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Category Archives: January 2006
Unwanted immigrants: Africanized bees are steadily spreading closer to Colorado
Swarms of “killer” bees, an aggressive hybrid true to their name, have long inhabited Texas, Nevada and southern Arizona. More recently they have been spreading through New Mexico, arriving in Santa Fe neighborhoods last November. Will they migrate further north … Continue reading
Published in January 2006
Seeking a pollution solution
Jim Hook, owner of the Recapture Lodge in Bluff, Utah, brings forth an empty, dusty old wine bottle. It has a dilapidated cigar shoved down its neck, and around its middle is taped an official vote tally from a 1997 … Continue reading
Published in January 2006
Relocated: A new visitors center leaves vendors in Monument Valley with an uncertain future
What is now graded red sand at the junction of Highway 163 and the Monument Valley Road in Utah was, just six months ago, the “Vendor Village,” also referred to as the Monument Valley Mall. It consisted of two lines … Continue reading
Published in January 2006
Learning about life through bits and pieces
“In the dry early summer of 1992, I am still nominally a physician, but I dig in dirt these days, instead of taking stock of my patients’ bodies, attending only to bones stripped of muscle, blood and brain. . .” … Continue reading
Published in Arts & Entertainment, January 2006
Future of roadless areas in limbo
The Clinton roadless rule vs. Bush’s state petitioning rule Keep roadless areas roadless. That was the message delivered by a majority of speakers at a meeting of Colorado’s Roadless Area Task Force on a wintry night at the Tamarron Resort … Continue reading
Published in January 2006