What do we owe wildland firefighters?
Vacancies, of course, limit how much federal firefighters can do. If Western communities want to be protected, they need to ensure that their firefighters receive better pay and benefits.
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?…
MoreHard lessons from the border
Animals have been blocked from migration, their food chains disrupted. Now, exotic weeds, insects and diseases can use the lengthy scar as a nick point for invasion, ultimately disrupting far more than what human border-crossers can do. Photo by Greg Bulla on Unsplash
MoreAs Lake Powell dwindles, wonders open up
It would take us another day and a half of increasingly arduous travel to finally enter Lake Powell
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…
MoreHow to love the bear’s world
When a bear kills a person in the wild, that’s no reason to enact laws making it easier to kill bears. Rather respect that bears are wild creatures and be cautious when in their territor
MoreLooking back to when water was plentiful
During his 50 years in rural western Colorado, Jamie Jacobson has seen a lot of flooding. While caretaking a farm…
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
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You can explore the West and escape the crowds
Here’s the dilemma: You want to explore the West’s huge treasure of public land, but you don’t want to be…
Lake Serene Washington, Photo by Jamie Coupaud, courtesy of Unsplash
MoreWyoming may be too much like America used to be
May 31 By Bruce Palmer If you’re hankering for a true Western vacation, come to the Cowboy State, where we…
Grand Tetons at the end of a Wyoming Road, photograph by Leslie Cross, courtesy of Unsplash
MoreKilling wildlife to see who wins
Predators do kill game and livestock, but no game species in the United States is suppressed by predation, and overpopulated species like elk and deer lack the predators needed to maintain their health and that of native ecosystems.
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