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The Marshall Fire tore through suburbs on Colorado’s Front Range on Dec. 30, destroying 991 structures and damaging 127. The ignition point and cause is still under investigation. But there is little question that climate change-induced drought, weather whiplash, and warming temperatures set the stage for the wintertime conflagration.
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A USGS coring study of Lake Powell reveals water quality calamities of the past, many of them originating in the mountains around Silverton.
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The "Spanish Flu" killed 10% of Silverton's population.
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Jonathan Thompson shares an extended essay about the beleaguered lower Dolores River.
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On housing and the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us.
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Biden to restore pre-Trump boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.
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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s latest projections for the Colorado River system say Lake Powell could drop below the minimum power pool next year, meaning Glen Canyon Dam could no longer generate hydropower.
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The contentious experiment of headquartering the Bureau of Land Management in the Western U.S. among the lands it manages has come to an end — sort of.
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A 4-Corners Trip is a study in contrast and contradiction.