How a controversial poison saved Utah Lake
Ninety-five-thousand-acre Utah Lake is a major water source for the Great Salt Lake. If it dries up or sickens, so…
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The Colorado Trail, an iconic 567-mile high-elevation trail that crosses the Rockies, owes its existence largely to Gudy Gaskill, a…
Below The Three Apostles, Colorado Trail Jeff Miller and Dave Marston, Matt Smith Photo
More40 years of living with wolves
Biologist Diane K. Boyd has had a front-row seat to 40 years of wolf recovery in the West, but her…
MoreHikers in a wilderness turn into firefighters
More frequent wildfires in the West can turn hiking through beautiful, high-elevation country into a dangerous game for hikers. In…
Abandoned Ranch buildings above a meadow of Deer Creek south of Anacanda, Montana. Picture taken in late July.
MoreGo all-electric—and help change the world
The company I work for recently built a new ticket office at the base of Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado….
MoreGrumpy talk on the trail
I suppose it’s the human thing on a hiking trail to acknowledge one another when passing. But on a well-used…
MoreMontana’s politicians have lost their ties to land
Tim Sheehy, the Republican seeking to unseat Montana Democratic Senator Jon Tester, is a business executive born and raised out…
Montana, plains Lee Peters image, via Unsplash
MoreCoal continues its precipitous decline
The coal mining industry reacted with outrage when the Bureau of Land Management recently announced plans to stop issuing new…
MoreOne person who cares can change a student’s life
By the time she took the dais at the Arapaho Charter High School graduation this spring, Principal Katie Law was…
Katie Law hands out a diploma, Katie Klingsporn image
MoreMountain bikers push to ride through wilderness
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed…” —…
Denali Wilderness, Alaska, courtesy Wilderness Watch
MoreBefore you sleep on the ground, read this
What fun: You’re going on a guided outdoor trip. As you get ready, here are some tips from actual guides…
Backpackers in the White Goat Wilderness, Alberta, Canada
MoreDitch “inefficiencies” give us wetlands
Imagine Westerners waking up one morning only to discover that many of their most cherished wetlands have dried up, gone….
Since 1917, five generations have lived along the Animas Consolidated Ditch outside of Durango, CO, Patty Zink pictured, courtesy Dave Marston
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