Getting ready for wildfire
Marathon runner Shawna Legarza has had nearly a lifetime of experiences in wildfire. Now she’s helping the Durango area prepare for the inevitable.
Los Angeles delivers a wake-up call for places like Durango
Colorado has no city as large as LA. The scale is smaller. But we should be attentive to lessons learned in California.
A perfect storm for fire insurance
After devastating fires in 2020 and 2021, the cost of insuring homes and other buildings in high-risk forested areas of Colorado has skyrocketed
Glen Canyon Dam has created a world of mud
The San Juan River of the Four Corners region above all delivers sediment. Receding levels of Lake Powell reveal a shrouded landscape.
Energy guru says energy gap can be bridged
Amory Lovins says the United States is actually ahead of schedule on the massive task of moving away from fossil fuels and their emissions
Farmington, a town in need of a jolt
The sky is cleaner now that the coal plants have started closing, but how will that economic void be filled? That answer isn’t clear.
Readying for a ripping runoff
With southwestern Colorado’s snowpack at 183% of average, a reservoir manager admits to a “pucker factor” when contemplating spring runoff.
When no home is affordable
In the Colorado city of Durango, making $80,0000 a year isn’t enough to get you much in the way of housing. How did it get this way? What are the solutions?
Tightening tensions in the Colorado River Basin
Without a more muscular federal role, must Colorado farmers bear the burden of water shortages in the Colorado River Basin? Cites likely won’t.
