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The Animas River Watershed, Mining Contamination, and the Need for Stronger Intervention

Nature, Nonfiction, Student Writings, Writings / By

Many Colorado citizens are concerned about the impending difficulties related to old mines and the problems that arise due to their closing and inadequate care during or after. There are more than 300 mines in the Silverton Caldera alone. They have all increased the exposure of mineralized formations to groundwater. The EPA approach of dam-and-treat […]

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First-Born

Creative Writing, Writings / By

Fourteen years this month since she first took note of Capricorn wheeling his ancient cryptogram again and again across winter skies and ushering her child into the world. He never seemed to mind sharing his show with Christmas, probably felt in his younger years a jolly Jesus-camaraderie, a knowing unalloyed by age and sophistication that

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Minimizing Lake Erie’s Algae Bloom Impact on Ohio

Analysis, Nature, Nonfiction, Student Writings, Writings / By

The thought of algae conjures up an image of slimy green gunk covering water no one would want to touch. Or a pool not properly maintained. Or a putrid smell. However, many fail to recognize the severity of an algae bloom’s impact on human and animal health, the environment, and even a region’s economy. The

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Interview with Sandra Knauf, Author of Please Don’t Piss on the Petunias

Eric Stephenson, Interviews, Nonfiction, Writings / By

Sandra Knauf has worn many hats in her garden writing career—she’s been a “Colorado Voices” columnist for The Denver Post and her work has appeared nationally in publications that include GreenPrints and Mary Janes Farm; she’s shared her work locally here on USR and on Colorado Springs’s NPR affiliate radio station KRCC. In 2011, she

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America’s Rights

Creative Nonfiction, Nonfiction / By

The only thing as bad as the naïve, self-promoting bureaucratic, self-pitying, excuse-making, manipulative, overly idealistic, pretentious, system-sucking Democrat is the self-righteous, birth-entitled, Christian “Right,” “everyone-has-a-choice” preaching, bean-counting, in-denial-of-their social advantage, and blind to how the other half must live Republican. The only thing as great as the forward thinking, solution focused, empathetic, compassionate, self-sacrificing, social-class

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