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All-electric is the way to go

By Auden Schendler Ted White

“But perhaps the most challenging task of all is to decarbonize buildings.”

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Who Calls the Shots on the Colorado River?

By Dave Marston

Once you pay for fallowed fields, you’ll end up with landowners who are investors first, like Water Asset Management.

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Like it or not, We Learned a Few Things

By 'Asta Bowen

“2020 put the lie to the notion that we are in charge.”

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When Water Dries Up, It Can Be Deadly

By Pepper Trail

“The dams that choke the Klamath River may be finally nearing removal”

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One State Still Craves Coal

By Dustin Bleizeffer

“It seems a shame that the state isn’t onboard with its Western neighbors to help decarbonize the grid.”

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We’ve Been Living With Too Much Rudeness

By Crista Worthy

“I’ve also heard from bicycle riders who say they’re sitting ducks when trucks pass by while belching out black smoke..”

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It’s Time to Come to the Aid of Wildland Firefighters

By Harrison Raine

“..many of the men and women who fight those fires on our behalf are suffering from burnout”

Image of Harrison Raine setting a backfire to stop wildfire from spreading

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Now We Need to Rollback the Rollbacks

By Jonathan Thompson

“Yet Obama’s policies were equally friendly to energy development.”

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A Mixed-up-Family Becomes an American Family

By Rich Wandschneider

““How’s being black?” wrote a classmate in my grandson’s yearbook. “

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A Move Toward Water Speculation

By Dave Marston

“Just talking about demand management has already attracted deep-pocketed investors..”

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Wyoming Needs to Bite the Bullet

By Nate Martin

“Sundance, Wyoming, is considering axing its entire police force because they can’t pay for it.”

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Living with Evacuation, Smoke and Helicopters

By Laura Pritchett

“Wouldn’t it be a miracle if the whole damn world banded together and realized climate change was the number one priority?”

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The Park Record has published Writers on the Range for years because of the value it provides for our readers. In a community like Park City, tucked away in Utah’s Wasatch Range, connection to the broader region is critical, and our readers enjoy learning about important topics happening elsewhere in the West — as well as having their perceptions challenged through thought-provoking analysis and opinion pieces. And while we strive to provide that type of content through a number of means, we have found few better resources than the always-compelling offerings of Writers on the Range.

Bubba Brown, Editor
The Park Record, Park City, UT

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