Wilderness, as Wallace Stegner wrote in his Wilderness Letter, “... can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.” David Brower’s son, Kenneth Brower, recently wrote, “Wilderness reminds us of...

Water is the life of the West. About 80 percent of Colorado’s water is sourced in the mountains of the West Slope. These “water towers” capture and store water as snow. As the snow melts in spring and summer, soils absorb that water, which is then...

Wildlife is integral to wildlands. Without wildlife, the landscape, although perhaps beautiful, is just scenery. With wildlife, the evolutionary dance on the “stage of life” continues to create a world full of biological diversity that is...