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Trend-watchers argue that the 70s have come back in the 90s, and sure enough, an artifact of that era has returned: Colorful Colorado Magazine, published by the same Merrill Hastings, Jr., who put it out the first time around.
Like its earlier incarnation, the revived
These sleek orographic landscapes resemble the women of
Granted, there's nothing wrong with looking at pretty pictures. But taken as a whole, the magazine practices hypocrisy.
Long ago, Hastings deserved congratulations for his campaign against poisoning on federal land. He's at it again.
But if Hastings indeed cares so much about the welfare
of wildlife, why is his magazine promoting Colorado's
Hidden Wildlands
? The more folks who visit these
uncrowded gems,
the more vexations for wild
creatures with the misfortune to dwell in the terrain of
the Colorado Backcountry Guide
and Mountain
Biking on the Backcountry.
If it's evil for ranchers to kill eagles, bears, and
lions, then isn't it just as wicked for developers to
destroy wildlife habitat at Lake Catamount, Basalt Mountain
Ranch, and Beaver Creek, all promoted within the covers of
I'm no fan of poison on public lands (or private lands,
for that matter) either, but what's the point of protecting
wildlife from Compound 1080 and strychnine, only to have
the critters vanish on account of the upscale real-estate
developments advertised in
Such thoughtfulness doesn't extend to the editing,
however. You'd find more truth in a campaign speech than in
this, about the D&RG Railroad: engineering feats
like the now-abandoned Alpine tunnel over Colorado's
Collegiate range...
Shall we count the errors? The Alpine Tunnel wasn't
built by or for the D&RG, but the Union Pacific. There
is no Collegiate range.
It's the Sawatch Range which
has some Collegiate peaks, none of them by the tunnel at
Altman Pass. A tunnel doesn't go over
a range, but
through it.
Similar lapses pop up throughout
promoting the conspicuous
consumption of the Colorado concept.
You'll never appreciate wilderness unless you buy a John
Fielder Playplace of the Month calendar, your soles will
grow weary unless you wear Kinney Colorado-brand footwear,
and you'll never experience the True West unless you visit
a
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