Colorado Needs Wolves
“…we can efficiently and affordably undo our ancestors’ shortsighted decision to erase wolves from America’s wild place.”
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MoreWolves and lots of People Don’t Mix
“Wolf proponents see western Colorado as an empty wilderness, not acknowledging the combustion engine, or Interstate-70.”
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MoreIf You Like Fish and Birds, Hug a Cow
“Eighty-five percent of grazing lands — think sagebrush steppe or high desert landscapes — are not suitable for any other type of food production”
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MoreIf the Water Goes, the Desert Moves in
“Without water, you’ve got nothing around here.”
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MoreThe wall with Mexico will come tumbling down
But one needs to read only a bit of world history to realize that walls can come down as a quickly as they were put up.
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MoreThe Bomb and Me, 75 Years Later
“my face received about a hundred times more radiation than Japanese nuke bomb”
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MoreClimbing Walls While Sitting in a Chair
Suddenly tears flowed. “Geez, you could say I squashed a bug.”
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MoreWe Either Lie About Them or Omit Them
And, according to Indian friends, there are strong tribal memories of the devastating 1918 flu
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MoreWILDFIRE IS MEANER THESE DAYS
As I look out my window, the smoke from the Bush fire is belching upward behind the fabled profile of…
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MoreAIN’T NONE OF US CAN BREATH
How do you explain racism when it is so subtle and ingrained that it became invisible to white people generations ago?
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MoreLOOKING HATE IN THE EYES IN WHITEFISH
He would constantly remind us that ‘no matter the threat, always look them in the eye so they have to acknowledge you’re human.
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MoreMY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RODEO CLOWNS
When all hell breaks loose and disorder rules, rodeo clowns stay self-possessed and focused.
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