A couple days ago I finally moved on from Carbondale. I’m higher now, on the forested Uncompahgre Plateau in southwest Colorado. On Google Earth it’s the huge dark washboard south of Grand Junction and the interstate, west of Montrose and the Rockies, north of the San Juan range, and east of the Utah border. The […]
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6/11 – 6/13 Every survey has an instruction sheet with information like driving directions to the access point, a topographic relief map showing the 16 survey points, and a name for the survey bestowed by a past technician. The instructions also tell if the survey is a “backpacker” — far enough from the nearest road
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Pet store on Main Street, Cañon City. Dim in there. Is that how the animals like it? I went in, curious. A scarlet macaw eyed me from a big cage with gray metal bars and newspaper on the floor, unmoving but for the occasional scream. I couldn’t help noticing the cage was narrower than the
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This evening in rolling pinyon parkland above the little town of Gardner. Quiet and silvery. I was roving at sunset, trying to familiarize myself with the birds. Shy pinyon jays keeping their distance and a lanky common nighthawk whirring overhead. Otherwise no one. The beauty radiating through me, stopped near a hill crest and looked
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