How do you you-know-what in the woods
Poop talk makes everybody fidget and giggle uncomfortably. We like our poop to disappear. We want shiny white porcelain toilets…
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We know now that the largest recorded fire in New Mexico history was started by an escaped “prescribed burn,” or…
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The Colorado River Compact turns 100 this year, but any celebration is damped down by the drying-up of the big…
The public launch ramp at Antelope Point, late March, 2021
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Journalism has always been a tough way to make a living. It’s generally offered low wages, the constant threat of…
MoreBison — back where they belong
Early in the Covid-19 epidemic, I visited the Bison Range on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana. But the…
Bison by the Midway Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park
MoreA water-stressed valley needs to curb development
In my drought- and fire-plagued home valley, 40 miles north of San Francisco, a debate has been simmering for decades…
MorePlenty of food, but not for all farmworkers 
On a summer morning in southern Idaho, the day breaks early, before 6 a.m. The air is stale, never fully…
Farm workers harvesting yellow bell peppers near Gilroy, California.
MoreHow much will a name change change?
It was late November in Alaska and a lousy day for deer hunting. Rough seas rocked our small boat, and…
View of Kenai Mountains, not far from the former Squaw Bay
MoreThis grizzly family comes with paparazzi
My neighbor is famous. She has 50,000 followers on Facebook and a recent post on her page there had 4,200…
Mother grizzly 399 and her four cubs
MoreA do-it-yourself, homegrown national park
National parks have been getting a lot of love since the pandemic, so much that this summer you need reservations…
MoreWildlife Fauxtography
I’m disgusted with American journalism. It’s boring. I blame editors for assigning uninteresting stories, and people interviewed for being evasive….
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…
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