By Dave Marston Writers on the Range Only about 100 people live in Somerset in western Colorado, a former coal company town squeezed into a narrow...
By Marjorie “Slim” Woodruff WRITERS ON THE RANGE I attended a ranger program recently dealing with Leave No Trace. The ranger showed a picture of rock...
By Auden Schendler and Ted White WRITERS ON THE RANGE Thirteen-year-olds can AirDrop Simpsons memes from across the room, and artificial intelligence made chess masters like...
By Asta Bowen WRITERS ON THE RANGE I have to admit, I almost feel sorry for old 2020. It’s been catching a lot of hate these...
By Pepper Trail WRITERS ON THE RANGE In Oregon, the Klamath Basin wildlife refuges have fallen into their winter silence now. The huge, clamorous flocks of...
By Harrison Raine WRITERS ON THE RANGE By mid-September, there was no one left to call. The West, with its thousands of federal, state and local fire...
By Dave Marston WRITERS ON THE RANGE There’s a concept called “demand management” in the news in Colorado, and here’s a simple definition: Landowners get paid...
By Laura Pritchett WRITERS ON THE RANGE I live on a county road near the evacuation perimeter of what is now Colorado’s largest wildfire. Yesterday, the sheriff’s...
By Jonathan Thompson WRITERS ON THE RANGE Ever since 1790, when the U.S. Census started keeping track of such things, the migratory flow of non-Indigenous people within...
By Stephen Pyne and Jack Cohen WRITERS ON THE RANGE That the scene has become familiar makes it no less wrenching: A distraught couple searches through...
