Harry Goulding, Monument Valley, Hollywood and yellowcake
A Durango man’s complicated legacy on the Navajo Nation
DATE: Nov 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Scourge of the West: ‘Wild’ vs. feral horses on public lands
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has it wrong. Like other well-meaning, environmental-leaning Americans, he thinks that wild horses on federal public lands deserve special considerations. It’s time...
DATE: Oct 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Tales from the Grand Canyon’s North Rim
Fewer visitors make the trek to this side of the canyon, which has its own rich history
DATE: Sep 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Go with the FLOW: Fort Lewis College launches new river education program
Fort Lewis College has established a new signature program at the heart of outdoor education and experiential learning in the Four Corners. The FLOW program, or Fort Lewis on Water, is about...
DATE: Aug 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Saving great landscapes of the American West
Conservation Lands Foundation promotes grassroots approach to protecting lands
DATE: Jul 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Making Bears Ears whole: The big swap with Utah state lands
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and President Joe Biden are considering the restoration of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument.
Native American tribes and environmental organizations ...
DATE: Jun 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Al and Betty: Citizen scientists
Botanists discover Four Corners plants
DATE: May 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Tale of a transferred transfer station: Talking trash in San Juan County, Utah
Nobody can dispute the dollars. Or the slap at Native peoples. In a sordid history of broken treaties with tribes, this has a new twist – taking away a transfer station (or a waste dump) tha...
DATE: Apr 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
A mosaic, not a melting pot: La Plata County and immigrants
Some bumper stickers read: “Colorado native.” Others offer: “Not native, but I got here as fast as I could.”
We are a state of immigrants. Immigrants built the roads and bridges, ...
DATE: Mar 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Keeping the ancients warm: Ancestral Puebloans created turkey feather blankets
I love seeing turkeys in ponderosa woods, moving slowly uphill like priests absorbed in morning prayers.
At twilight, they are dark shapes seeking acorns and insects, always leav...
DATE: Feb 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Smokestacks come down: The end of an era in Page, Arizona
On the morning of Dec. 18, massive simultaneous explosions leveled three huge 775-foot-tall smokestacks at Page, Arizona.
It was the end of an era for the Navajo Generating Stati...
DATE: Jan 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
Lost and hungry scouts: A Mormon Christmas story
During the Christmas season of 1879, four Mormon scouts navigated the treacherous canyons of Utah to establish Bluff
DATE: Dec 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels
