On October 21, 2020, I watched the most important thing in my life burn to the ground — via a live internet stream. The Troublesome Fire — the second largest fire in Colorado history — took my family ranch, the Bar DM, at the headwaters of the Colorado River. I cannot even calculate the value of what was lost: fifty years of family history, the 200,000 acres of forest surrounding our ranch, the herds of elk and moose I had grown up with that inhabit Rocky Mountain National Park. But most devastatingly, the fire took the lives of my second […]
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