Can lessons from ecology offer a way to find common ground in our polarized nation?
Items by Susan Tweit
In Salida, Colorado, little homes come with a big price tag.
A number of literary journals offer different perspectives on the West.
A neighbor's outdoor feeding efforts endanger local deer, who might be spreading chronic wasting disease.
In 2003, Colorado's Grand Ditch was breached, causing flood damage to the Upper Colorado River and to Rocky Mountain National Park.
Bottled water is a silly idea anyway, but Nestle’s plans to bottle spring water from the high desert of Chaffee County, Colo., are beyond absurd.
Susan Tweit says the huge numbers of road-killed wildlife point to a simple fact: There are too many of us.
The western Colorado town of Uravan no longer exists, but its history of radium and uranium mining lives on.
When did paying taxes become un-American? Susan Tweit blames Joe the Plumber, symbol of the "we're-being-taxed-into-poverty" crowd.
Susan Tweit sees the growing tally of roadkill as a sign that there are too many humans threatening ecological balance.
The writer looks forward to Christo coming to her area,
even though traffic jams are sure to be part of the artist’s
'Over the River.'
Award-winning author Denise Chavez created the Border Book
Festival, and founded a Cultural Center in Mesilla, N.M., to help
heal the cultural wounds of the U.S.-Mexico border
In the little town of Antonito, Colo., a local eccentric
known as Cano is using salvaged materials like beer cans, hubcaps
and scrap lumber to create an extraordinary shrine called "El
Castillo."
Jeff Lee and Ann Martin of Denver are working to turn
their huge personal library into a "land-study" center and
residential library, the Rocky Mountain Land Library
The writer watches in wonder as meteors shower her part of
the rural West
In order to remain aware of the amount of water she uses
in her dry climate, the author collects her dishwater daily, and
pours it on her compost pile
The writer recycles water as a way of life
The writer says forget Mars, we’ve got trouble on
our Western frontier
Susan Tweit would rather not see evidence mounting for
global warming
Iraq has a chance to restore its fabled Mesapotamia
Marshes, just as America could revive its own Colorado River
Delta
Susan Tweit writes of the coming restoration in Iraq of
the Garden of Eden
For 60 years, J. David Love explored the West's
geology
The West is naturally dry, according to the writer, and
people should accept that fact, especially when there is a
drought.
From the outside, the National Environmental Policy Act process might as well be a foreign culture with its own, language and customs.
Forest managers are responding to the mountain pine beetle epidemic, which is killing trees across the Rocky Mountain region, with an environmentally-based method called "integrated pest management."
- A viral coyote-badger video demonstrates the incredible complexity of nature
- The residual power of Ammon Bundy
- Oklahoma’s tribes unite against a common foe: Their Cherokee governor
- Billionaires are changing communities and the wild in Wyoming
- Indigenous women face extra barriers when it comes to reproductive rights
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