San Juan Snowpack 2019: Big, but not the biggest (yet)

Let there be no doubt: It has been a snowy winter in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, along … More

Musings on the pro-nuke movement

Preface: In December, High Country News published a story of mine titled, Is nuclear energy the key to saving the … More

It’s a gray day here in Bulgaria, which has me yearning for warmer, sunnier days and the desert and mountains … More

When he was elected, President Donald Trump promised that he’d achieve American energy dominance by rolling back regulations on oil … More

Way back when I was a teenager, I spent summers at my dad’s house outside of Cortez, Colorado. I had … More

The Bureau of Land Management released its finalized Bears Ears National Monument management plan on Feb. 6, despite the fact … More

My parents have a small garlic farm in Western Colorado in the valley of the North Fork of the Gunnison … More

Are the national parks and monuments of the American West getting overrun by hordes of tourists? The short answer: Yes. … More

Back in June, as the 416 Fire raged outside of Durango, Colorado, I wrote an essay about how the conflagration … More

To drive west out of Farmington is to travel through the borderland, where the northeastern edge of the Navajo Nation … More