Writers on the Range

As Lake Powell dwindles, wonders open up

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On May 9, protected by neoprene, I bobbed around in a flooded canyon in Utah’s Lake Powell. The reservoir had fallen below 35% full,...

Old bones can be a small town’s movie stars

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The prehistoric past can perk up the present. When woolly mammoth bones were found in my hometown in Wisconsin years ago, they became the...

Wildlife watching has been getting a free ride

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There’s a new initiative in Wyoming that’s changing the face of wildlife conservation funding, and it’s already seen huge success in its first year.  It’s...

A dogged reporter covers our roiling world

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Usually seen with a camera slung around his neck, Allen Best edits a one-man online journalism shop he calls Big Pivots. Its beat is...

Fired up

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At any given moment during this smoky summer of 2023, hundreds of wildfires were blazing in the United States — more than 850 as...

We need to act now to fight wildfires

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For the 2021 fire season, the writing is on the wall. The West, despite a few days of intense winter, is far drier than...

The ‘energy gap’ nobody wants to tussle with

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Many Western states have declared they will achieve all-renewable electrical goals in just two decades. Call me naïve, but haven’t energy experts predicted that...

When no home is affordable, where do you live?

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It’s a common story: Candace McNatt of Durango, in southern Colorado, kept losing bidding wars to buy a house. She finally settled on a...

Atmospheric rivers endanger the West

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Moab, Utah, gets just eight inches of rain per year, yet rainwater flooded John Weisheit’s basement last summer. Extremes are common in a desert:...

Restoring the land can feel like a lot of fun

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Driving back to Colorado State University with a van full of students after a day of work- ing to heal some beat-up land north...

Colorado is conflicted about cutting its water use

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In Colorado, farmers were required to enroll in a four-state program by March 1 if they want to get paid for fallowing their fields,...

It all began with pizza

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In the mid-1960s, my dad served on the school board in Cortez, in rural southern Colorado. He recalled that at one meeting he said...