Writers on the Range - The Durango Herald

Pepper Trail: We blame the trees, but whose fault is it?

Just like you, I live with the fear of wildfire. My southern Oregon town of Ashland nestles against the foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains, the forests of which become tinder in our hot, d...

DATE: May 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Marcie Carter: No more gold mines

As a citizen of the Nez Perce, or Nimíipuu, which means “The People,” I look at gold mining as a symbol of broken promises. In 1855, when my ancestors entered into a treaty with the United S...

DATE: May 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Jonathan Thompson: We need the same resolve to tackle virus, climate

In the time of coronavirus, I headed to southern Utah’s remote canyon country to do some extreme social distancing. All I knew when I emerged a few days later in western Colorado...

DATE: Apr 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Gary Wockner: The damming truth about the Colorado River

The magnitude of the Colorado River’s decline (because of climate change) as outlined in the Science paper is “eye popping.” – Brad Udall, senior scientist at Colorado State University ...

DATE: Mar 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

David Marston: Sad Colorado city fights back – with windmills

For nearly half a century, coal powered the blast furnaces of the 1,410-megawatt Comanche Power Generating station in Pueblo, the city of 110,000 in southern Colorado. You can’t miss Comanch...

DATE: Feb 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Get used to the new normal: The West is burning

California’s apocalyptic fires are a side effect of modern life – megafires, firenados, constantly drifting smoke. The words seem to come straight out of the latest apocalyptic superhero fli...

DATE: Sep 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Enlist ranchers in fight against climate change

If you are worried about climate change, these are not the best of times. The decision by the U.S. Senate to postpone climate legislation and the failure of last years Copenhagen summi...

DATE: Oct 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range