A community of river guides copes with loss

The Grand Canyon boating community — devoted to each other and to the Colorado River — was shocked to learn…
MoreA Japanese-American internment camp has much to teach us

“While other children were sent to daycare, when I was 3 years old I was sent to a Japanese-American prison,”…
MoreThis rancher has radical ideas about water

If Jim Howell, a fourth-generation rancher in Western Colorado, has a guru, he’s Allan Savory, the champion of intensive cattle…
MoreSometimes, the simplest things can help wildlife

“Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roamWhere the deer and the antelope playWhere seldom is heard a discouraging…
Ranch manager Zach Thode, works beside professors and students to help wildlife
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…
MoreIf you see racism, call it out

Black Americans get a lot of messages about who matters and who does not in this country, and the question…
Dixie National Forest
MorePlease don’t pet the wildlife

“I can’t believe that person is getting that close.” Just off the road stands a bull elk — a 700-pound…
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…
MoreIt’s time to stop shipping water across the Rockies

It was 1952 when the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs first started gobbling up water rights in a remote,…
10,000 year old high altitude fen slated for drowning by Colorado Springs and Augora, CO
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
MoreWelcome to Yosemite, the new Pyrocene Park

The Pleistocene epoch that began 2.6 million years ago sent ice in waves through Yosemite. Glaciers gouged out great valleys…
Photo by Laurel Balyeat, Yosemite Park
MoreOur new age of fire

Fire in the West is expected, and not so long ago, it seemed something the West experienced more than anywhere…
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