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The waterfalls in the San Juan high country are going off right now, like this one on the trail to Highland Mary Lakes./ Photo by Missy Votel

Mountain 911

Thousands are rescued from Colorado mountains each year (and tips to not become one of them)

Moose mania

As introduced ungulates make home in SWCO, here’s what you need to know

Meet the new boss

Scott McClain tapped as City's new Parks and Recreation Director

Gaining speed

Silverton’s Baker’s Park project awarded $750,000 GOCO grant

Big? Definitely ...

but Colorado utilities see no beauty in Trump’s reconciliation budget bill

June 26, 2025

Thanks for another great Nordfest

June 26, 2025

All about the trees

June 19, 2025

We've been here before

June 19, 2025

China sabotaging U.S. solar arrays

June 19, 2025

Why Trump attacks liberal education

June 12, 2025

Flying in face of logic

June 12, 2025

Tariffs hurt rural renewable projects

June 12, 2025

We can't eat money

Pre-July 2016 Archives

Durango Telegraph eEdition

Animas River at Durango,Co
Discharge, cubic feet per second

More at: waterdata.usgs.gov

The Pole

Ear to the Ground

"Is everything OK? You've hardly touched your margarita"
--Telltale sign that something is up with your drinking buddy

Clyde's goodbye: Read More

Thumbin' It

The Klamath River in Oregon and California is running free for the first time in 100 years after the removal of four dams. Even better, a group of youth from area tribes – to whom the river was sacred – had the honors of making the first (re)descent.

Trump's onslaught against public lands – and everything else – continues, with this week's repeal of the roadless rule. Enacted 25 years ago, it is one of the pillars of open space protection across the nation. Without it, millions of acres of Colorado are now under threat from development.

Haiku Movie Review

Better Man

I mean, the whole thing
is really insulting to
Chimpanzees, innit?

~Lainie Maxson

This Week's Sign of the Downfall

Art Official Intelligence

Last January, a nonbinary AI named Flynn was accepted as a student into Vienna’s University of Applied Arts, and last month, Miles Astray entered a real photo in an AI photo contest to prove humans were still relevant. But his first-place prize was revoked when the judges found out his picture was real. Craziest of all, Grammy-winning producer Timbaland just launched the world’s first AI music label called Stage Zero, which signed TaTa, pictured here, two weeks ago as his first artist. Timbaland calls TaTa a “living, learning, autonomous music artist.” All of this is great news for starving artists who want to be even hungrier, but it’s horrible news for traditional producers like R. Kelly for obvious reasons.

June 26, 2025