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By Ben Bain After one of the driest years on record, we experienced one of the wettest winters. What does it mean for vegetation and weeds this summer? The good news is that there will be a lot of...
DATE: June 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
People living with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain have a new option for treatment in Durango, in the form of an old medication called ketamine. Dr. Dan Caplin opened...
DATE: June 20, 2019 | UPDATED: 3 days 15 hours ago | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
It’s not easy gardening in Southwest Colorado – with its erratic temperature fluctuations, whipping winds and snowstorms that could hit pretty much at any time. But still, people make it happen....
DATE: June 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The Dolores Ranger District of the San Juan National Forest has released a draft Environmental Assessment for an aspen logging project. The proposed project targets mature aspen stands in five...
DATE: June 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
ASPEN (AP) – When Garett Reppenhagen returned from Iraq, the need to process the trauma of war led him into Colorado’s backcountry. “My natural instinct was to get outdoors,” he said. “The outdoors...
DATE: June 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Expert and enthusiast bird-watchers in Colorado are having a ball right now thanks to several late snowstorms and this spring’s long stretch of cold weather. Arvind Panjabi, an avian conservation...
DATE: June 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Supporting young farmers to grow food destined for the dinner tables of underserved populations sounds like a win-win for all involved. But can it work, realistically and financially? An effort is...
DATE: June 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
When Dee George was about 7 years old, his family moved to the outskirts of Carlsbad, New Mexico, where they bought an acre of land, set up a mobile home and planted mulberry trees. They had a...
DATE: May 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Big Picture High School sophomore Ava Aragon taught her peers how to focus on the flame of a candle this spring to help them calm down. The lesson was part of a class focused on understanding...
DATE: May 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Health
The terracotta mesas and umber buttes reveal that this is an exceptional place. Yet not one sign from the Bureau of Land Management or the U.S. Forest Service, the two federal agencies that jointly...
DATE: May 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
When it comes to how wildlife adjust to living in forests ravaged by the beetle outbreak in Colorado, there are winners and losers, according to new research. The mountain pine and spruce beetle...
DATE: May 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
PHOENIX – The U.S. government plans on replacing barriers through 100 miles of the southern border in California and Arizona, including through a national monument and a wildlife refuge, according...
DATE: May 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
