When mountain lion management turns to quackery
This year, in what it calls a “study,” Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources is killing off mountain lions in an effort…
A mountain lion drinking from a spring. Photo by David Niels, Wild Nature Media
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Utah Republican Congresswoman Celeste Maloy is irritated. Her most recent attack on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument spurred wide and deep…
MoreSandstone towers challenge this rescue team
I was high up on a cliff above Moab, Utah, as night was falling, and I couldn’t find my way…
Grand County Search and Rescue members rigging a technical rope rescue on the top of Castleton Tower near Moab. Photo courtesy Grand County Search and Rescue
MoreJane Goodall told us never give up
In her “Last Words” interview that was broadcast after her death, Jane Goodall talked about her calm in the face…
The Lee-Curtis proposal would bring OHV traffic into the wildness and quiet of Cathedral Valley in Capitol Reef National Park. Photo courtesy Stephen Trimble
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Ninety-five-thousand-acre Utah Lake is a major water source for the Great Salt Lake. If it dries up or sickens, so…
MoreAn ugly tower threatens Bears Ears National Monument
My Navajo homeland is the great expanse of land between four sacred mountains in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah….
MoreWe won’t forget what happened 101 years ago
One hundred and one years ago, my Ute ancestors were forced to live within a barbed-wire camp in Blanding, a…
La Sal Range in Northern San Juan County, Utah, courtesy Wikimedia Commons
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
MoreWhat did Westerners care about in 2023?
This past year, Writers on the Range, an independent opinion service based in western Colorado, sent out 52 weekly opinion…
Arches National Park, image courtesy Writers on the Range
MoreThe West has too many visiting hunters
Hunting may be losing popularity nationally, but in the West the number of hunters is climbing. According to the U.S….
Dan Vigueria, Paonia, Colorado, Grizzly Longbows LLC
MoreWe can help shape this Utah monument
When President Joe Biden restored the original boundaries of both Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments in 2021, public-land…
Grand Staircase Escalante, Unsplash/Halie West
MoreBackcountry heroes always try to bring us back
When I was leading groups into the Wyoming wilderness in the 1990s, once we left a trailhead we were on…
The Tetons in Wyoming, a great place to get lost, photo by Mike
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