Dying for powder
“I don’t know anyone who’s stood at the top of a slope and thought, ‘Well, this could kill me, but it’s going to be epic powder skiing!’”
Photograph by Jan Kronies, courtesy of Unsplash
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“In 2020, the highest we got to anywhere, was a D2 — Severe Drought. Now we are looking at D3 — D4 — Extreme and Exceptional Drought across much of the West and almost all of the Southwest.”
Cameron Peak Fire, Near Red Feather Lakes, Arapahoe and Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado – 2020 Image courtesy of Harrison Raine
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Rep. Mike Simpson is a conservative Republican from Idaho whose concept of wildness in the 1990s was going into the…
Photograph courtesy of Rocky Barker
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“Within two months I was getting muscles. I have never been harassed since.”
Photograph of Crista Worth in competition shape, courtesy of Crista Worthy
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The ashy storm-petrel, threatened by mice on the Farallon Islands.
Photograph courtesy of Ted Williams
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“Restoration work is not fixing beautiful machinery … It is accepting an abandoned responsibility,”
Photograph courtesy of Allan Nash, open pit coal mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin
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“..a visitor to the town notices abandoned cars parked willy-nilly and piles of junk that look as old as the town itself. “
Photograph Courtesy of Somerset Water District website
More“Gun nut” has a warning
“The so-called patriots of today risk the very rights they’ve pledged to uphold with their lives.”
Image courtesy of STNGR industries
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“The pioneers endured drought, famine, disease, and death in order to reach the West and scratch their names on the wall.”
Photograph by Lloyd Bunk, courtesy of Unsplash
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“I’m living proof of why people should not trust their government with the death penalty”
Photograph by Damir Spanic, courtesy of Unsplash
MoreAll-electric is the way to go
“But perhaps the most challenging task of all is to decarbonize buildings.”
Photograph by Michael Wilson, courtesy of Unsplash
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Once you pay for fallowed fields, you’ll end up with landowners who are investors first, like Water Asset Management.
Photograph by Jon Flobrant, courtesy of Unsplash
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