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Writers on the Range: When water dries up, it can be deadly

In Oregon, the Klamath Basin wildlife refuges have fallen into their winter silence now. The huge, clamorous flocks of geese that fill the sky during migration have moved south. Last summe...

DATE: Jan 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Harrison Raine: Time to support wildland firefighters

By mid-September, there was no one left to call. The West, with its thousands of federal, state and local fire engines and crews, had been tapped out. Wildfires across the West had con...

DATE: Dec 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Proposed gun law threatens sport

I grew up in a small house on a dirt road along the San Juan River, with a father who hunted to put food on our table and taught me firearm safety. But today, fewer Americans than ever are ...

DATE: Feb 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Kidd: NEH grant to Crow Canyon pays dividends

Earlier this month, the National Endowment for the Humanities, which has supported the valuable work of Colorado Humanities and other cultural organizations for four decades, announced a new...

DATE: Aug 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Rigney: Sen. Gardner, act now to preserve the LWCF

At Osprey – a leading manufacturer of outdoor gear employing over 115 people in the U.S. – we believe that adventure is open to everyone. Nowhere does that feel more true than in...

DATE: Aug 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Bears Ears: Don’t dismantle the sacred spirit of the land

On Dec. 4, 2017, President Donald Trump traveled to Utah to announce his attempt to undo the Bears Ears National Monument. His actions shrink the size of the protected landscape and reduce t...

DATE: Jul 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Saying goodbye to Kat

I had to say goodbye to a friend today, and I’m not sure how I’m doin’ just yet. Katrina, Kat for short, was a big beautiful bay mare. Registered paint, “breeding stock.” She was...

DATE: Jun 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

James: Self-raised and it shows

Anyone who knows me very well will tell you that I’m not the most fastidious man that ever lived. My second wife – I’ve been encouraged not to refer to them as ex-wife No. 1 or N...

DATE: Jun 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Noxious weed management underway in Mancos

In May, the town of Mancos received a letter from Montezuma County urging us to better manage the noxious weeds that have proliferated over the last few years on town-owned parks, and to enc...

DATE: Jun 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Parker: Roseanne’s ouster shows times are changing

WASHINGTON – Roseanne Barr’s appeal has so long eluded me that her further fall from disgrace has failed to dislodge even the slightest pebble of pity, though pitiful she is. It s...

DATE: Jun 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Parker: Philadelphia’s unnecessary war on Catholics

WASHINGTON – At a time when more than 400,000 children are in foster care nationwide, the city of Philadelphia is threatening to cut ties with Catholic Social Services because of the group’s...

DATE: May 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The globalization of threats is an unavoidable fact

WASHINGTON – Those who find “globalists” to be villains should attend to recent events in Congo. In the remote region of a remote country, government agencies and international institutions ...

DATE: May 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns