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 viviendas que habían fundado tenía […]
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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 cualquier momento les pudieran quitar sus hogares y ahora, lo peor ha sucedido. A […]
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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 admit their predictions have come true faster than […]
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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, perched above Paonia, population 1,500. He keeps […]
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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 streets and funky houses with affordable rent. […]