Writers on the Range

The West is an exploiter’s paradise

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High on a mesa where everyone can see it, a trophy house is going up in the northern Colorado valley where I live. Some...

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...

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...

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...

Fear and the depleted Colorado River

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Some Colorado River tribulations today remind me of a folk story: A young man went to visit his fiancée and found the family trembling...

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...