Thru-hiking the Colorado Trail exposes a “wilderness” that is anything but.
Kyle Boelte
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Half-Blind Valley
Explorations in an urban wilderness.
Posted inMay 18, 2009: The Rise of the Minotaur
Western water in the age of climate change
Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the WestJames Lawrence Powell304 pages, hardcover: $27.50.University of California, 2008. In 1893, at a meeting of the International Irrigation Congress, Major John Wesley Powell, known for his daring exploration of the Colorado River, stood up to grand applause in front of men eager […]
Posted inApril 27, 2009: Got warriors?
Renewing a battered land
Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie LandscapeRichard Manning 238 pages, hardcover: $24.95.University of California Press, 2009. In 1874, when most of the West was still held in common, a simple invention — barbed wire — pushed the region toward a long-held national ideal: privatization. With amazing swiftness, ranchers began to enclose their lands and […]
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Slideshow: The waiting game
When Los Amigos del Parque was founded seven years go, about 20 immigrants waited for work every day near the New Mexico Department of Labor in Santa Fe. Now the human rights outreach group counts 60 or so immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala daily. As the economy weakens and construction lags, these laborers find more […]
Posted inOctober 27, 2008: Prophets and politics
Living with trees
Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to TreesNalini M. Nadkarni336 pages, hardcover: $24.95.University of California, 2008. Between Earth and Sky sets out to describe the many ways in which trees sustain us. When author Nalini Nadkarni was a girl in suburban Maryland, after school she would climb one of the eight maples in her […]