An invitation to play the climate-change game
Let’s play a game, the climate-change game that every living thing on Earth has no choice but to play, starting…
Dead Horse State Park, Moab, Utah, Andres Haro, Unsplash
MorePepper Trail: There’s so much worth saving
For a long time, climate change was largely perceived as a distant threat. But Oregon biologist Pepper Trail, 70, who…
MoreWe need to know avalanches inside and out
There’s a fine line between learning from the mistakes of others and shaming people for their ignorance. Twelve people have…
Image by Will Turner, via Unsplash
MoreCulture wars and an embattled Utah monument
Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument rarely leaves the news. The political tussle over this stunning expanse of red rock canyons…
Rainbow over Cheesebox Butte- Highway 95, photo by Stephen Trimble
MoreWe know now that free land wasn’t free
There’s a place in South Dakota, about 25 miles north of Wall Drug, that some locals still call “Jew Flats.”…
Badlands National Park, South Dakota, Joshua Hubbard via Unsplash
MoreFreed wolves move into their old niche
What was it like for 10 captured Oregon wolves when Colorado Parks and Wildlife opened their crates on a December…
MoreGlen Canyon Dam has created a world of mud
When the San Juan River flows out of the San Juan Mountains in Southwestern Colorado, it contributes 15% of Lake…
Calving sediment below Clay Hills, UT San Juan River, courtesy Chad Niehaus
MoreWar comes home to my small town
At the coffee shops in Talent, the little Oregon town where I live, the conversation is often about the high…
War is not the answer, Matt Witt photo
MoreRosa Parks gives a talk in my small town
It was 2 p.m. on a recent Sunday in the western Colorado town of Paonia, population 1,500, not an ideal…
Rosa Parks, Unseen Histories, Unsplash
MoreYou’re not the boss in wilderness
When my friends and I encountered the fresh grizzly bear scat, we were deep in Wyoming’s Teton Wilderness, 20 miles…
Buck Lake, Frank Church RIver of no Return Wilderness; Challis Idaho: courtesy USFS
MoreCollaboration gets you farther than insults
Is there any habit harder to break than harboring a grudge against an old adversary? Yet burying hatchets is exactly…
Taylor Brandon via Unsplash
MoreTown unites to fight a floodplain development
Moab, Utah is a growing town of 5,300 that several million people visit each year to tour nearby Arches and…
Colorado River near Moab, Utah/Courtesy Writers on the Range
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