Results for keyword: winter
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It’s time 23,000 elk got off the dole
Wyoming needs to stop feeding elk in winter in order to stop the spread of chronic wasting disease.
by Bruce Smith, Feb 17, 2012 -
The Tao of Pow: Learning to love winter
A newcomer to Utah learns to love winter with the help of snowshoes.
by Christopher Cokinos, Apr 03, 2011 -
Let me tell you about a real winter
A Wyoming rancher remembers the winter of 1979 -- what it was like tending cattle at 52 below zero.
by Mary Flitner, Feb 20, 2011 -
Plenty of wood in the pile
Nothing says "security" like kind neighbors and a nice big woodpile for the winter.
by Irene Wanner , Feb 17, 2011 -
A hard winter makes you think
Rhonda Claridge describes a hard winter in the high mountains and points out that one seldom-acknowledged effect of climate change could be harder winters in some parts of the world.
by Rhonda Claridge, Apr 14, 2008 -
A hard winter makes you think
Rhonda Claridge describes a hard winter in the high mountains, and points out that one seldom-acknowledged effect of climate change could be harder winters in some parts of the world.
by Rhonda Claridge, Mar 31, 2008 -
Dry to the bone
Despite a relatively snowy winter here in western Colorado, the season itself seems to have shrunk, with spring arriving weeks earlier than it once did in a trend with ominous consequences for the desert Southwest, particularly Phoenix.
by Paul Larmer, Apr 16, 2007 -
March madness trims the herd
Just as winter turns into spring, Paul Larmer watches a young elk die in western Colorado.
by Paul Larmer, Mar 26, 2007 -
Enough winter already
Hal Walter has shoveled his heart out this winter, and he’s tired of it.
by Hal Walter, Feb 12, 2007 -
Winter Prayer
Snowshoeing alone at night in the forest, a woman thinks – and prays – about the friends she loves, and the families they worry about.
by Kathleen Dean Moore, Feb 05, 2007
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