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Position: Writers on the Range
Position: Editor, Writer on the Range
Suddenly its the end of summer, and everything is different: The light has started to tilt and deepen, and the landscape has that burnished look, as if its been drenched in honey and ripened by...
DATE: Sept. 8, 2011 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
Last month, three little girls, ages 8, 5 and 2, and their mother, were killed in a Wyoming flash flood that washed away their van. It was the kind of torrential downpour climatologists predict...
DATE: Aug. 27, 2011 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
One recent evening, a friend and I walked along a mountain creek in central Colorado that only a few hours before had been covered with snow. Boulders once visible had been replaced by froth and...
DATE: July 23, 2011 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
After riding for 25 years atop my old English 10-speed with the skinny steel wheels and tape-wrapped handlebars, I finally bought one of those fancy, 21-speed mountain bikes.When I got the new bike...
DATE: July 19, 2011 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
No big thing happens for just one reason. This seasons fires, cutting broad swaths across the Southwest, result from the convergence of three powerful forces: climatic drought, institutional...
DATE: July 2, 2011 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
IDAHOWhen the real estate market went bananas in the middle of the last decade, Teton County, Idaho, couldnt approve new subdivisions fast enough. In fact, the Idaho valley, which is located just...
DATE: May 7, 2011 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
As a career country gal, I take pride in finding the most efficient or at least the shortest route between two points. In our mountain country of Wyoming, that is not always a straight line or...
DATE: April 9, 2011 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
MONTANAIts a Tea Party world in Montanas Legislature these days, and Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a Democrat, sometimes cant believe his ears as newly elected representatives talk blithely of creating...
DATE: April 2, 2011 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
I am not just marrying a man; I am marrying a town.In my first, brief marriage, my husband and I were both newcomers to the Alaska town where we spent our married life. The locals werent...
DATE: March 26, 2011 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
At first its hard to tell what were looking at. The tiny plane bumps and bounces through turbulence that warns of a winter storm. Beyond the window, rolling mountains spread east from Colorados...
DATE: March 12, 2011 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
