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  • Essays

    Learning the trick of quiet

    The writer muses about loving and protecting the landscape of one's own backyard.

  • News

    Moab area acts to regain control of public lands

    Changes in management of Moab-area public lands, including new visitor fees, may help protect an over-used landscape.

  • News

    Ranchers charge tourists for a dose of reality

    "Recreational ranchers" earn extra money from tourists who pay for a chance to work as cowboys.

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    Seeking power, a few ski workers go union

    In a few resorts, beleagured ski workers are turning to unions for help.

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    He came to ski and stayed to help

    J. Francis Stafford, the Archbishop of Denver, makes socioeconomic justice and worker's problems in ski country a priority.

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    It always comes down to finding a place to live

    Creating low-cost housing in ski country involves overcoming a variety of hurdles.

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    Pedro Lopez, entrepreneur

    Pedro Lopez and other workers who live in trailers near the Beaver Creek resort will have to move because the industry is buying the trailer park's land.

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    Ski bums wrapped in concrete

    Ski workers Jeremy Bernier and Jim Noland sleep in a van in the maintenance room of a parking garage because they can't afford housing in Vail.

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    The Leadville-Indy 500

    Single mother Alma Perez has to start her day at 5:30 am to commute from Leadville to her ski industry job in Vail.

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    Working 24 hours straight

    Former ski bum Greg Smith now juggles three jobs to make ends meet.

  • Feature

    The New West's servant economy

    Ski resorts begin to resemble the Third World as Africans and others come to take low-paying service jobs, but have trouble finding housing.

  • News

    Pack "em in, Park Service suggests

    The Grand Canyon's new general management plan proposes development to accommodate more and more tourists.

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    A bitter rancher and a failed compromise

    Nevada's Great Basin National Park was founded on an uneasy compromise between grazing and preservation.

  • News

    A delicate question: When is an arch crowded?

    Arches National Park uses pilot program to measure how many people are too many people at Delicate Arch.

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    Motorized beasts are noisy and stinky - and fun

    Seeing Yellowstone by snowmobile is understandably entertaining.

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