Amateur naturalist and environmental enthusiast. The high peaks and open prairies are my first love.

" We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. . . That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics."

~Aldo Leopold
-A Sand County Almanac-
1949