Local Motion: Western Slope Author Craig Childs and Filmmaker Ben Clark on Dark Skies, Restored Land, and Finding Hope in the Natural World
Two Western Slope Voices on What We Stand to Lose — and Restore
Craig Childs has been making a slow migration around western Colorado for 35 years — from Ouray to Ridgeway to the North Fork and now Norwood — and writing about the landscapes he's moved through along the way. His books are always about place, he says, but they move through time as well: what a landscape looked like a thousand years ago, a million, a billion.
His newest book, The Wild Dark, looks up. It's the story of a 200-mile bike trek from the Las Vegas Strip into the Mojave Desert — nine nights of riding away from one of…
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