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When Carolyn Shelton began working at southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in 2001, she expected to leave it in better shape for the next generation. Fifteen years later, in...
DATE: Aug. 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
WASHINGTON – The call of the wild is getting harder to hear. Peaceful, natural sounds – bird songs, rushing rivers and rustling grass – are sometimes being drowned out by noise from people in many...
DATE: July 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
It would be a first for a U.S. national park: requiring reservations to get in. But it’s an option that Zion National Park is considering to manage an overwhelming surge of visitors to its sweeping...
DATE: July 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
DURANGO – Twelve years ago, Ken Martin of Steamworks Brewing Co. wanted to try a unique recipe that would tie a local brew to the San Juan Mountains. It would be modeled after an Olde English ale...
DATE: July 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
DURANGO – The San Juan National Forest offers permits for collecting everything from corral and tepee poles, firewood, fence stays, walking sticks and Christmas trees to boughs, pine cones,...
DATE: July 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
About eight months after Mesa Verde Country received a grant to create audio tours of Montezuma County’s historical sites, the first of three is available online . Kelly Kirkpatrick, director of...
DATE: July 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
ALBUQUERQUE – The battle over the Trump administration’s review of two national monuments in New Mexico is bringing up a historic clash that goes back generations and is tainted by race, heritage...
DATE: July 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
FARMINGTON – A fish that federal officials say was once widely known as the “salmon of the Southwest” is showing signs of recovering its diminished population in the San Juan River basin....
DATE: July 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The Anasazi Heritage Center and Canyons of the Ancients National Monument will host Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt, who will present the lecture “Of Coyotes and Moon Landings” on Saturday, July 29....
DATE: July 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
A Congressional committee vote on Tuesday amounts to a death warrant for the mustangs and wild burros that roam America’s range land, an advocate for the animals said. The House Appropriations...
DATE: July 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News
ALBUQUERQUE – Laughter can combat trauma. Spiritual cleansings could be used to fight an opioid addiction. Cactus extract may battle diabetes and obesity. These insights are from curanderismo –...
DATE: July 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
For a second summer, high school students spent two weeks learning about science – and having fun. Through Mountain Studies Institute’s Experience Mountain Science Program, kids in grades 10, 11...
DATE: July 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life