Conservationist Beetle Kill Management Recomendations
Conservation Biologist Management Suggestion Beetle kill in the Rocky Mountains is a natural event, one that is typically mitigated by nature through deep freezes and fires. However, due to rising global temperatures attributed to humans, as a conservation biologist I am most interested in restoring the lost balances. Thus far there are two types of … Read more
glacial maws
Action drove me from my paralysis. Before that, there had been fear. It snuck up, gripped me by my throat, drummed wildly against my heart, and threw its dark magic into my eyes. It crowded the space in between my brain and skull, horror vacuii set in like Ooblek’s goo. I couldn’t move. I was … Read more
Red Herrings, Pollen, and Biodiversity
Biodiversity is not an economic issue, but a red herring when you run out of real arguments… [An ecological service] is another non-economic red herring. What is an ecological service? Protecting a watershed is ridiculous. –Jerry Abboud, Executive Director of Coalition of Off Highway Vehicles Colorado (COHVCO) The Rhetoric of Nature Deficit Disorder With 80% … Read more
Eagles Nest Wilderness: A Quest for Miserable Bliss
Surprisingly, the ever-so-close-to-Denver Eagles Nest Wilderness offers the same amount of solace that is found in a serious episode of binge drinking. After a handful of inconveniences in which me and my backpacking companion felt confined to either the Lost Creek Wilderness or to the Mount Evans Wilderness (for matters of geographic convenience in relation … Read more
Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign: Contesting and Defining Wilderness in Colorado’s Central Rocky Mountains
[This is an abridged version of a research paper for an Environmental Policy class at the University of Colorado Denver] What’s the controversial issue? Throughout the last few years, there have been heated and contentious debates regarding the type of landscapes that the Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign (HGWC) proposes to preserve as Wilderness. The landscapes … Read more
The Conflict of Religious Idealism & Liberal Education in Persepolis
In 1979 the Islamic Revolution swept through Iran, changing its social and political geography forever. The graphic novel Persepolis shows some of the effects the revolution had on the nation through the eyes of a young Iranian girl. A powerful theme in the novel is the Islamic Republic’s response to the public’s protests against the … Read more
Boulder Velodrome Brings Latin Back to Biking
Posted by sainteterre on March 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment
[An article Jason wrote for the University of Colorado's student paper, The Advocate.] Original article Leave it to the cycle geeks in Boulder to build something called a velodrome. In order to understand this awkward Latinate word, and why it literally means “track-for-speed,” I went to Boulder Indoor Cycling Center to see what object merited … Read more
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