I spent some time traveling to and from Steamboat Springs, Colorado this past week and was startled by the effects of the mountain pine beetle. There were huge swaths of forests along U.S. Highway 40 just south of Steamboat that had groves of dead pine trees. Because the trees have…
Continue readingI was working at our local museum in Nederland the other day, and got questions from some out-of-towners about Nederland, which is pretty typical. Once they found out I lived here, they got more in depth about the questions. What are the winters like? How long have you lived here?…
Continue readingAs I was listening to NPR the other day, I was startled to hear that the Forest Service spent fifty percent of their budget on fighting wildfires. Startled not because it’s not important or because I was surprised by the high number of wildfires. Wildfire is a part of hot…
Continue readingWhen I was a kid, my mom gave me a book called Blue Highways written by William Least Heat Moon. The story detailed an around the country road trip the author embarked on over the course of a year driving a pickup truck retrofitted with a camper shell, traveling the “Blue Highways.”…
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