Predators can change how large animals like elk use the landscape and can also preclude excessive browsing of critical areas like riparian zones
Category: environmental politics
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 …
Owls, White Cows, Susan’s Beer Taps
Fire and Owls Land managers at the Valles Caldera National Preserve went forward with a prescribed burn in the Banco Bonito area on the southwest corner of the Preserve …
Bureau of Land Management Under Attack
Trumping the BLM by Tom Ribe Ever since public lands were made permanent parts of the American experience around the turn of the last century, there have been people …
Canada Bonito – Meadow Extrodinair
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 …
Bandelier Must not Become a National Park
Recently, Senator Martin Heinrich introduced a bill in the US Senate to change Bandelier National Monument to “Bandelier National Park”. His bill would raise the profile of Bandelier and …
