Walking On the Wild Side, 5280

Walking On the Wild Side, 5280, August 2019

Colorado is in the midst of a trail-building bonanza. But research has revealed an inconvenient truth: The humans recreating on these trails are negatively impacting wildlife populations throughout the state. Is there a way to spend time in the backcountry responsibly without endangering the state’s fauna? One morning this past August, I pedaled my mountain…

River Revival

River Revival, 5280, May 2017

River advocates recently secured nearly $8 million to revitalize a roughly 30-mile stretch of the Colorado River headwaters. It’s the largest such restoration ever attempted on the Centennial State’s signature waterway and it required nothing short of a miracle to pull off: a truce between sworn enemies. In the fall of 2002, while his fellow…