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High-altitude pika may signal climate change

As you start hiking through the talus, watching the clouds gather overhead, you hear it. A very distinct squeak. Did your dog find a squeaky toy hidden in the rocks? Probably not. Then you h...

DATE: Jul 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

One last sunset

Suicides in western national parks

DATE: Jul 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

The Tupperware model of selling solar

ARIZONA AND THE NATION It is puzzling, perhaps, that solar power accounts for less than 1 percent of the electricity generated in the United States. The cost of solar panels conti...

DATE: Jul 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Heard Around the West

Wildfires

We can’t say<br/>‘no more’ anymore

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Praising a Biden on guns

Nuclear efficiency systems engineer Jeremy Preston moved back into his house in Delaware from Tennessee, where his license to carry a concealed weapon was also legal in Delaware. ...

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

Monuments ... blah. National parks ... ooh!

There’s been a lot of hoopla and public meetings here in Grand Junction, Colo., about turning the nearby Colorado National Monument into a national park. My opinion is simply: Why not? ...

DATE: Jul 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Treasures don’t have to be parks

As a close neighbor and regular user of Colorado National Monument in western Colorado close to Grand Junction, I suffered a sharp attack of NIMBYism when I heard of a 2011 proposal to turn ...

DATE: Jul 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Books and children

Early-literacy programs<br/>build firm foundation<br/>for a child’s later success

DATE: Jul 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: MECC Cares for kids

Ford’s legacy transporting disabled vets

After being wounded during the WWI Meuse-Argonne Offensive in November 1918 then Capt., now Superior Court Judge, Robert Marx hosted a Christmas party in 1920. During the party, discussion c...

DATE: Jul 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Veterans Forum

Much more than a meal and a bed

Bridge helps meet needs beyond basic shelter and food

DATE: Jul 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Electronic gadgets, attention span

A recent report from the Kaiser Family Foundation states that children spend an average of seven and a half hours each day staring at a screen, whether it’s a television, a computer or some ...

DATE: Jul 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

Surrendering privacy from the cradle to the grave

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon p...

DATE: Jul 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons