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? …
Category: National Parks
Trump Seeing the Light on National Parks?
On March 3, 2020 Donald Trump tweeted that he wanted Congress to send him a bill that would provide full and permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the National Park Service.
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 …
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 …
Parks Closed over Border Wall Demands
Late December 2018 finds us enjoying strong snowfall in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. The Jet Stream that abandoned us last winter is now swooping up and over us …
Just Say No to Black Friday!
This is Black Friday which somehow became the day we are all supposed to rush out and buy things in anticipation of Christmas, a holiday centered on exchanging gifts …
Huge Collapsed Volcanos Host Dangerous Animals
Rocky Mountain Beer Explorer sent our top reporter to Yellowstone National Park in early September to check on the other major caldera in the West. While its easy to be …
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 …
