Many people are unhappy when they find livestock grazing inside designated wilderness areas on national forest lands. People hiking the Continental Divide Trail encounter cattle in the Colorado national forests …
Category: environmental politics
Climbing out of the Trump’s Environmental Policy Dumpster
President Biden. Former President Trump. The new year will bring a sea change in environmental policy in the United States. We will move from the world of special interest fantasies, …
Trump is a Radical on the Environment
Who can question that Donald Trump is the most radically anti-environment president in American history? His extreme tilt toward business, contempt for science, and a lack of any personal connection …
A Story of Conservatives Running Away from Local Control
If you live in the rural West, you may get your electricity from a rural electric cooperative. If you do, you are a part owner of that coop and …
Birds One, Trump’s Lawyers Zero
The Trump administration has a strong ideological opposition to regulations and to any sort of environmental protection. This near obsession has put the administration in opposition to every basic environmental …
Solving the West’s Water Crisis, One Cow at a Time
The Southwest is a dry place. Thin streams flowing from the high peaks trail intense green through millions of acres of red, yellow and gray desert landscape. Green fields of …
Blowing Off a Moment of National Reckoning
By Tom Ribe Donald Trump is finally losing on many fronts. Having spent years convincing portions of the public that he is a normal, serious president with the public interest …
Today, Visiting National Parks Endangers Visitors
Summer is here. Americas are hitting the road for the national parks by the tens of thousands. People from all over the country are tired of coronavirus lockdown and they …
Permanent Drought in New Mexico?
Too many people from Colorado to Mexico expect to get water from the Rio Grande and scientists know that climate change is shrinking the Rio Grande as drought grips our region and overall temperatures steadily rise over time.
The Hidden Toilet Paper Crisis
Americans are buying toilet paper like never before. Crowds flocked to the stores as the covid19 crisis began, and for whatever reason, they cleaned out the national toilet paper supply …
