
Moab, Utah is a growing town of 5,300 that several million people visit each year to tour nearby Arches and…
Colorado River near Moab, Utah/Courtesy Writers on the Range
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Nearly two decades ago, I moved to the mountains to be a ski bum, chasing snow. I was a stereotype—an…
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MoreThe housing crisis is harming my town
In Girdwood, Alaska, we’ll long remember the snowstorm of Dec. 6, just three months ago. But it won’t be for…
Girdwood Valley courtesy of Nathan Searles
MoreWhen no home is affordable, where do you live?
It’s a common story: Candace McNatt of Durango, in southern Colorado, kept losing bidding wars to buy a house. She…
Candace McNatt with her dog at Oasis Park in Durango Co. The tiny home part of the park is called, “tiny town”
MoreAffordable housing shouldn’t have to take a miracle
Residents of the Westside Mobile Home Park in Durango, in southern Colorado, called it a miracle: They now own the…
MoreTrailer park residents hope to buy the land beneath them
Just outside Durango, Colorado there’s a trailer park called Westside that I’ve been driving by all my life. Yet residents…
MoreHousing prices in the West are over the moon.
“But now the Zoom Boom-fueled market fire is spreading beyond the “best places” into the once-affordable bastions of working class neighborhoods, the bedroom communities, rural ranchettes and even trailer parks.”
Photograph by Phil Hearing, courtesy of Unsplash
MoreThe West’s Population Grows and Churns
“Americans are still mobile and still moving West..”
Photograph by Brooke Cagle, courtesty of Unsplash
MoreHouses Must be Built to Withstand Wildfire
That the scene has become familiar makes it no less wrenching: A distraught couple searches through the ash, char, and…
U.S. Forest Service Photo 2007. Grass Valley Fire in Southern California’s San Bernadino Mountains
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