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Pika may signal change

As you start hiking through the talus, watching the clouds gather overhead, you hear it. A very distinct squeak. Did your dog find a squeaky toy hidden in the rocks? Probably not. Then you h...

DATE: Jul 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

High-altitude pika may signal climate change

As you start hiking through the talus, watching the clouds gather overhead, you hear it. A very distinct squeak. Did your dog find a squeaky toy hidden in the rocks? Probably not. Then you h...

DATE: Jul 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

High-altitude pika may signal climate change

As you start hiking through the talus, watching the clouds gather overhead, you hear it. A very distinct squeak. Did your dog find a squeaky toy hidden in the rocks? Probably not. Then you h...

DATE: Jul 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

One last sunset

Suicides in western national parks

DATE: Jul 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

The Tupperware model of selling solar

ARIZONA AND THE NATION It is puzzling, perhaps, that solar power accounts for less than 1 percent of the electricity generated in the United States. The cost of solar panels conti...

DATE: Jul 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Heard Around the West

Wildfires

We can’t say<br/>‘no more’ anymore

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Praising a Biden on guns

Nuclear efficiency systems engineer Jeremy Preston moved back into his house in Delaware from Tennessee, where his license to carry a concealed weapon was also legal in Delaware. ...

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

Monuments ... blah. National parks ... ooh!

There’s been a lot of hoopla and public meetings here in Grand Junction, Colo., about turning the nearby Colorado National Monument into a national park. My opinion is simply: Why not? ...

DATE: Jul 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Treasures don’t have to be parks

As a close neighbor and regular user of Colorado National Monument in western Colorado close to Grand Junction, I suffered a sharp attack of NIMBYism when I heard of a 2011 proposal to turn ...

DATE: Jul 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Books and children

Early-literacy programs<br/>build firm foundation<br/>for a child’s later success

DATE: Jul 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: MECC Cares for kids

Ford’s legacy transporting disabled vets

After being wounded during the WWI Meuse-Argonne Offensive in November 1918 then Capt., now Superior Court Judge, Robert Marx hosted a Christmas party in 1920. During the party, discussion c...

DATE: Jul 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Veterans Forum

Much more than a meal and a bed

Bridge helps meet needs beyond basic shelter and food

DATE: Jul 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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