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Our beloved Animas River has taken a shellacking the past few years, the most recent insults a combination of record low flows and wildfire induced mudslides. The Animas might be the blaring alarm...
DATE: Sept. 15, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Are we doomed to the zombie Village at Wolf Creek endlessly stalking the San Juan Mountains? No matter how many times apparently dead, it seemingly staggers back to life, lurching with a blank...
DATE: Aug. 18, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
By the time Scott Pruitt resigned as the Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator, he was the poster child for bungling personal entitlement. As Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa put it,...
DATE: July 21, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Fifty years ago, Congress passed the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. It was a counterpoint to the West’s flurry of dam-building in the 1950s and 1960s that saw dams erected across many of the region’s...
DATE: June 16, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
With spring full bore upon us, it’s hard not to cast an envious eye toward the high country and start daydreaming about alpine wildflower hikes. One favorite destination for many is Ice Lake Basin...
DATE: May 19, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
This year’s La Plata Electric Association board election is a pivotal referendum on the future of our electric supply. Are co-op members happy with the status quo, being joined at the hip for the...
DATE: April 21, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Five years versus five days. That succinctly describes the different weights accorded to constituents raising objections to expanded oil and gas leasing in landscapes with special circumstances. As...
DATE: March 17, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
It’s a challenging time for La Plata Electric Association. The electric utility world is undergoing a classic technology disruption, where rapid advances threaten to upend decades-old business...
DATE: Feb. 18, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
It might be easy to chuckle at the silliness of the conspiracy theorists convinced the United Nations is scheming with La Plata County to forcibly relocate rural folks into urban housing centers....
DATE: Jan. 21, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Last week’s events punctuated by the Trump administration’s cavalier abandonment of a century’s worth of American conservation practice is greatly discouraging. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wiped...
DATE: Dec. 16, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
With the onset of winter, it’s never too early to daydream of next year’s adventures. Nowhere compares with the raw, spontaneous wildness of Alaska’s primeval landscapes teeming with abundant...
DATE: Nov. 18, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Last week, the House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee passed a bill to prevent presidents from creating national monuments. It would severely limit the future preservation of many...
DATE: Oct. 20, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
