By Molly Absolon Writers on the Range Sometimes you hear a crack or a roar. More often the first sign is snow shifting around your feet....
By Rocky Barker WRITERS ON THE RANGE Representative Mike Simpson is a conservative Republican from Idaho whose concept of wildness in the 1990s was going into...
By Ted Williams WRITERS ON THE RANGE Three percent of Earth’s land mass is comprised of islands, but 95 percent of all bird extinctions have occurred on...
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...