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Thank you, John McPhee

In the final part of John McPhee’s 1971 classic, Encounters with the Archdruid, David Brower and Floyd Dominy — both men I would have loved to meet — raft the Grand Canyon together. ...

DATE: Sep 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

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

Learning to live with wildfire

The enormous column of black smoke towered before me. As the Hammer Fire closed in on the backcountry workstation that I call home in the summer, fear spread from my hard hat to the soles of...

DATE: Jul 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Hard choices for an uncertain future

Stepping onto the stage of the Sheridan Opera House in Telluride, Colo., his biceps bulging after chopping vegetables six hours a day for 21 months while in prison, Tim DeChristopher got a s...

DATE: Jun 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

No thanks, Estonia

At any given moment, 20 million people are video chatting with friends and relatives in distant lands. Skype, the ingenious software that makes this possible, was developed in Estonia, a tin...

DATE: May 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

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