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Local author receives Wallace Stegner Award
Original article from The Mountain Mail
Originally published on May 4, 2012
By Mountain Mail Staff

National Book Award nominee Kent Haruf, Salida, received the Wallace Stegner Award April 25 at a ceremony at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Seven Salida residents were among the approximately 150 people who attended the event at the university’s Center of the American West. Best known for his novel “Plainsong,” Haruf received a standing…

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Patty Limerick featured on the Bureau of Land Management’s Website: Is Democracy Compatible with Conservation?
Original article from Bureau of Land Management
Originally published on April 25, 2012
By Patricia Nelson Limerick

If you pay attention to the history of the Bureau of Land Management, you will soon be wrestling with one of the most consequential questions of the last two centuries. The practices we cluster under the category “conservation” all hold in common a commitment to restrain some uses of natural resources so that those resources…

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2011 Wallace Stegner Award recipient John McPhee

The Center of the American West presented the 2011 Wallace Stegner Award to John McPhee on October 27, 2011. Click on the image above to listen to the podcast from this event.