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Let’s scrap the stigma of mental illness

By Dave Marston

Even though one in five Americans is estimated to suffer from mental health illness, talk about mental health in the…

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Public land protectors are ready for a fight

By Jennifer Rokala

President Donald Trump’s first term was a disaster for America’s public lands. While the prospects for his second term are…

The Citadel, Bears Ears National Monument, Dave Marston photo

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Nature is becoming unreliable

By Pepper Trail

Twice a year, I hike a favorite trail in Oregon’s Cascade Range. I have done this for over 20 years,…

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The Trump triumph portends an economic fallout

By Dave Marston

As I watched Donald Trump arrive at an astounding victory election night, I was struck by his strong turnout in…

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Grizzly 399 was a bear for the ages

By Kristin Combs Wendy Keefover

She was 28 years old and dealt with aplomb the hordes of picture-taking tourists and repeated motherhood. When she was…

Bear 399 with cubs Thomas Mangelsen:Images of Nature Gallery

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Acidic mine drainage haunts Western rivers

By Dave Marston

It was the summer of 2015 when the Animas River in southern Colorado turned such a garish orange-gold that it…

Reid Christopher in font of textile bags, mining ruins in background, Gladstone Treatment Plant, San Miguel County, CO. Dave Marston photojpg

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How to learn where we live

By Dorothy Bradley

I was driving on Montana’s Highway 89 just as fall began showing up at one of my favorite spots for…

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Wyoming shoots itself in the foot

By Jonathan Thompson

This summer, the Biden administration offered Wyoming $35 million to help the state plug and clean up abandoned oil and…

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We need mountain lions to do their job as predators

By Dan Ashe

I am a former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and have hunted practically as long as I…

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Glen Canyon Dam faces deadpool

By Zak Podmore

In 1998, when I was in fourth grade, I joined a class field trip to Mesa Verde National Park in…

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How a controversial poison saved Utah Lake

By Ted Williams

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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Volunteers power the Colorado Trail

By Dave Marston

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

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Writers on the Range has been a godsend for the Las Vegas Sun, filling a critical need for columns on regional issues of importance to our community, to Southern Nevada and our entire state.

Although the Sun is well-served through contracts with the New York Times News Service and Tribune News Service, the columns we receive from those syndicates tend to focus mostly on national issues. That’s where Writers on the Range has been invaluable to us. The group’s focus on Western issues – water conservation, the drought and climate change, environmental protection for fragile desert areas and more – allow the Sun to provide its audience with content that illuminates and adds to the public dialogue
on policy.

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Ric Anderson, Editorial Page Editor
Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas, NV

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