Stuff by Dale Will

• Locations: Columns, Opinion By Dale Will Published Oct. 25, 2023

  Wildlife McCarthyism, impact credits and the humility necessary to share Earth’s beauty

  CVEPA Views : Dale Will

  Early in my career, I clerked at the Environmental Defense Fund trying to help negotiate changes in California’s massive irrigation system, trying to stave off the extinction of the Sacramento River winter run of Chinook salmon. The irrigation system, known as the Central Valley Project, irrigates a good share of… read more →

• Locations: Columns, Opinion By Dale Will Published May. 24, 2023

  CVEPA Views: John Osgood, Pitkin County and the Battle at Red Wind Point

  CVEPA Views : Dale Will

  The first whites in the Crystal Valley traveled on the Ute Trail, as well documented by the Hayden surveys in 1873. Whites brought with them the wheel, and no sooner than the first homesteads were staked, petitions began flowing into the nascent Pitkin County clerk’s office requesting a wagon road.… read more →

• Locations: Columns, Opinion By Dale Will Published Jan. 25, 2023

  Land conservation as an act of philanthropy

  CVEPA Views : Dale Will

  On Dec. 20, 2022, Jeff and Janette Bier donated 8.5 acres adjacent to the Marble Wetlands to the Trust for Land Restoration (TLR). The 55-acre Marble Wetlands was donated to TLR a year earlier by an anonymous individual. These properties lie between lands already owned by the Division of Colorado… read more →

• Locations: Columns, Opinion Published Oct. 26, 2022

  Thoughts on the Hayden, the Meeker Uprising, and the Crystal Trail

  CVEPA Views : Dale Will

  When Ferdinand Hayden’s team of surveyors entered the Crystal Valley in 1873, they noted the existence of a “hardened trail” running from the summit of what is now known as Schofield Pass down to the confluence of the Roaring Fork and Colorado Rivers. At this point, the surveyors were the… read more →