One of the most beautiful and unique experiences in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico are the high grasslands in the mountains surrounding the Valles Caldera and in the …
Category: Climate change
Drought Over in the Southwest?
As the summer rains come to the four corners area, white thunderheads loom over mountains still heavily covered in white snow from last winter. People have been skiing remote strands …
Natural Gas is not the Answer
New Mexico’s State budget is dominated by money from oil and gas production. It has been for 70 years. During that time our state has dropped to the bottom …
Oil Spill in Animas and other Oil Industry Disasters
This week, British Petroleum Corporation (BP) created an Animas River oil spill. BP has dumped oil and fraking fluids into the Animas River near Durango, Colorado. The company spilled fraking …
Key Environmental Issues in New Mexico Governor’s Race
This November we chose a new governor in New Mexico. After eight years of population decline and economic stagnation under Suzanna Martinez, we have a chance to change course. The …
Cross the Rockies by Trail Above Santa Fe; Incredible Hike
My 25 year old niece joined us for the beginning two miles of our annual “up and over” hike from the Santa Fe Ski Basin to the Winsor trailhead in …
Nowhere More Beautiful: The San Juan Loop
Leaving the low country and heading into the high country means sensory overload, pleasure, bliss, extreme exercise, danger, possibility of hypothermia, nudity, clinging to rocks with toes and fingertips and …
Tripping in the San Juan Mountains
The San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado define the four corners region. They dominate the skyline from a vast area of Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. Their massive peaks …
Beer Without Hops?????
Anyone with an ounce of sense agrees that craft beers are a good thing with few downsides. Quality beer tastes good, it hydrates you and provides nutrition. Most of all …
Budweiser as National Environmental Leader?
As a compulsive litter collector along the roadsides of the American West, I have found that Bud Lite cans are the most littered beer cans, by far. But even if …
