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John Fielder, the man who loved natural beauty

By Betsy Marston | PREVIEW Columnist If you’ve ever bought a calendar or coffee table book featuring the grandeur of Colorado’s 14’ers, the stunning color...

Wildland firefighters need our support

By Gregory McNamee | PREVIEW Columnist At any given moment during this smoky summer of 2023, hundreds of wildfires were blazing in the United States...

Mountains in wilderness don’t need hardware

By Dana Johnson | PREVIEW Columnist We humans want the most out of life, so why shouldn’t we push to get more of what we...

Backcountry heroes always try to bring us back

By Molly Absolon | PREVIEW Columnist When I was leading groups into the Wyoming wilderness in the 1990s, once we left a trailhead we were...

When giants fall, we need to listen

Photo courtesy Joe Stone Sequoia National Forest. By Joe Stone | SUN Columnist “God has cared for these trees ... but he cannot save them from...

Chronicle of an abandoned oil and gas well — one of millions

By Jonathan Thompson PREVIEW Columnist Even from a distance, it’s clear that an oil and gas well called State Senate #2 in New Mexico has seen...

New Mexico court upholds public access

By Reed D. Benson | PREVIEW Columnist Every state in the West has some type of law declaring that its waters belong to the public....

Coming soon: the apocalypse, maybe

By Pepper Trail | PREVIEW Columnist Just about every video game, young adult novel and buzz-worthy streaming series agree that we need to prepare for...

Will salmon finally win this year?

By Rocky Barker | PREVIEW Columnist For the last 35 years, I’ve been covering what we call the “salmon wars” in the Pacific Northwest, writing...

We need every tool to fight today’s wildfires

By Steve Pyne | PREVIEW Columnist We know now that the largest recorded fire in New Mexico history was started by an escaped “prescribed burn,”...

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