Writers on the Range

  • Locations: Español Published

    La vivienda accesible no debería ser un milagro

    Por Benjamin Waddell

    Traducción por Dolores Duarte

    Los residentes del Westside Mobile Home Park de Durango, en el sur de Colorado, lo calificaron como un milagro. Tienen un contrato para comprar el terreno en el que se asientan sus casas, su alquiler no subirá y demostraron que la cooperativa de… read more →

  • Locations: Español Published

    Residentes de parque de remolques tienen un plan para convertirse en propietarios

    Por Benjamin Waddell

    Traducción por Dolores Duarte

    En las afueras de Durango hay un parqueadero de trailas llamado Westside por el que he pasado toda mi vida. Sin embargo, los residentes han vivido durante mucho tiempo con el temor de que en cualquierread more →

  • Locations: Columns, Opinion Published

    The Colorado River is sending us a message

    By Gary Wockner

    Writers on the Range

    It feels like an apocalypse in the Southwest – wildfires, floods, drought, heat, smoke. This was not the norm when I moved to Colorado 35 years ago. Climate scientists may have predicted the arrival of these extreme events, but many… read more →

  • Locations: Columns, Opinion Published

    Looking back to when water was plentiful

    By Dave Marston

    During his 50 years in rural western Colorado, Jamie Jacobson has seen a lot of flooding. While caretaking a farm in 1974, Jacobson watched three acres of its riverfront float away. More recently, it’s been drought, and then worse drought.

    Jacobson farms on Lamborn Mesa,…

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  • Locations: Columns Published

    Somerset left in the lurch

    Only about 100 people live in Somerset in western Colorado, a former coal company town squeezed into a narrow valley. A state highway and railroad tracks crowd on one side, the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the other.
    Some say there’s charm in the town’s narrow… read more →