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As a child learning to cross a street, I learned the following. I can still hear my father’s voice in my head. “First you look left to make sure no cars are coming, then you look right, then left again. Go!” Well, when it comes to driving a traffic circle,…
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“I’m moving to Louisville. I want to get away from the wildfire danger up here in Nederland.” This is what my neighbor said several years ago when you sold her house. Now I wonder if she even has a home anymore. It’s horrific — 991 homes lost in the blink…
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The climate change news is bleak. “The report “is a code red for humanity”, says the UN chief.” Having a day off and needing to do business in Boulder, I turned on Colorado Public Radio in my car and heard the news on climate change. Human activity is definitively causing…
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“We want to backpack the Northern Loop. Can you give us camping suggestions?” Three years ago, I volunteered at the Forest Service office in Boulder, issuing wilderness permits. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I offered to help. But over the course of the season, from mid-June to mid-September,…
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