Winter in Yellowstone National Park reveals wildlife, geothermal features, rivers and quiet with few people while bison, trumpeter swans, river otter and wolves endure the cold. Winter is the time to see Yellowstone.
Category: historic places
Ancient Tulare Lake Reappears
When John Muir walked from San Francisco to Yosemite Valley in the spring of 1868, he recalled a sea of wildflowers as far as the eye could see in all …
Who is Representative Lauren Boebert?
Lauren Boebert made herself very visible as a leader of the 20 people resisting Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid to be Speaker of the House this week. She nominated an supported …
Planning for Disaster
Why did the Forest Service Start a Big Forest Fire in New Mexico? The recriminations have begun. The 320,000-acre Hermit Peak Fire in northern New Mexico has burned …
Gratitude for National Parks
This is a guest editorial from my friend George Wuerthner originally published in Wildlife News. I print it to remind all of us why we asked to have the National …
Harsh Lessons from an Ancient People
Bandelier National Monument offers the perfect blend of strange wilderness beauty and human interest with the mysterious cliff dwellings of long-gone Pueblo people. Early Pueblo people lived across this landscape …
How One Man’s Disease Changed the History of New Mexico
Had J Robert Oppenheimer not gotten sick in 1922, the Manhattan project would have been sited elsewhere in the US and Los Alamos National Laboratory would never have existed in …
There are no Indigenous People in the Americas
There is an unmistakable trend in progressive and environmental thinking today. All compasses point toward a focus on Indigenous people and their long experience on this continent and the discrimination …
New Gila Wild and Scenic Bill an Empty Gesture
What do you imagine when you think of a wild and scenic river? Do you think of a deep clear stream running among thick grasses with flowers bobbing, deer grazing …
Chaco Canyon and the Trampling of Hooves
At the turn of the century (1900), a man named Richard Weatherill ran a horse ranch right next to Pueblo Bonito inside what is now Chaco Canyon National Historic Park. …
