With Governor Bill Ritter announcing his retirement as a public official, Mayor John Hickenlooper is eyeing the Golden Dome. Check out my analysis in the March issue of 5280 or online.

Making sense of the mountain pine beetle infestation. Check out a PDF of the story here. (Mountain Sports and Living, Spring 2010)

Dale Lasater takes an old-school approach to ranching: He places good cattle on the Colorado prairie—and then leaves the rest to nature. Check out a PDF here. (5280, March 2010)