Unsettling

Unsettling

Unsettling 2025 There’s unsettling data from the Natural Resources Conservation Service on the Rocky Mountain Western Slope snowpack. This is the lifeblood of the Colorado River. We’re looking at the lowest snowpack on record since 1941. A winter that’s been warm and...

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Foolishness

Foolishness

Foolishness 2024 Foolishness rarely strays far from any bureaucracy, in any organization, in any culture, in any era. The raw foolishness of swapping reason and scientific research for ideology seems to be the current fashion in Washington, where something or other...

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Just A Smidgen

Just A Smidgen

Just a smidgen, perhaps only a vague shadow of a smidgen, a pittance, a number buried deep in the monied mists of Capitol Hill. The National Park Service receives less than 1-15th of 1 percent of the federal budget, according to park advocates. Washington DC...

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Quicksand

Quicksand

Quicksand 2025 There it lies, timeless quicksand, ancient and devious, disguised and poised to devour, terrible quicksand that swallows empires, dreams and innocent explorers alike. There it is, savage, silent quicksand mushrooming across parts America’s parched...

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