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 …
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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 …
Time to Close the Four Corners Generating Station
By Tom Ribe Standing on the mesas near Bandelier National Monument in about 1970 we looked across the Rio Grande Valley through a thick, often impenetrable gray smog that …
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 …
Caught in an Eddy in Buena Vista, Colorado
Those of us who live in northern New Mexico are really lucky to have so much excellent outdoor adventure opportunity around us. When I was a kid growing up …
Beyond the Fun; Reckoning with Durango’s History
Most of us live in the West because of the exceptional outdoor opportunities here, the vast areas of wild land, big mountain ranges, rivers, climbing cliffs, beautiful deserts and solitude. …
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 …
Where Santa Fe’s Eight Craft Breweries Get their Water
When you sit down to a locally made beer, 93% of the beer in your glass is water. That’s true of any beer anywhere, but here in the desert …
