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Item Open Access Call of the wild: African safari a mix of intrigue, adventure and survival(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1999) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Fort Collins Coloradoan, publisherReport on trip to Botswana, environmental conservation and biodiversity, May-June 1999. Encountering a leopard in the night and wild dogs on the hunt gives experience of the ancient struggle to eat and not be eaten. Life persists in the midst of its perpetual perishing. The Dark Continent is exuberant with life. These rare carnivores struggle to survive, endangered species that ought to be conserved.Item Open Access Nature of the beast: in Uganda, people and primates face unique struggles(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2003) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Fort Collins Coloradoan, publisherReport on trip to Uganda: gorilla and chimpanzee conservation and development. Uganda primate encounters leave a more lasting searching both for human origins and future hopes. Here the human species, exemplified in these Ugandans overcoming tragedy and hardship, is seeking to conserve these nearest of our primate kin. Paradoxically, in that very caring, we reveal the still quite stupendous divide that separates us from them.Item Open Access Nepal: sublime surrounds simple life(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1998) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Fort Collins Coloradoan, publisherReport on trip to Nepal, environmental conservation, and human development, 1998. A trek in the Himalayas proves a stimulating mix of the sublime majesty of nature and the simple life of the Nepalis. They eke out a living, terracing steep slopes with manual labor. They seem backward; there is personal integrity in their weathered faces. Everest is an icon of this dialectic of majesty and poverty.Item Open Access Save Poudre as signature of eternity(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1979-1989) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Fort Collins Coloradoan, publisherAdvocating saving the Poudre River as wild and scenic, against development and dams for irrigation and residential water. The Poudre River canyon is an age-old gorge with a river still flowing free, an impressive signature of time and eternity. Having it near a growing metropolitan area, Fort Collins, is especially important for keeping a sense of perspective in the Rocky Mountain West. Saving the Poudre preserves wildness and simultaneously keeps those who visit it better proportioned persons.Item Open Access The coldest place on earth: forbidding, foreboding Antarctica shrouded in ice and mystery(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2000) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Fort Collins Coloradoan, publisherReport on trip to Antarctica, environmental conservation, January-February, 2000. Antarctica is the coldest, windiest, loneliest place on Earth--nature in her wildest and most relentless moods. This is the uninhabited continent, not just by humans, but quite forbidding for land animals. The penguins and seals are only marginally on land. Just this extreme wildness proved Antarctica's deepest attraction.Item Open Access We should preserve our western skyline(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1981) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Fort Collins Coloradoan, publisherAdvocating saving Horsetooth Mountain as a county park, with a referendum for sales tax increase enabling purchase of land owned by a farmer and threatened by development. Horsetooth Mountain should be preserved as the most distinctive of the foothills peaks between Denver and Wyoming. The logo of the city of Fort Collins is this mountain, with a skein of geese, chosen as a scene distinctive to our home landscape.Item Open Access Wolves pack in entertainment(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Fort Collins Coloradoan, publisherRolston's account of tracking and watching wolves in Yellowstone National Park, March 2011. Agate Creek Pack, and yearling pups. Lamar Pack and elk kills. Grizzly eating bison. Alpha 06 female, pregnant, and recollections of her chasing bears from her den. Sixteen years of wolf restoration in Yellowstone.