Everything Denver, Everywhere You Are
When the High Park inferno spared our home, our first emotion was relief. But even though we were lucky, we didn’t realize how much work was still left to do.
Colorado has a thorny relationship with water. University of Colorado Boulder professor Patricia Limerick explores that interplay in A Ditch in Time: The City, the West, and Water. Three fun facts we learned from the book:
Karen Minniear and her family survived the 2010 Fourmile Fire in Boulder County. Their home did not. In this interview, she talks about the lessons she learned and gives insight into what the victims of this year’s wildfires are going through now.
Following a drop of water down the mighty Colorado, one of the world’s most embattled rivers.
Colorado has grown rapidly over recent decades, as more and more people crowd inside our borders. Our water, unfortunately, is a limited resource. And we’re almost out.
Picking—and cooking—wild plants found in Denver’s urban landscape.
Denver enjoys some of the nation’s cleanest drinking water, thanks to Hamlet “Chips” J. Barry III, manager of Denver Water for the past 17 years. Here, the 64-year-old Denver native and Theodore Roosevelt look-alike expounds on family, global warming, and water usage in the West.
