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Images from the Extreme Social Distance

I went back to the Home-country — i.e. the Four Corners — in February and March, and headed out to … More

art, colorado, FourCornersCountry, Photography, spring, Utah

March 1, 2020, San Juan Snowpack update

Average to middling. That describes the San Juan Mountain snowpack as of March 1 — at least at the higher … More

AnimasRiver, Climate, colorado, snowpack

San Juan Mountain water year 2020 starts dry, but is on the upswing

The 2020 water year (which started Oct. 1, 2019) began like a desiccated whimper in the San Juan Mountains of … More

Climate, colorado, Drought, sanjuanmountains, snow, weather, winter

Gold King documents and map unearthed

While going down a wormhole the other day, I stumbled across a variety of documents on the Gold King Mine … More

#GoldKing, #RiverOfLostSoulsBook, colorado, environment, environmental history, EPA, history, mining, Superfund

Gold King water treatment shutdown: Bad, but not catastrophic

Alarm bells went off throughout the Animas and San Juan River drainages this weekend when big storms and the historically … More

#GoldKing, #RiverOfLostSoulsBook, colorado, environment, mining, Pollution

The War for the Roads

This story by Jonathan P. Thompson ran in the Silverton Mountain Journal in winter of 2002. Given the historic avalanche … More

avalanche, colorado, history, Silverton, snowpack, transportation

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

avalanche, Climate, colorado, Drought, snowpack

Photo essay: Summer ’18, Four Corners and beyond

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

arizona, colorado, idaho, Photography, travel, Utah

Last Ditch Standing: A tale of water inequality in the West

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

climatechange, colorado, Drought, WesternWater

The inundation of Utah’s ‘Mighty Five’ national parks, in four charts

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

#BearsEars, arches, colorado, industrial tourism, mesaverde, mighty5, nationalparks, PublicLands, Utah, zion

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