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Position: Editor, Writer on the Range
As a close neighbor and regular user of Colorado National Monument in western Colorado close to Grand Junction, I suffered a sharp attack of NIMBYism when I heard of a 2011 proposal to turn one of...
DATE: July 11, 2013 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
The enormous column of black smoke towered before me. As the Hammer Fire closed in on the backcountry workstation that I call home in the summer, fear spread from my hard hat to the soles of my...
DATE: July 4, 2013 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
Stepping onto the stage of the Sheridan Opera House in Telluride, Colo., his biceps bulging after chopping vegetables six hours a day for 21 months while in prison, Tim DeChristopher got a standing...
DATE: June 17, 2013 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
At any given moment, 20 million people are video chatting with friends and relatives in distant lands. Skype, the ingenious software that makes this possible, was developed in Estonia, a tiny...
DATE: May 30, 2013 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
I love mountain biking. And the trails I ride in Western Colorado are as good as anyplace you can boast about. But it's no secret that throughout much of the western United States, many of the...
DATE: March 29, 2013 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
Since 1872, mining interests have made billions of dollars by removing and selling valuable minerals from our public lands without having to pay a cent to the American taxpayer. This is one of the...
DATE: March 20, 2013 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
Looking down into a valley near the edge of Lake Mead, it was hard to believe that the bustling town of St. Thomas had ever thrived below. A woman shielded her eyes from the October sun and asked...
DATE: March 1, 2013 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
President Obama's nominee for heading the Department of Interior, Sally Jewell, is historic - not for who she is, but for who she is not.She is a mountaineer, an ultra-marathon runner, a CEO of...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2013 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
THE WESTMarketers can sell anything, it seems, even metaphors. You can now buy an air freshener that mimics not the true scent of a national park, which might be a noxious blend of car exhaust and...
DATE: Nov. 23, 2012 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
Since March 2010, Ive become intimately acquainted with many of the things that people in our society no longer want to live with: empty liquor bottles, deflated soccer balls, the guts of deer,...
DATE: Nov. 19, 2012 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
WASHINGTONA 15-to-20-pound, 6-or-7-foot-long Burmese python, variously described as albino, yellow or closer to brown with some yellow areas, escaped into a park in northeast Seattle, a situation...
DATE: Oct. 30, 2012 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
No one doubts that our nation cannot continue to plunge deeper in debt while borrowing huge sums each year. Most of us also admit that addressing this crisis will require deep cuts in domestic and...
DATE: Oct. 27, 2012 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
