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fence collisions and sage grouse

The following is the beginning of a piece by Cat Urbigkit that showed up on Stephen Bodio’s Querencia blog yesterday: Making headlines across the West of late is a two-page preliminary report issued by a Wyoming Game and Fish Department … Continue reading

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de-watering wyoming

Today’s New York Times has an editorial about a proposed pipeline that would take 80 billion gallons from the Green River watershed in southwest Wyoming and carry to Denver and Colorado Springs to aid in further development of that area.  … Continue reading

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drilling for natural gas comes to my hometown

Just when you thought it was safe to poke your head out of the hole it’s been in all winter, you get slapped upside the head by rumors of the natural gas circus coming to town. We live almost on … Continue reading

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winter hawking in wyoming

Several years ago Tim and I visited Steve Chindgren at his cabin in January to watch him do some winter sage grouse hawking. The days began well before dawn when Steve got up and loaded his falcons and dogs into the … Continue reading

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book

My book, Falconer on the Edge: A Man, his Birds, and the Vanishing Landscape of the American West, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this coming spring.  This has been an interesting process — I followed Steve Chindgren, a … Continue reading

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