As the outdoor industry ramps up its advocacy, it faces tough questions from Indigenous recreators.
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Posted inMay 14, 2018: Death in the Alpine
The nowhereness of airports
The way air travel has devolved says something awful about humans.
Posted inMay 14, 2018: Death in the Alpine
How might humans and wilderness co-exist?
I want my daughter to know the wilderness outside our cabin, and the wildness within each of us.
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A revolution in hydropower makes waves in rural Colorado
Big dams were the hydro giants of yesteryear. The future of hydropower is small.
Posted inJune 11, 2018: Reclaiming the Klamath
A hedge-fund owner is ‘murdering The Denver Post’
Without jobs, journalists can’t be the watchdogs of democracy.
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A sheriff’s dilemma in the face of Trump’s immigration agenda
How the controversy over ‘sanctuary cities’ is playing out in the rural West.
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Arizona agency angers Colorado River users upstream
The spat offers a preview of what water politics could look like in a drier future.
Posted inApril 30, 2018: Celebrity Scofflaw
The long road from violence
A writer reexamines the stories we tell of rural life and struggle.
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What happens in a small town when the gas goes out?
A writer ponders his community’s dependence on natural gas in its absence.
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In Colorado’s conservative corners, a push for gun control
Grand Junction teens broach a tense topic with community members.
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All (climate) politics is local
During a dry spring, Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet visits rural Colorado to talk economics and agriculture.
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America is overlooking its biggest gun problem
Mass shootings capture our attention, but suicide is responsible for more deaths.
Posted inApril 16, 2018: Cashing in on Standing Rock
Frackin’ on heaven’s door
How many people over the centuries have loved the Pawnee Buttes, only to see them ravaged?
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Drilling, one mile outside Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes
Opposition swells against leases that could impede wildlife migration corridors.
Posted inApril 16, 2018: Cashing in on Standing Rock
Latest: Toxic-tinged wildlife refuge deemed safe for visitors
But conservation groups fear contamination at Colorado’s Rocky Flats still lingers.
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Did Fort Collins grow too big too fast?
The Colorado city’s unwieldy expansion offers a cautionary tale for similar Western locales.
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Exchange or exploitation? Ski towns turn to foreign students
The J-1 program is the main source of migrant labor for the ski industry.
Posted inApril 16, 2018: Cashing in on Standing Rock
A flurry of research illuminates snow’s foes
New studies detail how hotter temperatures, humid air and wind-blown dust can pummel the Western snowpack.
Posted inMarch 19, 2018: Desert, Divided
Video: The end of snow
A film explores how people will adapt to a future with less snow.
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Undocumented: A life, a home and a family in the rural West
What it’s like for one undocumented woman and her family in Trump’s America.