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Results for keyword: Rocky Mountains

Adventuring on Colorado's big peaks

A woman finds solace and delight in climbing Colorado's highest and most challenging mountains.

by Jane Koerner, Aug 18, 2011
The gift of runoff in a wet season

After too many recent dry years, residents of the Rocky Mountains are relishing the music of running water.

by Allen Best, Jul 21, 2011
A house like a buffalo

A lover of old Western architecture spends his days dismantling and recycling tumbledown buildings.

by Charles Finn, Oct 28, 2010
Springtime is whine-time

Spring is the cruelest month in the Rocky Mountain West.

by Dennis Hinkamp, May 13, 2010
The West is always wild to the young

Gary Lantz may lament that the West he roamed as a young man no longer exists – but to young people like his son, the West is still a magical place filled with the promise of adventure.

by Gary Lantz, Oct 15, 2007
Dust and Snow

In Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, Tom Painter and other scientists study the dust in the snow and ponder its implications for future drought and weather conditions, especially in the era of global warming

by Michelle Nijhuis, May 29, 2006
California, here we come

California has a lot to teach the Interior West – particularly about clean energy and water conservation

by Paul Larmer, May 01, 2006
Exploring High Mountain Lakes in the Rockies

Exploring High Mountain Lakes in the Rockies by biologist Fred W. Rabe takes a detailed look at mountain lakes, describing their formation, geology and aquatic plants and animals

by Staff, Mar 06, 2006
A eulogy for the West that was

In Requiem for the West, Roger Brown laments the loss of soul and solitude in the small mountain towns of the Colorado Rockies

by Paul Anderson, Jan 23, 2006
A natural and cultural history of the Rocky Mountains

Gary Ferguson explores the history and culture of the backbone of the West in The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind

by Stephen J. Lyons, Dec 26, 2005