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Well temps were -5 this am at 7 but it is going towarm up as soon as the sun rises over Galena Peak. The racers are packed in the lodge and it is a bluebird day out there! Should be a great race, maybe not record setting with the cold temps but still pretty perfect conditions!
Good luck to all the racers!
Well the snow may have come later this year than most people would have liked but finally it is here. Galena Lodge has over 31/2 feet of new snow from this past storm making a base of over 5 feet!! The Nordic trails are incredible and the snowshoe trails (after some tough trail breaking) are perfect. Come up and enjoy a winter getaway soon.
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The last Boulder Training Clinic with Nicole DeYong is this Sunday at 11am . The group will leave from Baker Creek and head south to the SNRA. Only $40 and includes the shuttle back to Baker Creek. Please call to sign up!
Twilight Ski and Dinner on Tuesday January 31st . Enjoy an after work ski under the setting sun and tiki torches on the trails at Galena. Then head back to the lodge for dinner. Dinner will be served from 5:30 to 7:30pm and will be an a la carte menu. Live music, good friends and incredible snow!
Well the snow may have come later this year than most people would have liked but finally it is here. Galena Lodge has over 31/2 feet of new snow from this past storm making a base of over 5 feet!! The Nordic trails are incredible and the snowshoe trails (after some tough trail breaking) are perfect. Come up and enjoy a winter getaway soon.
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The last Boulder Training Clinic with Nicole DeYong is this Sunday at 11am . The group will leave from Baker Creek and head south to the SNRA. Only $40 and includes the shuttle back to Baker Creek. Please call to sign up!
Twilight Ski and Dinner on Tuesday January 31st . Enjoy an after work ski under the setting sun and tiki torches on the trails at Galena. Then head back to the lodge for dinner. Dinner will be served from 5:30 to 7:30pm and will be an a la carte menu. Live music, good friends and incredible snow!
You played a massive Red Rocks show in August and now you are back for the second time in six months, what keeps you coming back to Denver?
You guys make us feel like we’re really awesome and that’s validating. You know, once in a while you’ve got to feel awesome. Na. The real reason is people keep asking us to come back. Playing music is our favorite thing in the world to do so how can we say no.
As the headliner of the first ever winter Red Rocks Show, what has got you most excited about this particular gig?
The nervousness. I’m the type that thrives on nervousness. For starters, its in winter and anything could go wrong. There could be a blizzard while we played and that alone scared me enough to agree to it. Then the organizers asked us to put together a bill and told us we could get anyone. So we asked about Common and they said yes. Common is one of my heroes. He’s a legend. And now I have to go out on stage after him. Do you know how scary that is for me?
And if there is a blizzard?
The show goes on....
Check out all the great things happening this week at Galena Lodge:
Sunday is Free Ski Day on the entire North Valley Trail system. It is also free learn to ski day with a free skate clinic at 1pm and a free classic clinic at 2:30pm. Rentals are included for the lesson and offered at a discount for a full day rental. Make sure to sign up early and save your spot!
Sunday Galena Lodge is hosting Boulder Training Clinics with Nicole DeYong at 11am. Get yourself ready for the BMT this year with world class instruction from one of the countries top XC skiers. Learn technique, race tactics and strategies in this weekly 1.5 hour clinic. Make sure to sign up early!
Full Moon Dinners are this Saturday, Sunday and Monday . Enjoy an incredible four course dinner followed by a moonlit ski or snowshoe with friends and family. Reservations are limited.
Check out all the great things happening this week at Galena Lodge:
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Sunday is Free Ski Day on the entire North Valley Trail system. It is also free learn to ski day with a free skate clinic at 1pm and a free classic clinic at 2:30pm. Rentals are included for the lesson and offered at a discount for a full day rental. Make sure to sign up early and save your spot!
Sunday Galena Lodge is hosting Boulder Training Clinics with Nicole DeYong at 11am. Get yourself ready for the BMT this year with world class instruction from one of the countries top XC skiers. Learn technique, race tactics and strategies in this weekly 1.5 hour clinic. Make sure to sign up early!
Full Moon Dinners are this Saturday, Sunday and Monday . Enjoy an incredible four course dinner followed by a moonlit ski or snowshoe with friends and family. Reservations are limited.
Take a journey deep into the mountains of Wyoming, with a group of hard-charging, dedicated skiers and watch as they explore the state with the most rugged and remote terrain in the lower forty-eight.
Shot over the course of two years, Wyoming Triumph is a grassroots film featuring a veteran and a youthful band of ski and snowboard friends and professionals who travel throughout the great, big, mountainous backcountry terrain of Wyoming in search of fresh lines and remote locations. Filmed entirely in Wyoming, the film
Shot over the course of two years, Wyoming Triumph is a grassroots film featuring a veteran and a youthful band of ski and snowboard friends and professionals who travel throughout the great, big, mountainous backcountry terrain of Wyoming in search of fresh lines and remote locations. Filmed entirely in Wyoming, the film
not only explores the drive of a unique group of passionate individuals, but also takes the viewer on a Wild West journey through parts of the "Old West" that still exist while documenting the vast, winter terrain Wyoming has to offer in a progressive cinematic format.
Wyoming Triumph will captivate and inspire. You will laugh, you will feel passion, and you may well cry.
Wyoming Triumph will captivate and inspire. You will laugh, you will feel passion, and you may well cry.
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Boulder, CO. - The Dairy Center for the Arts - 12/1/11
Denver, CO. - The Oriental Theater - 12/2/11
Durango, CO. - Abbey Theater...
While Lindsey Vonn was having lunch with students at the Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy, Parker McDonald, a local Vail student, got up the nerve to ask the Olympian to homecoming. "I said, 'What are you doing tomorrow night, because there's a dance,"' Parker recalled. "'And I was wondering if you wanted to go with me."'(more)
The 27-year-old member of the U.S. Ski Team was in town for the annual First Tracks team announcement, and she said yes. "I was like, 'What exactly is this going to be, and what time?"' Vonn said. "And I just had to pause for a minute. But Parker was such a gentleman and he asked me so politely that I just -- I couldn't resist his face."
After trading corsages and boutonnières, the pair piled into her car—with a few more of his friends.
Vonn said, "He invited me over to his friend's house for, like, the family pictures and stuff. So I went over and then I -- pretty much all the kids wanted to ride in my car over to the dance, so I think we may have fit a few too many kids into my car, but my...
Just because there are only a few resorts open right now doesn't mean there isn't deep snow to be found. Here's what 14 inches looks like right now at Loveland.
24 Hour Nationals! Four times the fun with Team SRAM.
October 1-2 was a really fun riding day, and I mean a full riding day. I haven’t raced a 24 Hour event all season. When I heard that USAC National Championships was being held in Colorado Springs, home of SRAM’s Avid and Rockshox office, I decided that SRAM needed to have a women’s team represented! It was a last minute effort, but I rallied some fast Colorado friends who I normally have to race against.
Jenny Smith, Sonya Looney and Kelly Boniface are regulars on the endurance, XC and XTerra podiums. We’ve lined up against each other multiple times this season. If I couldn’t find three other fast friends, I was stuck with the thought of racing 24 Hour Nationals as a solo or duo. I had not really wrapped my head around that and it wasn’t my first choice at all. To commit to a solo 24 Hour race takes a rock solid desire and focus to put yourself through that kind of an ordeal. My mind just wasn’t in that place...
Beer and skiing pair like Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. So when a few of us at Skiing Magazine got the opportunity to check out the mother of all beer gatherings we took full advantage.
This is a recap of our adventure at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado. This winter, be sure to tip a pint of something local as you traverse ski country because, from left coast to right, American craft brewers are concocting some delicious beverages.
Special thanks to the Brewers Association.
Check out photos from the festivities here.
Join Galena Lodge and the cycling community on Sunday, September 11th for the annual Boulder Mountain Bike Tour ! Ride your road bike or mountain bike up to the lodge and enjoy a fantastic lunch buffet, live music and discounts on just about everything. There will be an aid station at Baker Creek and a Sag Wagon provided by The Perch and Sturtos as you ride up to the lodge. Mountain Bikers leave at 9am from the SNRA parking lot and Road Bikers leave at 10am from Ketchum town square. This final day of our summer season is filled with fun and celebration of bikes, summer and friends!
Don't forget to sign up for the Harriman Trail 10 Miler Trail Run on Sunday, September 4th!
Join Galena Lodge and the cycling community on Sunday, September 11th for the annual Boulder Mountain Bike Tour ! Ride your road bike or mountain bike up to the lodge and enjoy a fantastic lunch buffet, live music and discounts on just about everything. There will be an aid station at Baker Creek and a Sag Wagon provided by The Perch and Sturtos as you ride up to the lodge. Mountain Bikers leave at 9am from the SNRA parking lot and Road Bikers leave at 10am from Ketchum town square. This final day of our summer season is filled with fun and celebration of bikes, summer and friends!
Don't forget to sign up for the Harriman Trail 10 Miler Trail Run on Sunday, September 4th!
The resumption of wolf-hunts in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming illustrates why citizens must continue to oppose such unnecessary and senseless slaughters.
The wolf-hunts are predicated upon morally corrupt and inaccurate assumptions about wolf behavior and impacts that is not supported by recent scientific research. State wildlife agencies pander to the lowest common denominator in the hunting communitymen who need to booster their own self esteem and release misdirected anger by killing.
The wolf-hunts are predicated upon morally corrupt and inaccurate assumptions about wolf behavior and impacts that is not supported by recent scientific research. State wildlife agencies pander to the lowest common denominator in the hunting communitymen who need to booster their own self esteem and release misdirected anger by killing.
The industrial-scale art project proposed by the artist Christo Javacheff and his Over the River Corporation (OTR) will significantly impact the Arkansas River corridor from Salida, Colo., downstream to Canon City.
The artist proposes to suspend 5.9 miles of fabric panels over several segments of a 45-mile reach of the river, eight to 20 feet off the surface in areas of prized public fishing access.
In order to anchor the cables that will support the fabric, OTR must drill 9,100 anchor holes within and adjacent to the riparian zone. These holes must be drilled by large industrial machines that require hazardous and toxic fluids to operate and maintain.
The artist proposes to suspend 5.9 miles of fabric panels over several segments of a 45-mile reach of the river, eight to 20 feet off the surface in areas of prized public fishing access.
In order to anchor the cables that will support the fabric, OTR must drill 9,100 anchor holes within and adjacent to the riparian zone. These holes must be drilled by large industrial machines that require hazardous and toxic fluids to operate and maintain.
From Nothing Into Something, Sprout City Farms Grows a Thriving Urban School Garden in Denver (Slideshow)
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School gardens are becoming more and more popular around the country, but they're harder to establish in some places than in others—in the middle of a city, for example, where the soil is deficient and needs work before it can support growth of plants and vegetables.
So what does that process look like, of turning essentially nothing into something? Sprout City Farms (SCF), in partnership with the
So what does that process look like, of turning essentially nothing into something? Sprout City Farms (SCF), in partnership with the
Informal talks this week between Denver's mayor and Colorado's governor about the 2022 Winter Olympics would be the start of a long process full of hurdles, should Denver make a serious bid for the Games.
On Sunday, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper confirmed to the Denver Post that the idea interests them, but both expressed awareness of how long and winding any road to the Olympics would be.
On Sunday, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper confirmed to the Denver Post that the idea interests them, but both expressed awareness of how long and winding any road to the Olympics would be.
Utah, usually the only Rocky Mountain state among the nation's top 10 in an annual assessment of how children are faring, did less well in this year's report.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2011 Kids Count places Utah seventh, down three places from last year. Idaho ranks 22nd, Colorado 25th, Wyoming 28th, Montana 33rd, and New Mexico 46th.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2011 Kids Count places Utah seventh, down three places from last year. Idaho ranks 22nd, Colorado 25th, Wyoming 28th, Montana 33rd, and New Mexico 46th.
Last week, I accompanied my guy on a business trip to Lincoln, Mont. Although it's probably most famous as the location of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski's hideout (the cabin has since been moved), this rural community remains noteworthy for its beef jerky, which is produced locally and sold under the Hi-Country brand.
It's also an easy distance from prime berry country, so naturally we were prepared to grab a few wild huckleberries during the journey home.
It's also an easy distance from prime berry country, so naturally we were prepared to grab a few wild huckleberries during the journey home.
As drought continues to hammer southern statesdrying out Texas streams, lakes and water suppliesthe only things empty in most Colorado rivers are the fishing nets.
I haven't seen water like this so late since my first year here in 1985, said Thomas Schneider, owner of Boulder-based Sunrise Anglers, LLC. I was guiding last weekend in the park (Rocky Mountain National Park in northern Colorado) and I haven't seen the Roaring River that high, ever.
I haven't seen water like this so late since my first year here in 1985, said Thomas Schneider, owner of Boulder-based Sunrise Anglers, LLC. I was guiding last weekend in the park (Rocky Mountain National Park in northern Colorado) and I haven't seen the Roaring River that high, ever.
In its second public meeting reviewing uranium mining in southwestern Colorado this week, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) received a sharp mandate from Telluride residents: any mining is too much, and its leasing program should be disbanded.
DOE is conducting a series of meetings to take the pulse of people in the Colorado towns of Telluride, Montrose, and Naturita, and in Monticello, Utah, concerning the federal program that leases land to mining companies.
DOE is conducting a series of meetings to take the pulse of people in the Colorado towns of Telluride, Montrose, and Naturita, and in Monticello, Utah, concerning the federal program that leases land to mining companies.
An increase in abandoned campfires in the Rockies over recent weeks has prompted fire officials to issue a reminder: be careful in the woods this time of year, when the fire danger often is high.
In Montana, more than a dozen abandoned campfires have been discovered lately. Sixty-one percent of fires on lands managed by the state have been human-caused this summer. In the Lolo National Forest alone, firefighters have responded to 16 human-caused blazes, or 55 percent of the total fires there.
In Montana, more than a dozen abandoned campfires have been discovered lately. Sixty-one percent of fires on lands managed by the state have been human-caused this summer. In the Lolo National Forest alone, firefighters have responded to 16 human-caused blazes, or 55 percent of the total fires there.
The sounds of yesteryear rang out July 23, primarily from the instruments of Montana fiddlers but also from some equally talented musicians from several neighboring states, when the Montana State Old Time Fiddlers Association (MSOTFA) held its 43rd Annual Fiddle Contest. And when the competition was complete, high-quality fishing could be found less than a half-hour away.
For the first time, this event was held in beautiful Choteau, Montana. Anyone who can't appreciate the beauty of Charmaine and the peacefulness of a gurgling creek is no one I care to associate with (and maybe is someone who shouldn't be trusted).
For the first time, this event was held in beautiful Choteau, Montana. Anyone who can't appreciate the beauty of Charmaine and the peacefulness of a gurgling creek is no one I care to associate with (and maybe is someone who shouldn't be trusted).
I spent today riding on part of the course and having my Specialized Fate dialed in by the SRAM mechanics. We also participated in a racer Q and A with Dave Wiens and showed Race Across the Sky as well. It was a relaxing and fun day, the sort of day you need just before a race. The course starts at 9300 ft and goes up to around 11,000, which means we won’t actually be breathing, just surviving! Two laps with two huge climbs and about 8000 ft total of climbing. It’s going to be a great training day and prep for Leadville. Most of the course is fireroad, but the views are absolutely stunning. Rumor has it that Lance Armstrong is showing up as well. The women’s field is strong with Jenny Smith, Kelli Emmett, Jari Kirkland and probably a bunch of other women I don’t know about. It’s great to see the popularity in endurance racing and to see more women lining up at the start line.
Crested Butte Mountain Resort has been super nice to me and put me up in a really nice hotel. I’ve been sort of decompressing...
What a great summer it has been so far! With the weather finally shaping up, USAC Nationals coming into town this week, and plenty of great racing and rides behind me, I feel like we are right in the middle of summer. I have been racing the Wood River Cup Short Track series on Wednesday nights when I can, to get some short hi-intensity riding in and race with friends. This event has been going on for years and it’s a great way for me to get back to the roots of racing. I really have been putting in a lot of work into events this year on the women’s side of things and the results have been tremendous. Every time I go out and ride I see more and more women on the trails, which is awesome for the cycling community as a whole.
The Ashland Ladies
Gold Rusch Tour stop #2, The Beti Bike Bash in Colorado was a huge success with the Ride Experience Sprinter van, ride clinics with the pros and a women’s only race.
Gold Rusch Tour stop #3, the Ashland Women’s media camp, also went off huge! We ruled the Avid Chainless...
Oil and natural gas drilling in the United States has returned to pre-recession levels and the drilling rig count is nearing a 20-year high according to a new graphical analysis by the independent research group Headwaters Economics based in Bozeman, Montana.
Since a recession-induced low in 2008, oil and natural gas drilling has made a strong recovery, said Julia Haggerty, the report's author. Market prices and advancements in drilling technology account for most of the increases, she said.
By late May 2011, national drilling activity was at 91 percent of a 20-year high last reached during the 2008 natural gas surge (2,031 rigs). Rig activity plunged in late 2008 in response to the global economic downturn and lower energy prices. Since then, the national rig count has steadily recovered. As of the week of May 27, 2011, the number of active drilling rigs is more than 1,800.
The Headwaters Economics fact sheet graphically analyzes several key indicators: trends in drilling rig counts by energy type compared to...(more)
Since a recession-induced low in 2008, oil and natural gas drilling has made a strong recovery, said Julia Haggerty, the report's author. Market prices and advancements in drilling technology account for most of the increases, she said.
By late May 2011, national drilling activity was at 91 percent of a 20-year high last reached during the 2008 natural gas surge (2,031 rigs). Rig activity plunged in late 2008 in response to the global economic downturn and lower energy prices. Since then, the national rig count has steadily recovered. As of the week of May 27, 2011, the number of active drilling rigs is more than 1,800.
The Headwaters Economics fact sheet graphically analyzes several key indicators: trends in drilling rig counts by energy type compared to...
Again with the clouds? This morning they are dark gray and droopy, pregnant with the rain that they will no doubt bear upon the already soggy ground.
I spent May being grateful for the rain. Rain is good, rain is life-giving... I know. But so is sunshine and I'm ready for it. I grew up in the high desert of Idaho's Snake River Plains and a lot of my formative years were drought-plagued. As a result, I cancel nearly anything on account of rain.
But I'm trying to shape up. I hate the idea of what's her nameLa Ninaboot-kicking me into a sniveling heap.
I assess my summer list.
I spent May being grateful for the rain. Rain is good, rain is life-giving... I know. But so is sunshine and I'm ready for it. I grew up in the high desert of Idaho's Snake River Plains and a lot of my formative years were drought-plagued. As a result, I cancel nearly anything on account of rain.
But I'm trying to shape up. I hate the idea of what's her nameLa Ninaboot-kicking me into a sniveling heap.
I assess my summer list.
The National Park Service will offer free admission to all visitors on Tuesday to celebrate the first day of summer.
The first day of summer is one of several free days offered by the National Park Service each year. The next fee-free day won't roll around until Public Lands Day on Sept. 24. Other fees, such as charges for camping, will still be in effect Tuesday.
The first day of summer is one of several free days offered by the National Park Service each year. The next fee-free day won't roll around until Public Lands Day on Sept. 24. Other fees, such as charges for camping, will still be in effect Tuesday.
On the first day of tee-ball practice, Ed O'Fallon learned that his primary mission in coaching his daughter's team would be to convince the fielders to pay attention to the action at the plate. Instead, the girls preferred to concentrate on refilling aeration holes with the grass-topped earth plugs that littered the outfield like turds. While the girls arrived, Ed checked his watch. He had two hours to spend with them before he left for work. The SWAT team commander had summoned him to assist on a high-risk warrant that afternoon.
The dozen-odd girls assembled reasonably on time the Saturday morning of their first practice. The team's nameThe Purple Unicornswas a relic of the tee-ball league's first season, when the coaches allowed players to suggest and vote on names for each club. The schedule the league office had issued Ed listed such competitors as the Denver Dream Stars, The Butterfly Power, The Christinaswhich Ed kind of likedand the Colorado Princess Brigade, a coach-...(more)
The dozen-odd girls assembled reasonably on time the Saturday morning of their first practice. The team's nameThe Purple Unicornswas a relic of the tee-ball league's first season, when the coaches allowed players to suggest and vote on names for each club. The schedule the league office had issued Ed listed such competitors as the Denver Dream Stars, The Butterfly Power, The Christinaswhich Ed kind of likedand the Colorado Princess Brigade, a coach-...
Naturally occurring uranium and the radioactive products it forms as it breaks down over time cannot be seen, tasted, or smelled in water. This lesson hit home for some residents in southwest Montana recently, when laboratory testing showed their well water contained high concentrations of radioactive material.
The East Entrance to Yellowstone National Park is set to reopen to limited visitor travel Wednesday morning, May 18, after being closed for a week.
The road which opened for the season on May 6, has been closed since May 11 due to unstable snow conditions and repeated avalanches across the road through Sylvan Pass.
Park avalanche forecasters have determined that the safest travel window across the pass will be during those early morning hours between 06:00 am and 10:00 am. Forecasting staff are closely monitoring weather, snowpack, moisture and all of the complex factors that go into determining the safety of opening the road for public travel.
The road which opened for the season on May 6, has been closed since May 11 due to unstable snow conditions and repeated avalanches across the road through Sylvan Pass.
Park avalanche forecasters have determined that the safest travel window across the pass will be during those early morning hours between 06:00 am and 10:00 am. Forecasting staff are closely monitoring weather, snowpack, moisture and all of the complex factors that go into determining the safety of opening the road for public travel.
Utah legislators hope a new law will keep a steady stream of film productions working in the state, according to the Daily Universe at Brigham Young University. The new law offers a partial rebate on in-state expenses made during the filming of the production, as well as other incentives designed to coax filmmakers to the state.
The filmmakers behind recent movies like True Grit and Cowboys and Aliens eyed Utah but later opted to film in New Mexico, the Universe reports.
The filmmakers behind recent movies like True Grit and Cowboys and Aliens eyed Utah but later opted to film in New Mexico, the Universe reports.
The video was done by David Holmes and other talented journalism students at Jay Rosen's NYU's Studio 20. It was part of their collaboration with ProPublica to build better explanations for stories. For more on fracking, its lack of regulation, and the potential for drinking water contamination, check out our now nearly three-year running investigation.
Building up Boulder County's local food system increasing the capacity for food to be grown, processed, distributed and sold within the county is a goal of Boulder-based nonprofit organization Transition Colorado. The organization's outlook is informed by the global Transition movement, a grassroots effort tied to the Transition Network in the United Kingdom and focused on strengthening communities dealing with what Michael Brownlee, cofounder of Transition Colorado, refers to as a convergence of global crises.
With his silvery hair pulled into a neat ponytail, 64-year-old Brownlee has a contemplative mien that melds with an unmasked pessimism about these impending crises: peak oil (the point at which global oil production hits its apex and begins to decline, resulting in rising fuel prices), global warming and economic instability.
Re-localizing the food economy dovetails with localizing manufacturing and energy production and is key to curbing consumption of resources, he said during an interview around a small...(more)
With his silvery hair pulled into a neat ponytail, 64-year-old Brownlee has a contemplative mien that melds with an unmasked pessimism about these impending crises: peak oil (the point at which global oil production hits its apex and begins to decline, resulting in rising fuel prices), global warming and economic instability.
Re-localizing the food economy dovetails with localizing manufacturing and energy production and is key to curbing consumption of resources, he said during an interview around a small...
Water is the lifeblood of the West. Everyone living in the West knows that. Without water, our future would wither away. That's why we must take the strains on the Colorado River seriously. Colorado River the water source for millions of Americans in seven states is over-allocated and feeling the stress.
According to a new report from the U.S. Interior Department, an increase in temperature is likely to result in reductions in spring and summer runoff, leading to a drop in water supply for meeting irrigation demands. Irrigation is essential to agriculture, and agriculture represents a huge percentage of our economy in the West.
Water is the lifeblood of our communities, rural and urban economies, and our environment, Secretary Ken Salazar said at the release of the report. And small changes in water supplies or the timing of precipitation can have a big impact on all of us.
Heating the region's rock-solid shale formations to extract hydrocarbon compounds called kerogen could consume nearly 373,000-acre feet of...(more)
According to a new report from the U.S. Interior Department, an increase in temperature is likely to result in reductions in spring and summer runoff, leading to a drop in water supply for meeting irrigation demands. Irrigation is essential to agriculture, and agriculture represents a huge percentage of our economy in the West.
Water is the lifeblood of our communities, rural and urban economies, and our environment, Secretary Ken Salazar said at the release of the report. And small changes in water supplies or the timing of precipitation can have a big impact on all of us.
Heating the region's rock-solid shale formations to extract hydrocarbon compounds called kerogen could consume nearly 373,000-acre feet of...
Knapweed, the much-maligned plant that has dominated whole swaths of the Western landscape, may have less of a hold thanks to some tiny insects.
Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder suggests knapweed may not be as uncontrollable as once thought. Tim Seastedt, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been using the knapweed weevil and the seedhead weevil, both native to southern Europe and eastern Russia, to control the weed.
The plant was spun as the wicked weed of the West and it's clearly been oversold, Seastedt said.
Spotted knapweed and diffuse knapweed are nonnative, invasive species that have the ability to take over entire ecosystems and crowd out native plants, said Steve Sauer, Boulder County weed supervisor for the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder suggests knapweed may not be as uncontrollable as once thought. Tim Seastedt, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been using the knapweed weevil and the seedhead weevil, both native to southern Europe and eastern Russia, to control the weed.
The plant was spun as the wicked weed of the West and it's clearly been oversold, Seastedt said.
Spotted knapweed and diffuse knapweed are nonnative, invasive species that have the ability to take over entire ecosystems and crowd out native plants, said Steve Sauer, Boulder County weed supervisor for the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
Eddie Bauer returns as a sponsor for this year’s Teva Mountain Games, June 2-5 in Vail, CO. Here’s your checklist of must-do’s at the event: - Look for our Airstream on International Bridge to score some swag - Get some awesome, exclusive First Ascent gear at our retail tent in Gear Town - Capture the [...]
Decades of land use litigation have crippled the Forest Service's planning process, causing the agency to become over-cautious and vague, according to environmental lawyer and scholar Mark Squillace. A proposed national planning rule, for which public comments close on May 16, is too complex, time-consuming, and fraught with unnecessary choices that invite litigation, says Squillace, director of the Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder.
I really think the forest planning process is broken, and one of the reasons is they spend so much time revising the plan and they don't really improve it, because it becomes static over time. he says. It's really about monitoring, not assessment. What you want is a monitoring program that's constantly looking at what's happening in the forest.
Squillace, who has worked in the Department of the Interior and was director of litigation for the Environmental Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., says monitoring of many conditions, such...(more)
I really think the forest planning process is broken, and one of the reasons is they spend so much time revising the plan and they don't really improve it, because it becomes static over time. he says. It's really about monitoring, not assessment. What you want is a monitoring program that's constantly looking at what's happening in the forest.
Squillace, who has worked in the Department of the Interior and was director of litigation for the Environmental Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., says monitoring of many conditions, such...
On Thursday Ted Conover will be awarded the Evil Companions Literary Award, the longest-running literary prize in Denver, honoring distinguished writers with ties to the West. According to the website of the Denver Public Library Friends Foundation, the award pays homage to a group of Denver writers who met in the 1950s and '60s to drink and discuss writing, and dubbed themselves the Evil Companions. Conover grew up in Denver and has produced five engrossing, acclaimed works of investigative journalism, beginning with 1984's Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes, which he published when he was 26. Conover's Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent book, The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World (Vintage, 352 pages, $15.95), is now available in paperback. I invited Conover to take a look back at his accomplished career, and he answered some questions via email about his books and how he sought to move...
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I feel cheap. I feel like I owe him a lot more. I feel like I'm trying to explain sex to my son, and I just copped out and bought him a blow-up doll instead.
But it is March and the snow continues to fall and another season is so goddam far away that I have no choice but to focus on more immediate distractions and put the thought of it out of my head. I imagine that his approach is not much different.
But it is March and the snow continues to fall and another season is so goddam far away that I have no choice but to focus on more immediate distractions and put the thought of it out of my head. I imagine that his approach is not much different.
With a government shutdown looming, officials at Rocky Mountain National Park are preparing to close the gates and shut down the park if the federal leaders fail to pass a budget. But Sheriff Justin Smith in neighboring Larimer County, which borders the north and east sides of the park, says he and his deputies can keep the park gates open.
The citizens deserve access to their national park, and the merchants who depend on the visitors can count on the Sheriff's Office to keep the park safe, Smith announced Thursday. The entrance stations may not be staffed to collect fees and hand out maps, but that shouldn't stop visitors from being able to enjoy their park.
Smith told The Denver Post the small business owners in Estes Park were a major factor in his plan:
When politicians say the parks are closed, what that truly does (is) it takes merchants in a little town like Estes Park and it kills their business. ... These are my constituents, and they've come through a tough recession. And for some game-playing in Washington,...(more)
The citizens deserve access to their national park, and the merchants who depend on the visitors can count on the Sheriff's Office to keep the park safe, Smith announced Thursday. The entrance stations may not be staffed to collect fees and hand out maps, but that shouldn't stop visitors from being able to enjoy their park.
Smith told The Denver Post the small business owners in Estes Park were a major factor in his plan:
When politicians say the parks are closed, what that truly does (is) it takes merchants in a little town like Estes Park and it kills their business. ... These are my constituents, and they've come through a tough recession. And for some game-playing in Washington,...
Its kind of fitting that the opening-round ECHL playoff series between the Idaho Steelheads and Las Vegas Wranglers is tied.
When Fiberforge Corp. moved into Glenwood Springs, Colo., earlier this year, it was the sort of economic development small towns across Colorado and the West dream about. The company, which makes lightweight thermoplastic parts for everything from backpacks to military helicopters, offers high-wage jobs, from assemblers to engineers, and isn't a big polluter.
For Glenwood Mayor Bruce Christensen, the question for Gov. John Hickenlooper was, why can't those things happen more often?
We need some way that the state can bring capital into small towns to offer new jobs, Christensen told the governor on Thursday as he stopped in the Western Slope town, part of his Bottom-Up Economic Development Plan tour scheduled to take him to all 64 counties to listen to locals about what the state can do to help their economies.
For Glenwood Mayor Bruce Christensen, the question for Gov. John Hickenlooper was, why can't those things happen more often?
We need some way that the state can bring capital into small towns to offer new jobs, Christensen told the governor on Thursday as he stopped in the Western Slope town, part of his Bottom-Up Economic Development Plan tour scheduled to take him to all 64 counties to listen to locals about what the state can do to help their economies.
Even in the increasingly diverse Western states, it's still rare to find established Islamic communities, either in cities like Denver or in more isolated mountain towns. It would seem that followers of Islam, for one reason or the other, have simply bypassed the West.
And that's exactly the kind of misconception that Dr. Nabil Echchaibi, assistant professor of journalism and media studies at the University of Colorado and associate director of the University's Center for Media, Religion and Culture, is out to correct. Muslims have a rich history in the Mountain West, he says, and he has spent the last two years researching and documenting this legacy as part of a cultural history project co-funded by the Social Science Research Council and CU.
And that's exactly the kind of misconception that Dr. Nabil Echchaibi, assistant professor of journalism and media studies at the University of Colorado and associate director of the University's Center for Media, Religion and Culture, is out to correct. Muslims have a rich history in the Mountain West, he says, and he has spent the last two years researching and documenting this legacy as part of a cultural history project co-funded by the Social Science Research Council and CU.
When an earthquake hits anywhere in the world, the seismologists at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado, are quick to know about it.
Operating 24/7, the Center, a core part of the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program, is plugged into real-time feeds from a network of thousands of earthquake-monitoring instruments around the globe.
For many years, the Center has played an important role in sending out information about the magnitude and exact location of earthquakes within minutes of them happening. Some 230,000 people around the world currently receive earthquake notifications via text message or email, said Geological Survey seismologist David Wald in a telephone interview.
While Richter scale magnitude measurements quantify the size of an earthquake, they don't indicate the extent and intensity of ground shaking or give an idea of how people and buildings nearby will be affected, said Wald.
That's why Wald and his team created the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes...(more)
Operating 24/7, the Center, a core part of the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program, is plugged into real-time feeds from a network of thousands of earthquake-monitoring instruments around the globe.
For many years, the Center has played an important role in sending out information about the magnitude and exact location of earthquakes within minutes of them happening. Some 230,000 people around the world currently receive earthquake notifications via text message or email, said Geological Survey seismologist David Wald in a telephone interview.
While Richter scale magnitude measurements quantify the size of an earthquake, they don't indicate the extent and intensity of ground shaking or give an idea of how people and buildings nearby will be affected, said Wald.
That's why Wald and his team created the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes...
This recipe is basically just eggs, shallots and garlic. Shallots are smaller, sweeter cousins to onions, and a little more subtle in flavor. I use eggs from my family's farm, but you can use whichever local producer you prefer. As you can see in the photo, we have one chicken on our farm that lays green eggs, and while it has no bearing on the flavor of the soup, this pleases me to no end.
I'm generally too lazy to separate the whites and yolks, but it comes out much prettier if you do. You can also stir in some cornstarch to make this closer to the classic Chinese restaurant thickened consistency, but it's not necessary.
I'm generally too lazy to separate the whites and yolks, but it comes out much prettier if you do. You can also stir in some cornstarch to make this closer to the classic Chinese restaurant thickened consistency, but it's not necessary.
The beginnings of a spring thaw must have mobilized the region's writers, because most of what I have to report today has to do with regional book tours:
• Denver author Cara Lopez Lee will visit Fact & Fiction in Missoula at 7 p.m. tonight to discuss her memoir They Only Eat Their Husbands: A Memoir of Alaskan Love, World Travel, and the Power of Running Away (Ghost Road Press, $19.95). The publisher describes the book in this way:
At twenty-six, after a lover threatens to kill her, Cara runs away to Alaska. In the Last Frontier she lands in a love triangle with two alcoholics: Sean the martial artist and Chance the paraglider pilot. Nine years later, sick of love, she runs again, to backpack around the world alone. They Only Eat Their Husbands is a memoir of her yearlong trek, against a backdrop of reflections on her life and loves in Alaska.
Also in the Roundup: Book tours for Tim Sullivan and Ruth McLaughlin, Ted Conover wins the Evil Companions Literary Award, and I'll talk to Chrie Newman on this week's The...(more)
• Denver author Cara Lopez Lee will visit Fact & Fiction in Missoula at 7 p.m. tonight to discuss her memoir They Only Eat Their Husbands: A Memoir of Alaskan Love, World Travel, and the Power of Running Away (Ghost Road Press, $19.95). The publisher describes the book in this way:
At twenty-six, after a lover threatens to kill her, Cara runs away to Alaska. In the Last Frontier she lands in a love triangle with two alcoholics: Sean the martial artist and Chance the paraglider pilot. Nine years later, sick of love, she runs again, to backpack around the world alone. They Only Eat Their Husbands is a memoir of her yearlong trek, against a backdrop of reflections on her life and loves in Alaska.
Also in the Roundup: Book tours for Tim Sullivan and Ruth McLaughlin, Ted Conover wins the Evil Companions Literary Award, and I'll talk to Chrie Newman on this week's The...
We can't develop a national strategy if our policy choices are simply reactive. To me, the best public policy decisions reflect an understanding of where we need to go, matched by the data from existing demographics. We should start with who are we? That's the critical question to answer before we debate resources.
Who are we? We are divided by demographics. We are older and white; we are younger and brown. It's those two trends that we must figure out before we answer any question about resources.
Consider New Mexico as the future of America.
There are going to be more and more states that are going to look like New Mexico, Mark Mather, a demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, a Washington-based nonprofit that tracks international demographics, said in the Denver Post.
Who are we? We are divided by demographics. We are older and white; we are younger and brown. It's those two trends that we must figure out before we answer any question about resources.
Consider New Mexico as the future of America.
There are going to be more and more states that are going to look like New Mexico, Mark Mather, a demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, a Washington-based nonprofit that tracks international demographics, said in the Denver Post.
