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Results for keyword: San Juan Mountains

  • Winter camping can be hazardous to your health

    Winter camping can be hazardous to your health

    One hundred and thirty-five years ago, Alferd E. Packer survived winter starvation in the Colorado mountains with the help of his friends -- or at least of the meat on their bones.

    by Andrew Gulliford, Feb 27, 2009
  • The return of Colorado's missing lynx

    The return of Colorado's missing lynx

    Colorado's reintroduced lynx are in trouble, and a detailed map shows where -- and why -- they’re facing problems.

    by Sarah Gilman, Jan 19, 2009

  • At home in the valley

    In The San Luis Valley: Sand Dunes and Sandhill Cranes, Susan Tweit explores a remarkable Colorado landscape

    by Renee Guillory, Mar 20, 2006

  • Heard around the West

    Avalanches galore in the San Juan Mountains; a monstrous monster home in Jackson; "inattention blindness" on the highway; nice millionaires join the Yellowstone Club; exotic career day advice in Albuquerque; dog survives eagle snatching

    by Betsy Marston, Feb 21, 2005

  • Small-time ski operator fights for his life

    Texas billionaire Billy Joe "Red" McCombs wants to build "The Village at Wolf Creek" – Colorado’s largest resort village – in the heart of one of the state’s most environmentally conscious small ski areas

    by Alex Pasquariello, Jun 07, 2004

  • More lynx, less habitat

    Colorado’s lynx reintroduction program has so far been a success, but a new Forest Service management proposal would put energy development, forest thinning, and snowmobile trails ahead of the threatened animal’s habitat

    by Alex C. Pasquariello, Mar 15, 2004
 

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