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A Letter from the Editor on Why Basin & Range Magazine is getting back to work in 2022.
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Across the 13 western US States, the COVID-19 virus is having a recognizable impact on everything from daily life for local residents, health care, travel, tourism, and everything in between. …
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The lower eleven Western U.S. states – Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming – cover an enormously diverse landscape of untapped opportunities.  Drew …
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Tucked against the dramatic backdrop of northern New Mexico’s vast and towering landscape lies the legendary Ghost Ranch. A place whose 21,000 acres of red rock canyons, mountain vistas and …
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The Rocky Mountain Land Library has been called one of Colorado’s most treasured collections of books.  The 35,000+ private book collection primarily focuses on the West’s landscape, diverse history and legendary people. …
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From skiing corn in the high mountains to soaking up the superblooms of the desert flowers, April in the West can mean lots of things to lots of people.  But …
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Guest writer, Bill Veazie, sends us this Mountain Dispatch from deep inside the Gunnison National Forest’s, West Elk Wilderness.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget there is another Colorado besides the …
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The overnight low at Winter Park, Colorado the other night was 32 degrees.  It won’t take too many more of those chilling temperatures to kick-start the West’s changing of the seasons.  To get …
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“This landscape is unlike anything I have ever seen. How inadequate are my words….” July 2, 1866 – Bayard Taylor.

Colorado’s reputation as a perfect summertime adventure destination didn’t seem to …
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