On the cover “Flow,” a collage by local artist Matt Clark, aka Lil Bud Designs, in honor of this weekend’s Animas River Days.
Short legs, big party
On most days, Tracy Harwood spends her time as a court clerk for the City of Durango. But next Thurs., June 4 – International Corgi Day – she hopes to bring something entirely different to town: short legs, wiggly butts and oversized personalities.
“I’ve had this corgi for almost three years,” Harwood said of her dog, Claire. “I got her as a puppy, and she is the funnest dog I’ve ever had. She’s got the biggest personality.”
That personality, Harwood says, seems to come standard with the breed.
“They’re just the funnest, quirkiest little dogs,” she said. “Everybody who has one, they get it. I know why Queen Elizabeth had so many.”
Inspired by popular corgi gatherings around the country, Harwood decided Durango needed one of its own. Events like the Tour de Corgi in Fort Collins have drawn hundreds – even thousands – of dogs over the years, while also raising money for local animal shelters. Boise hosts a large corgi gathering as well.
“Durango celebrates everything else, so why can’t we have one?” Harwood said.
This year’s event, called the Corgi Crawl, is intentionally small. Harwood said she wanted to test the waters before investing in permits and larger planning efforts.
“The city said that we could do a sidewalk parade without having to do any of those,” she said. “So I’m just trying to see how much interest I get.”
She has promoted the event through Facebook and flyers from Farmington to Pagosa Springs. If turnout is strong, Harwood hopes the Corgi Crawl could eventually grow into a larger annual celebration.
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Harwood believes there are already plenty of corgis scattered throughout Durango and La Plata County. Friends and fellow dog lovers have been helping spread the word, and she said even corgi admirers, who don’t necessarily have one, are encouraged to attend.
The event will begin at Buckley Park, costumes are encouraged, and there will be prizes. Still, for Harwood, the event is about more than prizes or even corgis.
“I’m just trying to bring some joy back,” she said. “Do something fun, familyfriendly.” And in Durango, she added, “We make a party out of anything.”
Claire the Corgi
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Navajo tea
Before I begin writing, there’s a ritual I’ve invented for myself that I always need to honor. I must have tea to help guide my imagination. It’s a specific kind of tea. From my cupboard, I reach for a container of dry wildflowers. The long thin stems are folded and bundled together. The flower petals look like they’re hugging the stems. I place the bundle into an old tea kettle, fill it with water and let it all boil. The tea I’m making is called ch’il ahwéhí, or Navajo tea/wild tea.
The wildflower I’m using is commonly called greenthread. During the spring and summer, it grows throughout the Southwest, especially around the Navajo Nation. The flowers thrive in the desert. The thin stems can grow up to 2 feet, they lift the yellow flowers as far as they can toward the sky. On the rez, you either know where to find batches of greenthread or you know someone with plenty to offer. Navajo tea has been a constant in my life. I keep it in supply at my apartment in Durango, and it keeps me connected to home. What I cherish most about Navajo tea is the way it conjures up childhood memories and spending time with my elders, including my great-grandmother, Josephine.
I grew up in Shiprock, raised by a single mother, but on the reservation, she had a support network of family to help. Since there were periods of time when my mom’s schedule was filled with school and work, I wasn’t just raised by her. I was raised by aunts, uncles and grandparents. But it was my great-grandmother whom I spent so much time with as a child. When other relatives were unavailable, great-grandma Josephine was always ready to take me in. She lived on the north side of town, which wasn’t too far from the apartment mom and I lived in. That proximity to home provided some reassurance. To keep me occupied, she had a house full of cats, and outside there were trees to climb, and further out, there were old sheds and barns to explore.
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When you’re a child, hours are not measured in minutes. They’re measured in emotions. And boredom can feel like an eternity. If it goes on long enough, boredom can turn into doubt and worry. There were times my mother worked late, and I was left waiting longer than expected. I’d get anxiety, worrying about her. Then I’d start to wonder, “What if she never comes back for me?” In these stressed moments, my great-grandma would find me standing outside in her yard, leaning against a fence post, staring down the stretch of dirt road, keeping an eye out for my mom’s truck. My disappointment and unease accumulated with every passing vehicle that wasn’t hers. Eventually, greatgrandma would come for me. We’d walk back to her house and, to calm me, she would make some tea. I’d watch her take a bundle of dried wildflowers and drop them into a tea kettle. We’d sit at the dinner table while the kettle filled the kitchen with hisses and bubbling.
So many years stand between me and these childhood memories. I can’t recall any stories my great-grandmother would’ve told me, but I remember scenes. She was fluent in both English and Navajo and she moved between languages when talking to me. I remember the stacks of wordsearch puzzles she always worked on. Sometimes she’d let me help her finish a book. I remember the sound of her voice and laughter. I remember her smile every time she looked at me.
When I’m writing, it’s not just my voice telling a story. The voices of my ancestors are with me. The ritual of preparing and drinking Navajo tea acts as a bridge. It keeps me tethered to land and lineage. As I pour a hot batch of Navajo tea into a cup, the earthy aroma evokes deep-rooted memories of my great-grandmother and other elders who have passed on. I watch the mug fill with a rich red-brown, the colors of the earth that raised me. I place one hand around the mug, letting my palm and fingers savor the heat, and I know that my life keeps my ancestors and our culture alive. I take a sip and feel gratitude.
– Kirbie Bennett
SignoftheDownfall:
Time to bust out your play boats, inner tubes and pool toys – Animas River Days this weekend is a go despite less-than-optimal flows. Hey, low water is better than no water.
One of the busier and sketchier sections of the Animas River Trail is getting a userfriendly make-over. This should be welcome news for anyone who travels the gauntlet regularly or has sacrificed skin (or other body parts) to the asphalt gods there.
On May 16, local highliner Sean Englund’s company, Uncharted Lines, and Brazilian highliner Rafa Bridi broke the Americas Urban Highline distance record in Florianópolis, Brazil, crossing 605 meters (about 2,000 feet).
The President’s Trophy curse is alive and well, with the Avs succumbing to a humiliating sweep by the gold-lamé-wearing Vegas Knights. On the upside, at least we can get on with our lives now.
The child care crisis in La Plata County, where there are about 300 spots for 1,000 children under 3, is about to get worse with the closure of River Mist Preschool. Among struggles are staff shortages and high costs.
Just when you thought we were safe from the Keystone XL pipeline comes “Keystone Light.” Proposed by the same oil tycoons –who have an abysmal environmental track record – it entails sending crude from the Alberta tar sands to Wyoming, 647 miles away. What could possibly go wrong?
Red Bull-shit
Launched in 2025, Agape Energy was the first Christian energy drink, but since then, other brands like Praise Energy, Yahweh and 4GVN have risen up to help make 2026 as cringe as possible. True, most brands focus on zerosugar formulas with natural ingredients, and the cans are covered in scripture for extra holiness, but I doubt Jesus would be OK with the 200mg of caffeine per serving. And there’s no way he’d approve of the boring flavor names – like Preachin’ Peach, Revival Razz or Gospel Gummy – because they could’ve been way wittier. Jesus deserves flavors like Appleocalypse, Cross to Berry, and He is Raisin, because after all, he’s the one true pun of God.
WritersontheRange
A lasting legacy
Media maverick leaves behind a model for wildlife stewardship, land protections
by Todd Wilkinson
Before he died at age 87 in early May, Ted Turner knew that stewardship of land would be his real legacy. Of course, he might also be long known for starting CNN and 24-hour news, as well as building a major league baseball team, his hometown Atlanta Braves.
He also started a UN Foundation to help bring peace to the world, thanks to his starter $1 billion contribution, and he tapped former U.S. Sen. Tim Wirth, of Colorado, to lead it. Wirth recalls how Turner, once dubbed “Captain Outrageous,” liked to shoot from the hip and could never be bothered by whatever passed as political correctness.
A plaque on his desk in Atlanta said it all: “Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way.”
Most of all, Turner left a significant swath of private lands in better condition than he found them. In Montana and other parts of the Rockies, Turner bought huge ranches and made sure the land was healthy enough to grow a bison herd to more than 55,000 animals at its peak.
Turner never subscribed to the notion that property rights trumped the common good. He also challenged the conviction that landowners ought to be able to do whatever they want on their land – particularly if it resulted in environmental harm.
As an entrepreneur with green intentions, Turner believed he could operate his ranches better and cheaper by recovering wildlife and rivers on lands degraded by overgrazing. He was able to show that smart management could offer safe harbor to wildlife without sacrificing profit.
Some locals around Bozeman, Mont., in the 1980s thought Turner was out of his mind when he placed a conservation easement on his 113,000-acre Flying D Ranch, one of the largest easements in America at the time. The easement limited development in perpetuity. Had Turner exploited the Flying D as a real estate play,
Media mogul and conservationist Ted Turner on one of his Montana ranches. Covering 2 million acres, Turner’s ranches across Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico and South Dakota focus on ecotourism, managing bison, and hunting and fishing. / Photo by Todd
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he could easily have made hundreds of millions in profit.
Turner could make a big impact on people. One was the billionaire businessman Thomas Kaplan, who
likens Turner to a combination of John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt. Kaplan says Turner inspired him to co-found Panthera, now the leading global wildcat conservation organization, as well as The Orianne Society, named after his daughter and dedicated to saving imperiled reptiles and amphibians.
Kaplan likes to recount how, during a visit to Turner’s Flying D, he saw a wolf pack and howled back and forth with them. The ranch is home to one of the largest free-ranging wolf packs in North America. It coexists with Turner’s bison, as well as elk, deer, moose and other wild animals that move on and off the property. Turner decreed that wolves on his land were never to be hunted or lethally controlled.
Emulating the Turner model, Kaplan acquired thousands of acres in a vast wetland area of southwest Brazil called the Pantanal, where he advanced a model of co-existence between cattle ranchers and jaguars. The Pantanal is considered the best place in the world for watching jaguars, and even cattle ranchers who used to shoot the cats now have eco-lodges on their estancias.
Turner was aware of his foibles, for which he hoped he would be forgiven. Biologist Mike Phillips, who oversaw several rewilding projects for Turner, told me, “In these recent years, as he was in decline, Ted once asked me, ‘Mike, we did OK, didn’t we?’ And I replied, “‘Ted, we accomplished exactly what we set out to do so long ago.’ I reminded him that he had done more as a private citizen to benefit native species than any other individual in the history of the world.”
Phillips said that Turner choked up with emotion.
Jane Fonda, Turner’s “third and favorite wife,” according to those who knew the couple, told me that Turner found solace in nature after a brutal childhood with a hard-driving father who took his own life, along with a sister who died young from lupus.
“What did he want most of all?” asked Fonda. “To be recognized as a good guy. There was a part of Ted who believed that by trying to save nature and bring more peace to the world, he could save himself. But he saved much more than that.”
Todd Wilkinson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to spurring conversation about the West. He is a longtime journalist, the founder of Yellowstonian.org, and wrote the award-winning biography, “Last Stand: Ted Turner’s Quest to Save a Troubled Planet.” ■
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Bennet’s backscratching
Michael Bennet worked originally as a private investment advisor for arch conservative Philip Anschutz but was appointed to his first public position by then-Mayor John Hickenlooper. Gov. Ritter then appointed Bennet to the U.S. Senate in 2010, where he’s been ever since. And now? Now Bennet wants to be elected governor so that he can appoint his own successor in the Senate. Wow. That’s a lot of backscratching.
And you know who’s financing Bennet’s current governor race? Billionaire Michael Bloomberg of NYC (not Colorado). $2.5 million so far, which is why your social media is flooded with Bennet bashing his opponent Phil Weiser. By investing, Bloomberg buys TWO seats: governor and U.S. senator.
Conversely, 90% of Phil Weiser’s contributions are from individual Coloradans. He’s worked his way up through the ranks – first, clerking at the Supreme Court for Ruth Bader Ginsberg, then serving President Obama. (Not appointed, hired.) Then, as Dean of the CU Law School, Weiser started two different nonprofits to aid entrepreneurs.
And for the past eight years, he’s been a fierce, reliable attorney general for us all. He wants to bring his vision and expertise to be our governor. Please, support Phil Weiser for governor in June –because Weiser’s not the kind of guy to appoint his own successor.
– Anne Markward, Durango
Pros and cons of AI
Artificial intelligence is poised to transform the world we live in. It has the potential to make manufacturing facilities more automated, which could reduce costs. Design functions can be taken over by AI. AI can be used in accounting and financial functions and to simplify the preparation of contracts. Food service in restaurants could become highly automated.
A downside of AI is that it could be used by unscrupulous and criminal individuals to conduct illegal activities. Bad actors could provide fake information that is indistinguishable from real information. Totalitarian regimes could use AI to spy on and control their populations and attack other countries. Most terrifying is the potential devel-
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opment of lethal automated AI-controlled weapon systems that can attack targets on their own without any control by human beings. AI-controlled algorithms could take over trading on
stock markets and implement a financial crisis. Creativity of people could be compromised by AI-generated information.
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nuclear ballistic missile systems and institute nuclear war in the world? A major question is will AI be kept under control by human beings, or will it take control of us? Could mankind become subservient to AI?
– Donald Moskowitz, Londonderry, N.H.
Stop assault on our wildlife
The Trump administration is opening up 14 million acres of national forest to logging, mining, and oil and gas drilling. These are all of our national forests – our public lands, which are habitat to endangered species like grizzly bears, lynx, northern spotted owls and other wildlife that have nowhere else to go.
Please donate to the Sierra Club to help protect our forests, and contact your congressperson to oppose Trump’s actions, which are an assault on our wildlife, the Endangered Species Act and our public lands.
– Margaret-Ann Mayer, SW CO Sierra Club
A different World Cup victory
Who would imagine that an international sporting event would be the next battleground in the fight against authoritarian repression?
Yet that scenario is unfolding right now, and the battleground is the World Cup – soon to begin in cities around the U.S. To understand the situation, consider the concept of state terror, i.e. a regime’s efforts to instill fear as a means of dividing and disempowering people, thereby tightening its grip on power.
In the past year and a half, the Trump administration has deployed ICE as an instrument of terror. In
L.A., Chicago, Minneapolis and other cities, ICE agents have engaged in unlawful traffic stops and racial profiling, carried out warrantless raids and inflicted excessive and lethal force. ICE’s detention centers have been characterized by cruelty, violence and degrading conditions. At least 46 people have died in ICE custody since Donald Trump took office last year.
Markwayne Mullin, secretary Homeland Security, made clear that ICE will be present at World Cup venues, including SoFi Stadium near my home in Los Angeles. Mullin ruled out broad immigration sweeps but not individual apprehensions. At the same time, FIFA –international soccer’s governing body – has required stadium workers to disclose sensitive information (social security numbers, residential addresses, nationality and country of birth) and shared that information with federal authorities.
Some say workers, vendors and visitors have nothing to fear if they’re here legally. But the argument denies the toxic power of racialized scapegoating that Donald Trump has ratcheted up over the past 11 years. From the time he announced his candidacy in 2015, when he declared that Mexico was sending us rapists, drugs and crime, he has made pronouncements about “shithole countries,” that unauthorized immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of Americans and about immigrants stealing and consuming pets – to name a few of the lies. Such baseless claims have made many Americans more fearful of immigrants, and – along with rogue immigration enforcement – have frightened many migrants into the shadows.
Answering the lies requires an expansive bearing of witness: about the cruelty and waste of our present im-
migration enforcement – and about the insatiable need of authoritarians to scapegoat, instill fear and divide. If a person has lived in, and peacefully contributed to, a community for many years – his or her lack of documentation says much more about the failure of the broader polity than it does about the individual. It speaks to the failure to recognize the economic and cultural contributions that immigrants bring to this nation. It declares the failure to set down pathways to citizenship that will liberate even greater contributions.
But bearing witness in and of itself is not enough. As Minnesotans made clear when they forced ICE and CBP to retreat, people power is needed – along with solidarity, organization and nonviolent discipline.
Solidarity and discipline are needed now at the World Cup games. In L.A., there are about 2,000 unionized workers at SoFi Stadium, and they’ve begun to take action through their union. They’ve filed a complaint with California’s Attorney General, citing an intrusion of their privacy and the violation of their rights. They’ve also threatened to strike unless demands are met, including assurances that ICE will have no place at the games.
As in Minneapolis, the workers deserve the support of the broader community, a support grounded in an awareness of what’s at stake for them, the community and for the nation. A number of community groups, including faith-based organizations, have already stepped up in support and solidarity.
Were ICE to be forced into retreat, that would indeed be a World Cup victory deserved by all. – Andrew Moss, syndicated by PeaceVoice, Emeritus Professor California State University
Quick’n’Dirty
Highway 550N closed June 2 for chip-seal
In addition to work on the Animas River Trail, travelers heading north on Highway 550 will also experience delays next week.
Four-day chip seal operations will be taking place between Molas and Red Mountain Pass June 1-4, with a full closure of the highway from Molas Pass to Silverton on Mon., June 1, from 7 a.m.2 p.m. After this, the road will transition to one-way alternating traffic for the next three days, and motorists should expect up to 15-minute delays.
Working hours will be 6:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday-Thursday and there will be a speed reduction of 40 MPH through the work zone.
Bridge replacement, ART upgrades begin
A section of the Animas River Trail notorious for many a late-night bike crash among other calamities will be getting a facelift starting next week.
Starting Mon., June 1, the City of Durango will be begin work on the trail behind Durango High School, between Rank and Memorial parks. Upgrades include replacing the trail’s failing asphalt surface with a new 10-foot-wide concrete path and adding new lighting and landscape features. Improvements will also be made to the spur trail connecting the ART to Rio Vista Circle.
Additionally, the Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad will be replacing the tracks on the east side of Demon Bridge on Tues., June 2, from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
The project, which is being overseen by the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, will eventually include replacing the Demon Bridge. The new bridge will
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be wider than the current one, with smoother abutments, and the height will meet waterway freeboard requirements (we’re not exactly sure what this means but assume it has something to do with raft and SUP clearance).
The project is funded through the voter-approved 2015 half-cent sales tax and is expected to continue into 2027.
Temporary detours will be necessary during portions of the construction, and routes may shift periodically depending on construction activities. Trailer users should note that some detours may involve longer travel times. For construction and detour updates, go to the City’s Engage Page at: engage.durangoco.gov/ animas-river-trail-improvements
USFS fire mitigation decreased in 2025
A new analysis by the Center for Western Priorities finds that the U.S. Forest Service treated roughly 35% fewer acres for hazardous fuels in 2025 than in 2024, a sharp decline that may leave communities across the West more exposed to the risk of catastrophic wildfire.
Hazardous fuels treatments – including prescribed burns, mechanical thinning and brush clearing – are known to significantly moderate the intensity and severity of wildfires by reducing the amount of vegetation available. According to CWP’s analysis of publicly available USFS data, the Forest Service treated approximately 2.6 million acres for hazardous fuels in cal-
endar year 2025, compared with roughly 4.1 million acres in 2024.
CWP Executive Director Aaron Weiss said the decrease does not bode well for fire-prone communities heading into the fire season. “Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Undersecretary Michael Boren had two critical responsibilities heading into fire season: take care of America's forests, and help build fire-resilient communities,” Weiss said in a statement. “Instead, they cut treatment acres by more than a third in a single year, leaving fuel on the ground from Montana to Florida heading into a drought-fueled fire season.”
Making things worse, Weiss said, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has gutted the firefighting workforce and ordered fire crews back to a failed full-suppression policy. “The policy is what got us into this mess. Doubling down on it, while the Forest Service falls a million and a half acres behind on the prevention work that keeps communities safe, is a recipe for disaster this year,” he said.
While it is too early to make definitive statements about fuel treatments in 2026, early data suggest that 2026 is also tracking far behind the historical average.
The analysis found severe declines in many of the states at greatest wildfire risk. Montana, which faces persistent high wildfire risk, treated just 87,845 acres in 2025 – down 63% from 2024. Oregon, which led the nation in acres treated in 2024, completed hazardous fuels work on 228,411 acres in 2025, down 47% from the year before. And in California, which has experienced devastating wildfire seasons in recent years, 205,358 acres were treated in 2025, down 40% from 2024.
The CWP, in partnership with Redstone GIS Consulting, analyzed publicly available data from the USFS’s Natural Resource Manager Forest Activity Tracking System. – Missy Votel
Bridge as well as its precarious on/off ramp will be getting some much-needed improvements starting next week. Work is expected to continue until 2027./Photo courtesy City of Durango
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Survival of the craftiest
Colorado’s brewers buck national trend as they find ways to adapt to changing times
by Haylee May / Colorado Public Radio
Colorado’s craft beer industry may finally be finding firmer footing after years of contraction. But experts say the recovery is a far cry from the boom days that once made the state an industry leader.
“What it looks like to run a successful brewery in 2026 is very different than what it was like in 2016 in terms of operational costs, of being strategic about distribution, of offering more experiences,” Matt Gacioch, staff economist at the Boulder-based Brewer’s Association, said last week.
New data from the national group shows Colorado craft brewers increased production by nearly 10% in 2025, outperforming a national industry slowdown where brewers overall saw a 5.7% decrease.
“A big piece of the volume can be attributed to some really explosive growth by Tivoli’s Outlaw brand, which is brewed in Colorado but is distributed throughout the country,” Gacioch said.
In Colorado, brewers large and small produced 75,369 more barrels last year than in 2024. The industry’s statewide economic impact also rose to an estimated $2.5 billion, up by roughly $28 million overall.
However, even as breweries like Tivoli produced more beer and boosted their statewide economic impact, the state still saw a net loss of 33 breweries.
Gacioch says that loss is comparable to losses suffered by the restaurant industry, which often sees closures as neighborhood demographics change. “A lot of these (closures) are in a hyper-local context. If the economics of operating in those particular neighborhoods is no longer where it was five to 10 years ago, those are a lot of the breweries that we’re seeing close,” he said.
Many of the breweries that closed in 2025 were smaller, neighborhood-focused operations facing rising rents, higher labor costs and thinner margins than they saw a decade ago.
For many brewers, survival now depends less on growth and more on reinvention.
“They’re bringing people in with something more than just the world-class beer. Maybe it’s a more builtout food menu or programming that appeals to certain types of consumers,” Gacioch said. “I think the breweries that have been able to weather the storm are the ones that are adapting, and that puts them in a better position financially.”
Part of that shift is a move toward an “onsite model,” where breweries rely less on distributing beer widely. Instead, they are focusing on drawing more customers into taprooms, places without food, and brewpubs, places with food.
“The taprooms and brewpubs have also had a strong year relative to other states in 2025. Colorado Brew pubs saw a 7% increase in production volume, and taprooms were essentially flat, so still five percentage points better than the national average,” Gacioch said. Those spaces
increasingly double as community hubs, hosting trivia nights, live music, run clubs and family-friendly events, giving customers a reason to stay longer and spend more.
At the same time, larger or more established brands are better positioned to scale production, expand distribution and weather economic swings, a dynamic that’s slowly reshaping the industry.
“Colorado is definitely one of those pockets where there is more consolidation happening,” said Gacioch.
For example, last year Wilding Brands, a beverage group formed through mergers involving Denver Beer Co., Stem Ciders and Funkwerks, acquired Denver’s Great Divide Brewing, combining production and distribution operations under one umbrella.
“I would expect that what we’re seeing happen in Colorado will continue to ripple out, and we’ll see more of that over the couple years,” Gacioch said.
Younger drinkers are also consuming alcohol differently, often drinking less or opting for alternatives like non-alcoholic or cannabis-infused beverages.
“Some of the rates of drinking among Gen Z might have decreased. We’re still trying to figure out how much of that is impacted by the fact that many came into adulthood during the pandemic and didn’t have the same kind of social experiences outside of the home that many of the earlier generations had,” said Gacioch. “Gen Z is also mostly in their twenties right now, and they’re the generation that has some of the least buyer power.”
New financial pressures could also test the progress
A flight of beer at the Colorado Farm Brewery in Alamosa on March 7. New data from the Boulder-based Brewer’s Association shows Colorado craft brewers increased production by nearly 10% in 2025, outperforming a national industry slowdown where brewers saw a 5.7% decrease./ Photo by Hayley Sanchez/CPR News
made by Colorado brewers last year and in early 2026.
Tariffs on aluminum, a key material for beer cans, continue to push up costs, with some brewers only beginning to feel the full impact as supply contracts expire.
“2026 is probably going to be the year where it starts being felt more acutely because many brewers have contracts into the future, and a lot of the tariff costs get built in when those contracts come up for renewal,” said Gacioch. “There’s more competition in the beverage alcohol space than ever before. To have the tariffs on top of it, it’s just one more factor that makes running a successful brewery that much harder.”
Even with the challenges, Colorado remains one of the country’s most influential craft beer states, home to a deeply rooted brewing culture and a strong base of independent producers.
“Colorado has, from the beginning of craft beer, been one of the hotspots, and I think for great reason, it fits really well into the lifestyle of Coloradans,” Gacioch said.
The industry may be more competitive than it once was, but it’s also becoming more focused and, in some cases, more resilient.
“I think what we’re seeing in craft beer consolidation — what we’re seeing in something like Outlaw, that is a really strong solo brand — I think these are some of the directions that we might see the craft industry move in future years,” he said. “I suppose in that regard, Colorado continues to be a leader in craft beer.”
For more from Colorado Public Radio, go to www.cpr.org. ■
TheLandDesk
Croaking at Bullfrog
Once-bustling marina confronts sandstorms, empty boat ramp and uncertain future
by Jonathan P. Thompson
Maybe sitting next to the wall of plate glass windows was not the smartest move, I thought, as a sienna-colored cloud of sand lifted up from the lakeside and made its way in my direction. I had just tucked into my $16 grilled chicken sandwich at the Anasazi Restaurant at Bullfrog Marina on Lake Powell when the wind kicked up, sandblasting the windows and causing a sizable milk crate to slide back and forth along the railings of the patio outside. It was an eerie scene. Had this been an apocalyptic cli-fi film set in a calamitously aridified West, this would have been the moment when a pterodactyllike creature smashed through the window and plopped down all bloody and sandy in my plate of fries, an omen of
the horrors to come.
It was not, however, a film. The dystopian scene was as real as was the aridification, though it did not include any prehistoric creatures – only a handful of staff and other diners who, much to my dismay, seemed utterly unperturbed by the sandstorm and the havoc it was wreaking on a set of outdoor furniture. Outside, a few ravens seemed delighted to frolic in the gusts’ updrafts. When we think of climate change’s effects, we might imagine communities inundated by rising seas, unhoused folks exposed to ever more severe heat waves or entire towns wiped out by megafires. I was here at Bullfrog to see how a warmer and drier climate is affecting the communities, infrastructure and economies that rose up around and depend upon Lake Powell-based recreation.
Bullfrog is the largest and most extensive marina on Lake Powell’s northern end. It has a 48-room hotel, the aforementioned restaurant, a gas station and convenience store, an RV park, and other lodging, along with its own school, which this year had four students in grades K-6. The population of some 50 to 100 consists mostly of employees of the National Park Service and Aramark, the private concessionaire that runs the reservoir’s marinas and other facilities. Nearby Ticaboo, which lies outside Glen Canyon National Recreation Area but also relies on Lake Powell recreation, has another 50 to 100 residents. The nearest incorporated town is Hanksville, some 67 miles to the north.
Bullfrog lies at the end of the road on a bay at the mouth of Bullfrog Creek, where the water is shallower than on
the main channel of the Colorado River, making the marina and its facilities more vulnerable to dropping water levels. While the main boat ramp is still being used, it will likely become unusable later this summer as the reservoir’s surface levels falls toward 3,500 feet. In coming weeks, the entire floating marina will be towed across the reservoir to deeper water adjacent to Halls Crossing Marina; Bullfrog’s fuel and boat rental docks have already been moved. The ferry between Bullfrog and Halls Crossing isn’t functional at low water levels, so is expected to be out of commission for the rest of this year, making for a 145-mile car trip between the facilities at Bullfrog and the boat ramps and marina at Halls Crossing.
I visited Bullfrog on a Sunday in midMay. Because I needed to do some inter-
A mini sandstorm partially obscures the Bullfrog Marina on Lake Powell. Dropping reservoir levels are forcing officials to move the marina to a deeper part of the lake./ Jonathan P. Thompson photo
net-related work, I stayed in the hotel. I initially regretted not staying in the campground, since it was mostly empty and had a strong cell phone signal, but when the tent-shredding winds and skin-blasting sands kicked up, I was happy to be ensconced in more secure lodging, especially given the relatively reasonable price.
It was high tourist season elsewhere in canyon country. The trailhead parking lots at Capitol Reef National Park were all full or overflowing that morning as I drove through, and Torrey had been busy during my stay there for a writing conference. As I slowly made my way down the Notom Road and Burr Trail, stopping frequently to gaze at the curves and crevices in the Waterpocket Fold and for a quick bike ride, I saw maybe a half-dozen other vehicles.
Bullfrog, meanwhile, was decidedly quiet. The hotel was nearly empty. Only a few sites in the RV park were occupied, and I later saw that most of the sites were out of order and closed. A couple of dozen cars, at the very most, were parked on the only operable boat ramp. The shelves on the little convenience store were sparsely stocked, and a box of Triscuits was going for $7.50 – though there was no cheese to accompany them – and gas was selling for $5.17. In May of 2000, the Bullfrog District received 33,000 visits, according to National Park Service statistics; in May 2025 only 10,886 visitors passed through the entrance gate. Current numbers aren’t yet available, but I imagine this year’s
to build a new, deeper-water boat launch at Stanton Creek, a couple of miles from central Bullfrog, where the marina can be moved permanently. The project is expected to cost some $73 million and won’t be completed this year. It’s a type of climate adaptation, I suppose, though one can’t help but
visitation will be far lower. And once the boat ramp ceases to function, I imagine the numbers will plummet further. The National Park Service is planning
wonder how long the fix will last if the reservoir’s levels keep dropping. Meanwhile, Bullfrog’s future is in doubt. A series of especially snowy
winters in the high country might be enough to bring Bullfrog back from the edge of obsolescence. Maybe they won’t even need the Stanton Creek site. On the other hand, just one more belowaverage snowpack year could doom Lake Powell altogether. If Colorado River flows don’t increase substantially in the next year or two, the Bureau of Reclamation will have little choice but to build tunnels to bypass Glen Canyon Dam and effectively drain the reservoir in order to keep water running into the Grand Canyon and Lake Mead.
The question then would be whether Bullfrog could (or would even want to) adapt to a different sort of tourism.
The place might try to cater to hikers and small-watercraft users looking to check out newly revealed parts of Glen Canyon that have been inundated for the last several decades. And it could lure travelers exploring the greater region’s backcountry, though it’s not clear that type of visitor is going to be interested in the type of accommodations and services Bullfrog currently offers. Maybe it will just become a destination for disaster-tourist voyeurs looking to see the effects of climate change in realtime. Or, perhaps Bullfrog will become another Hite Marina, which the shrinking reservoir has left high and dry, its boat ramp separated from the lake by some 6 miles, the store and campground permanently shuttered and gated off.
The last time I visited Bullfrog was in the late 1980s. My dad, my brother and I camped at Halls Crossing, then woke up and rode the ferry across the lake. From there, we made an epic loop around and over the Henry Mountains along the then-unimproved Burr Trail and another gnarly road in our 1967 Pontiac Catalina. It took at least eight hours and involved some extensive road-building to keep the boat-like vehicle from bottoming out. Anyway, I remember Bullfrog as being a bustling resort with a sort of spring break party vibe, relative to the more bare-bones Halls Crossing. Of course, those were the glory days for Lake Powell, when the reservoir was full, and at the end of a bone-jarring drive across the desert one could stop at the Hite Marina for refreshments.
That night I listened to the sand batter the sliding glass door of my hotel room. The next morning, the reservoir’s placid waters reflected dawn’s first light, and the distant sandstone dunes seemed to glow from within. And to the north, a fresh coating of snow covered the craggy slopes of the Henry Mountains, promising a little bit of relief from these dry and trying times.
The Land Desk is a newsletter from Jonathan P. Thompson, author of “River of Lost Souls,” “Behind the Slickrock Curtain” and “Sagebrush Empire.” To subscribe, go to: www.landdesk.org ■
Bullfrog Creek along the southern end of the Burr Trail and Bullfrog Bay on Lake Powell in the distance./ Jonathan P. Thompson photo
Hite Marina and boat ramp on what once was the northern end of Lake Powell./ Jonathan P. Thompson photo
Stuff to Do
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Commissioner Chat with Elizabeth Philbrick, 4-6 p.m., Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Dr.
May Book Club “The Golden Shadow Method,” 5 p.m., The Gather Room, 723 E. 2nd Ave.
Durango Green Drinks hosts American Rivers, SJMA and Winter Wildlands Alliance, 5-7 p.m., 11th St. Station, 1101 Main Ave.
Tyler Simms plays Ska-B-Q, 5-7 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St.
Animas River Days Kickoff Party, 5-8 p.m., 2nd Deli & Spirits, 601 E. 2nd Ave.
“Outdoor First Aid,” presented by Durango Open Space Ranger Tosh Black, 5:30-6:45 p.m., Durango Rec Center, 2700 Main Ave.
Durango Open Mic, 5:30-8 p.m., The Subterrain, 900 Main Ave., Ste. F
Dart Tournament, 5:30-9 p.m., Union Social House, 3062 Main Ave.
Author Talk with Dr. Wendy Johnson, “Kinship Medicine,” 6 p.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave.
Jeff Solon Jazz plays, 6 p.m., Lola’s Place, 725 E. 2nd Ave.
Folkadelic with Pete Giuliani and Ross Douglas, 6-9 p.m., Durango Hot Springs, 6475 CR 203
Rob Webster plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Adam Swanson plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Bluegrass Jam, 6-9 p.m., Durango Beer and Ice Co., 3000 Main Ave.
The Vanbuskirks play, 6-9 p.m., 11th St. Station, 1101 Main Ave.
Powerhouse Trivia Night, 6:30-8:30 p.m., The Powerhouse, 1333 Camino Del Rio
Stand Up Comedy, 7-8:30 p.m., Black Heron Lounge, 736 Main Ave.
Open Mic Night, 7-10 p.m., American Legion, 878 E. 2nd Ave.
Rise & Vibe Festival, 9 a.m., Tico Time Resort, Aztec
Chapman Chats with Parks & Recreation, 910 a.m., Chapman Hill Rink
Office Hours with County Commissioner Marsha Porter-Norton, 3:30-5 p.m., Dancing Spirit Center for the Arts, 465 Goddard Ave., Ignacio
Animas River Days free clinics with Jackson Kayaks, 2-6:30 p.m., Santa Rita Park
Pete Giuliani plays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Baron’s Creek Vineyard, 901 Main Ave.
Adam Swanson plays, 5:30-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Ross Douglas plays, 6-8 p.m, Lola’s Place 725 E. 2nd Ave.
Tyller Gummersall plays Friday Nights at Fox Fire, 6-9 p.m., Fox Fire Farms Winery, 5513 CR 321, Ignacio
Disco Roller Skating, all ages, 6-8 p.m., Chapman Hill Rink
Dustin Burley plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Tyler Simmons plays, 7-9 p.m., 11th St. Station, 1101 Main Ave.
10-Minute Play Festival, 7-9:30 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
Bean Minor Quintet plays, 8:30-10:30 p.m., The Subterrain, 900 Main Ave., Ste. F
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Marvel Grange Community Breakfast, 8-10 a.m., 217 CR 133 A
Durango Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-12 noon, TBK Parking Lot, 259 W. 9th St.
Animas River Days, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Santa Rita Whitewater Park
Durango Friends of the Arts Garage Sale, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Animas Valley Grange, 7271 CR 203
Disco Roller Skating, all ages, 6-8 p.m., Chapman Hill Rink
The Pete Giuliani Band plays, 6-9 p.m., Weminuche Woodfire Grill, 18044 CR 501, Vallecito
Adam Swanson Ragtime plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Matt Rupnow plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Karaoke with Kimmy, 6-9 p.m., Durango Beer and Ice Co., 3000 Main Ave.
Ben Gibson plays, 6-9 p.m., 11th St. Station, 1101 Main Ave.
Durango Barbershoppers present “Colorado, My Home” 7 p.m., Durango High School
10-Minute Play Festival, 7-9:30 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
Durango Contra Dance, 7:30 p.m., La Plata Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.
Sunday31
Durango Flea Market, 7 a.m.-3 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds
Animas River Days, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Santa Rita Whitewater Park
Rise & Vibe Festival, 9 a.m., Tico Time Resort, Aztec
Veterans Benefit Breakfast, 9-11 a.m., VFW Post 4031, 1550 Main Ave.
Sunday Record Brunch Club, 12 noon-3 p.m., 11th St. Station, 1101 Main Ave.
Irish Jam, 12 noon-3 p.m., Durango Beer and Ice Co., 3000 Main Ave.
10-Minute Play Festival, 5-7:30 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
Ben Gibson plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Blue Moon Ramblers play, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
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Friday29
Veterans Friday Coffee, 8-10:30 a.m., American Legion, 878 E. 2nd Ave.
North Main District Clean Day & BBQ, 8:30 a.m., meet at La Plata County Fairgrounds
Rise & Vibe Festival, 9 a.m., Tico Time Resort, Aztec
Ben Gibson plays, 12 noon-3 p.m., 11th St. Station, 1101 Main Ave.
Wiebeck and Leavitt play, 5-8 p.m., Serious Texas BBQ South, 650 S Camino del Rio
Happy Hour Yoga, 5:30 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St.
Terry Rickard plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Adam Swanson plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
AskRachel Paint jobs, paperwork and boxed-up problems
Interesting fact: The average cost to start a business ranges from $3,000 - $500,000, depending on industry and business model. I recommend starting with a lemonade stand.
Dear Rachel,
Our summer project is repainting the house. Or, having it repainted – we’re not that youthful anymore. My husband is insistent that anyone we hire be licensed, bonded and insured. I just want it applied without drips. Do you think I’m being too laissez faire? Or is he being too by-the-book?
– Spruced Up
Dear Fresh Coat, I semi-glossed over the details of home maintenance class in high school. Oh wait, we didn’t get that class in high school. We should have; it would have helped me argue with landlords way better than my French class in which I didn’t actually learn any French. I think it doesn’t ultimately matter who you hire to slap some Sherwin Williams on your walls. You’re just painting over your problems. Skimp on the painter and invest in a different kind of professional to get to the undercoat of what really matters. – Pantone perfect, Rachel
Tuesday02
Cowboy Tuesdays, 12 noon-3 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Starry Starry Night plays Locals Night, 5-9 p.m., LePlatt’s Pond, 311A CR 501, Bayfield
Durango Real Estate Meetup, 5:30 p.m., Union Social House, 3062 Main Ave.
Twin Buttes Tuesday, weekly group mountain bike ride, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Twin Buttes Trailhead parking lot
Rotary Club of Durango, senior wealth advisor Rachel Kuss discusses estate planning, 6-7 p.m., Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave.
Tuesday Trivia, 6-8:30 p.m., 11th St. Station, 1101 Main Ave.
Adam Swanson plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Sean O’Brien plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
Adult Disco Roller Skating, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Chapman Hill Roller Rink, 500 Florida Rd.
Man2Man Prostate Cancer Support Group of Durango, 7-8 p.m., via Zoom, prostategroupdurango @gmail.com to register
Dear Rachel, No one ever told me that all the paperwork for starting a new business was so expensive, from filing LLCs to business licenses to trademarks to all kinds of junk. I expected to spend money on stuff to sell but not to go so far in the hole on other people bleeding me dry. What the crap? How does anyone start a business without already being wealthy?
– In the Red
Dear In the Hole, You wanna know how they do it? Under the table, my dude. You pretend you didn’t know about all those pesky rules and regulations, and you take cash, and you wait for a city enforcement officer to come knock on your door, at which point you run out the back with your bag of cash and start over again in a new city, like Bayfield. At least that’s how my uncle did it. We haven’t heard from him in 20 years, though, so think carefully. Entrepreneurship is not right for everyone.
– On the Lam, Rachel
Dear Rachel,
I thought new shelving would change my life. Like my home and soul would transform from mismatched stacks of cardboard boxes
Wednesday03
Safety Meeting plays Community Concert Series supporting 4CORE, 5:30-8 p.m., The Powerhouse, 1333 Camino del Rio
Word Honey Poetry Workshop, 6-7:30 p.m., The Hive, 1175 Camino del Rio
Comedy Open Mic, 6-8 p.m., American Legion, 878 E. 2nd Ave.
Adam Swanson plays, 6-9 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.
Devin Scott plays, 6-9 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.
True Western Roundup Junior Rodeo, 6:30-9 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds
Blazin Boots Line Dancing, 6:30-9 p.m., Rooftop Lounge at River’s Edge, 1521 Main Ave.
“American Mavericks” lecture/concert, presented by San Juan Symphony, 7 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 910 E. 3rd Ave.
Ongoing
Dementia/Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group, 1st, 3rd & 5th Wednesday of each month, 10:30 a.m.-12 noon, La Plata Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.
to well-stored rows of mismatched cardboard boxes. It turns out I can’t fit all my problems on a shelf, and I’m still the same jumbled wreck inside. What should I try next?
– Top Shelf Problems
Dear High-Grade Storage,
If I could afford to hire someone to clean my house, I’d presumably be less internally cluttered, and wouldn’t have to read deep emotional struggles into everyone else’s superficial complaints. Until we’re rich, though, I think we have to keep boxing up our problems. And then maybe paint over the boxes. Because why not?
– Taped shut, Rachel
4 Common Corners Art Quilt Exhibit, thru June 27, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.
“Sound of Paint: Where Paintings Sing and Music Listens,” augmented-reality exhibition by Tad Smith, June 5- July, The Light Box at Stillwater Music, 1316 Main Ave., Ste. C
Upcoming
Durango Corgi Crawl, Thurs., June 4, 5-7 p.m., Buckley Park
“Proper Backpacking Equipment for the Outdoors,” presented by Durango Open Space Ranger Tosh Black, Thurs., June 4, 5:30-6:45 p.m., Durango Rec Center, 2700 Main Ave.
Latin Dance Night with Brent Lilley and DJ Pumami, Thurs., June 4, 6:30-9 p.m., Rooftop Lounge at River’s Edge, 1521 Main Ave.
Gangha Fest, June 4-7, Tico Time Resort, Aztec
“Sound of Paint: Where Paintings Sing and Music Listens,” augmented-reality exhibition by Tad Smith, opening reception, June 5, 6-8 p.m., The Light Box at Stillwater Music, 1316 Main Ave., Ste. C
Three Way Street plays, June 5, 6-9 p.m., Union Social House, 3062 Main Ave.
Yes, No, Maybe plays Dolores River Fest, Sat., June 6, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Joe Rowell Park, 101 Railroad Ave.,
FreeWillAstrology
by Rob Brezsny
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the weeks ahead, simply being right won’t necessarily lead to success. Having strength, intelligence, wealth, or connections might help, though not as much as usual. But a different approach will work well as you strive to overcome challenges: a blend of cleverness and integrity. I invite you to be cunning while remaining honorable. Practice subtle strategy in service of higher aims. And here’s one more secret to ensure victory: Let go of any need to receive full recognition for your efforts.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Dear Horoscope Guy: Two astrologers have assured me that as a Taurus, I’m a natural-born money magnet. So why am I broke? I keep begging the Divine for cash miracles, and I buy lottery tickets twice a week. Still nothing! Please tell me when I’ll finally hit the jackpot. Better yet, give me the winning numbers. – Taurus Desperate for Dollars.” Dear Desperate: The “luck” you crave will arrive as you pour yourself into building your sweetest dreams, spurning shortcuts and enjoying yourself as much as possible. The Divine prefers to fund eager co-creators, not wishful thinkers. I predict that a slow-motion jackpot will ultimately arrive through your devoted attention.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Among the Dogon of Mali, Sigui so is a secret language. It’s used in a sacred ritual when people gather to retell their beginnings and patch up strains in tribal harmony. I’m borrowing “Sigui so” as a symbol that I hope you will specialize in during the coming weeks: language that eases tensions, soothes friction and fosters unity. Start like this: Unleash your trademark wit but spike it with sly blessings and tactful probes. Wield your fluency to burn away confusion and uncover feelings. If you’re in an extrabold mood, give everyone tacit permission to be their idiosyncratic selves instead of their polished personas.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): What’s the holiest, most healing trouble you could rustle up right now? Maybe it’s a buoyant disruption, like telling wild truths you usually tend to soften. Or maybe it’s asking for what your future self pines for instead of what your past self regards as polite and reasonable. As a Cancerian soul myself, I dare both you and me to give ourselves permission to rumble. Let’s be brazen as we instigate creative upheavals in service to our cheerful vigor. Let’s instigate at least one concrete action that will rattle the stagnant pattern just enough to make life more interesting.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Sea otters are a keystone species. Their presence is essential to the health of their entire ecosystem. As they eat sea urchins, the kelp forests flourish. Without otters, the urchins overgraze, and kelp forests may collapse, which in turn affects hundreds of other species. One creature’s appetite helps regulate an entire undersea neighborhood. I suspect you’re serving a similar function, Leo. You’re having more impact and wielding more influence than you realize. No pressure! But please act accordingly: with maximum integrity and robust responsibility.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A Dutch woman who died left her grand-nephew an inheritance of 220,000 euros. The only problem is that he’s homeless and constantly on the move, so the executors haven’t been able to find him. This echoes a recurring pattern in your life. Even now, sources of blessings are searching for ways to reach you, but you are slow to notice their approach or to magnetize yourself to their arrival. My prayer: May you figure out what needs to be done to make yourself fully available for these gifts – and then ingrain that capacity in your habit mind.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Visualize your fears. Consider how few of them rest on a genuine likelihood that the scary events could ever take place. Then ask yourself how much of your uneasiness springs from vivid fantasies or from a practiced tendency to fret. You might also ruminate on how you absorb the background worry that’s amplified by mass culture. After reflecting on all that, I invite you to take one concrete action to lower the level of tension you have come to treat as normal. Take another action to weaken the grip of your deepest dread. The current planetary patterns suggest you now have the bold, creative power necessary to shrink your baseline anxiety.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Even more than usual, you have a sacred duty to celebrate your poignant sweetness and dark intelligence. For the sake of your emotional health, you should pay wild reverence to your deepest, most mysterious yearnings. To be the person we all you need you to be, you must tenderly nurture the parts of your inner world that resemble the aurora borealis. I want to support you in these sublime sacraments, which is why I suggest you memorize the following prayer by Rainer Maria Rilke: “Be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.”
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Linguists use the term “false friends.” These are words in different languages that seem similar but don’t have the same meaning. For example, the Spanish word embarazada resembles “embarrassed” to English speakers but actually means “pregnant.” I suspect you’re dealing with another type of false friend, Sagittarius: people or situations that turned out to be at variance with what you initially imagined. But rather than feeling unsettled by these revelations, I suggest you treat them as a prod to see with fresh eyes. Your disorientation could be the beginning of more interesting understandings.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): An ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is a code assigned to a book for commercial and cataloging purposes. It contains key information and includes a built-in error-detection notation. If you transpose two numbers when entering an ISBN, the last digit will tell you something’s wrong. I heartily recommend that you build more mistake detection into your life. Invest in extra safeguards. Add verification steps. Build in doublechecks. The goal is to create systems robust enough to survive oversights and gaffes. Give yourself safety nets that will empower you to take smart risks.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may not yet grasp how richly creative you are right now, nor how much more abundant your generative powers could become. So it’s auspicious that you are reading this horoscope now. Consider this your advance notice: Your capacity to originate ideas, projects, and connections is surging, and it’s crucial to choose with care which possibilities you nurture and which you decline. If you are selective and intentional about what you sow, then about six months from now, you will be far more likely to gather lush, beautiful harvests instead of wrestling with overgrown, unruly tangles.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Ethnobotanist Wade Davis documented how different cultures perceive entirely different realities despite inhabiting the same physical world. It means that two people can stand in the same forest and see different forests through their cultural lens and personal mythology. This is simultaneously the problem and the opportunity you face, Pisces. You and others in your orbit are inhabiting divergent realities that superficially seem the same. If you hope to reconcile the differences, you must first acknowledge them as real. You’re dealing with fundamentally different ways of constructing meaning, not just small misunderstandings.
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Check out the Chapman Hill Rink schedule. We have added adult skating on Tuesday nights 6:30-8:30pm and DJ parties one Saturday each month 8:15-10 pm. Durango Roller skaters will be there to help you get rolling! Todd 970-799-013
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CommunityService
Dog Fosters Needed
Parker’s Animas Rescue urgently needs foster families to provide temporary homes for rescued dogs. We supply all necessary items, including crates, food, leashes, toys and behavioral support, and
cover veterinary visits. You provide the love and guidance. Our support includes volunteer dog walkers to assist with care. Join our mission to help these pups flourish and prepare for their forever homes. Apply to become a foster today by visiting: parkersanimalresuce.com.
Men's Cancer Networking Group
Southwest Colorado Men’s Cancer Advocacy group to inspire men to stay connected and avoid isolation during their cancer journey. Open to all Cancer Warriors and their caregivers. If interested in
‘We Bury the Dead’ Can we all agree that the zombie genre needs a shot to the brain?
joining, email Phil Campbell at Cancer Support Community Southwest Colorado at hope@cancersupportswco.org or call 970-403-3711.
