Writers on the Range
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- Home on the range
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Creative builders get rural housing done
- By Dave Marston
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- Getting skunked
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What to do with a stinky pest in the garden
- By Richard Rubin
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- No one size fits all
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Are beavers always the answer? Not really
- By Ted Williams
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- Firefighting goats
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Hungry livestock can be a forest’s best friend
- By Dave Marston
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- Enough is enough
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Let’s blow the whistle on public-land abusers
- By Rob Pudim
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- Speak up
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We can help shape this Utah monument
- By Jonathan Thompson
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- The Golden Rule
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Yes, there’s such a thing as trail etiquette
- By Marjorie "Slim" Woodruff
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- Remembering John Fielder
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Colorado's unofficial landscase photographer
- By Betsy Marston / Writers on the Range
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- Funding the frontline
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Wildland firefighters need our support, better pay
- By Gregory McNamee / Writers on the Range
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- Howdy, partner
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Just moved out West? Here are some tips to get acclimated
- By Betsy Marston
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- Say cheese
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Too many tourists follow a leader
- By Marjorie "Slim" Woodruff
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- Backcountry heroes
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SAR teams put lives on the line, often without compensation
- By Molly Absolon
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- The last wild places
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Mountains in wilderness don’t need climbing hardware
- By Dana Johnson
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- In need of a jolt
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Farmington grapples with post coal-fueled future
- By Dave Marston
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- Famous fossils
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Old bones can be a town’s movie stars
- By Adam Larson
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- A bad deal
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Federal land exchanges serve the wealthy, cost the public
- By Erica Rosenberg
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- Running out of time
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A dancing bird finally gets some protections, but is it too late?
- By John Horning/Writers on the Range
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- 02/06/2025
- Dirty(ish) dancing
- By Missy Votel
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Durango Pole Dance offers safe space for fitness, fun and being yourself
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- 01/30/2025
- Thinking the unthinkable
- By Allen Best / Big Pivots
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Drier winters may portend water cutbacks in Colorado
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- 01/30/2025
- Poetry in motion
- By Missy Votel
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‘Voices Inside My Head’ combines art with words for off-the-couch experience
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- 01/23/2025
- Priming the pump
- By Allen Best / Big Pivots
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LPEA announces new home, vehicle electrification incentives
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- Getting soaked
- 02/06/2025
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Floating the Grand Canyon could get a lot more expensive for private boaters. The National Park Service is seeking public input on a proposal to increase the per-person cost for rafting Lees Ferry to Diamond Creek from $90 to $310. The cost of floating Diamond Creek to Pearce Ferry, now free, would increase to $55/person. The $25 lottery permit fee would remain unchanged.
- Lockdown
- 01/30/2025
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For many Durangoans, their bicycles may be their most prized – and only – set of wheels. Which is why bike thieves are among the lowest of the low. But, with bike thefts on the rise, Durango Police are helping residents protect their bikes through a free registration system called “Project 529.”
- The end is Sneer
- 01/23/2025
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If you’re planning on drinking your winter blues away at Snowdown this year, you’ve likely already been to Magpies Newsstand to grab your board games gear to celebrate. As Snowdown merch central, they have t-shirts, hats, buttons, posters and info pamphlets. Get your butt down there if you haven’t already, as supplies are dwindling! However, if you go to Magpie’s in search of the venerable Snowdown Sneer, the satirical newspaper that mysteriously shows up around town (almost) every Snowdown, don't get your hopes up just yet.
- So Rando
- 01/16/2025
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It’s been 10 years since locals Peter Carver and Joe Philpott died in separate avalanche incidents. Since then, the nonprofit organization founded in their memory, Know the Snow Fund, has raised tens of thousands of dollars and handed out hundreds of scholarships for avalanche safety training. In 2024 alone, KTSF supported scholarships for nearly 100 individuals.