You may have already noticed, but bear activity in town is heating up. According to the City of Durango, the “significant uptick” is driven, in part, by a poor acorn crop due to dry conditions. It’s a ...

Born Jan. 17, 1914 – died Aug. 28, 1993. Like bookends, his life supported many people’s reading and writing lives, including mine. He still does. Every August I revive this memory of a poet and ...

Booker Brenneman inside the newly re-opened Graze Colorado, off the alley on 7th Street between Main and E. 2nd. The local ...

With 14 fourteeners, the San Juan Mountains are the third-busiest in the state behind the Front Range (Pike’s and Long Peak) ...

Move 1: He demonized the undocumented by declaring that undocumented border crossings represented a threat to democracy, and he promised to institute “police state” programs to curtail them. He made ...

I look forward to reading Jonathan Thompson’s new book River of Lost Souls, about the Gold King Mine disaster. The popular myth is that the river was named after members of a party of Spanish ...

It’s happening earlier and earlier every year. At the start of the new millennium, the black bears living around Durango typically started emerging from their winter dens around mid-April. Today, ...

Walk & Wonder, a walkers’ meetup, Thursdays, 11 a.m.-12 noon thru Aug. 31, White Rabbit Books & Curiosities, 128 W. 14th St., Ste C-2 ...

To the editor, I was honored to share some lessons learned about ranching in wolf country at the Durango Wolf Symposium on Nov. 29. And I was disappointed by the letter to the editor (Dec. 6) sent by ...

America’s richest family is getting into the mountain biking biz. Walmart heirs Sam and Ben Walton – both avid riders – are breaking ground on a new bike park in Pitkin County. The 4.7-mile trail ...