Dear HCN, The other day I touched snow for the first time since 1995, when my wife and I fled the snow, ice and cold of Colorado after 50 years of residency. We moved to Southern California, where we could view the cursed stuff only on mountains far in the distance. A pickup truck just […]
Bob Child
Posted inApril 14, 1997: Beauty and the Beast
A tough fighter
Dear HCN, It was with sadness that I read of our loss of Ruth Hutchins, one of the noblest of fighters for a sane Colorado water policy. My first contact with Ruth was a Sunday telephone call to me in my then capacity as a Colorado River Water Conservation District director. She talked at such […]
Posted inDecember 6, 1974: Ranching industry on the rocks
Ranching industry on the rocks
The cattleman now finds himself confronted by an array of problems — inflation, sluggish markets, water conflicts — not seen since the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/6.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E