"Peakbagging" is the obsessive quest to "bag," or summit, high mountains. In Colorado, the highest mountains are the so-called "fourteeners," 54 peaks topping out higher than 14,000 feet. Each summer, people flock to Colorado's fourteeners, and as a newspaper in Colorado Springs described it, it's "like collecting baseball cards: Once you've attained one, you want to gain the whole set."

First they came for the mule deer. Then they came for the black-footed ferrets. Now the Bureau of Land Management is coming for the fun-loving residents of Craig, Colorado.

Despite record snow this winter, Colorado's ski areas could be in for a serious lack of the white stuff before the end of the century, according to the latest State of the Rockies Report Card, the third annual assessment of the region produced by Colorado College. The report card found that across the Rockies, 14 ski areas could lost half their annual snowfall by 2085.

The skyrocketing number of oil and gas wells throughout the Rocky Mountain West is beginning to create strange alliances among property rights activists and

I’m always amazed at the number of intriguing, sometimes important, and often bizarre science conferences that take place here in Boulder, Colorado. With the