New Mexico’s state budget depends on oil and gas for the bulk of the funds powering our state government. One third of the budget in 2019 came from oil and …
Category: Climate change
Ignorance is Bliss: Blocking Science and the Public on Public Lands
Society is impossible without government. Even wolf packs have a rudimentary form of government. Government without science and facts as the basis for decision making is indeed tyranny. Yet it …
Virus Could Devastate Wildland Fire Agencies This Summer
Ready for fire season? Ready for those billows of gray smoke from forest fires all over the West? Ready to worry about your home or your town when firestorms come? …
Virus? What the H**l is That?
All this talk in the news about the coronavirus got me to thinking about viruses. That’s not much of a stretch but I realized that most people have no idea …
Destroying our Nation’s Environment for Money and Ideology
Now we have an administration that is bent on erasing a century of laws created by liberals and conservatives alike that protect our environment and keep our children from breathing toxic air and drinking poisonous water.
Colorado’s Forgotten Valley
By Tom Ribe Busy cities, gleaming ski areas, young families hiking and biking in the latest gear; this is the Colorado outsiders may think they know. But the state …
Australia’s Federalist System Catches on Fire
Australia and the US have vastly different wildland management a fire management approaches. Australia’s comes up short.
The Vanishing Colorado River
The Colorado River is in the midst of an 18 year long drought that may well be the norm going into the future with huge ramifications for millions of people.
Flushing Out Trump’s Appliance Views
By Tom Ribe While many readers find Trump reprehensible, his place as the leader of the conservative movement in America and abroad makes even his most laughable views cause …
Burning Down the House
I recently went to Tucson for to join wild land fire specialists gathered to talk about the particular science of fire moving across the land, through the trees, through …
