Photographers include Whitton Feer, Johnna Geick, Bruce Finley, Rainy Adkins, Auguste Voss, and Mitchell Adams
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Our staff
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Our staff and a dilapidated cart on the last day of fieldwork, Crawford Colorado
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Changing climate, changing lives journalists, with Samuel Essah
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Pete Mueller shows journalists Carly Valerious and Emily Stamper how to construct a solar-powered water pump at Solar Energy International in Paonia
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Journalists prepare to get into trucks that will bring them 7.5 miles into a coal mine, Kathy Welt, environmental engineer, stands on the right
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Students prepared to enter the West Elk Coal Mine, Colorado’s last underground mine
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John Poulos, who has worked in the mining industry for over 40 years
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John Poulos, engineering manager at the mine, presents the mine’s map. All of the shaded blocks are areas of previously mined coal.
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Reporters practice breathing into air filters, a procedure required for anyone who enters the mine
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A drawing displayed in the safety room of the coal mine
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Journalists Sam Bower and Whitton Feer admire a miner’s truck
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Morning light over a pond and coal conveyor belt at the West Elk Coal Mine in Paonia
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Journalists Olivia Dicks, and Johnna Geick mentally prepare to enter a coal mine
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billly barr, speaking to reporters inside his cabin in Gothic
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billy barr in his home, photo by Auguste Voss
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Landscape
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Amory Lovins in his living-room jungle, photo by Auguste Voss
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Lovins shows off his innovative cookware, photo by Auguste Voss
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Lovins and his fancy toilet, photo by Auguste Voss
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Amory Lovins shows a computer monitor showing the efficiency of his home to reporters
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The Lovinses home, photo by Auguste Voss
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John Norton outside of his home in Crested Butte
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Sue Navy holds up prayer flags promoting the conservation of a mountain called Red Lady by locals, which is often threatened by mining proposals. Photo by Johnna Geick.
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The Great Sand Dunes
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Apache elder, Bryan Vigil thanks Johnna Geick for her attentive listening, in the parking lot of Great Sand Dunes Nat. Park
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Auden Schendler, the vice president of sustainability for Aspen Skiing Company
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A center-pivot irrigation system in the San Luis Valley
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Rainy Adkins and Lili Weir take a break at an alien watch area in Hooper
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Visiting professor, Bruce Finley, enjoys lunch among his alien brethren
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An employee at White Rock Specialties inspects potato bags, headed to Kroger
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Francisco Sebastian, floor manager at White Rock Services, has worked in the Colorado potato industry for over 20 years
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Mitchell Adams, center, listens to a floor manager at the White Rock Specialties potato packing facility in Mosca, which sits in an old high school gymnasium
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Samuel Essah, an expert potato researcher for Colorado State University addresses reporters in Center
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Potatoes being photographically sorted at White Rock Specialties in Mosca
- Burn zone from the Decker fire
- Jerry Mallett lives in a house near the Decker fire. He was evacuated for about a week.
- Terry Krasko, staff officer at USDA Forrest Service, presenting about the Decker fire
- Yaks grazing in the San Luis Valley
- Farm equipment on the Rockey Potato Farm
- Students listen to Sheldon Rockey, in the farm break room
- Reporter Emily Stamper plays with Rusty the potato dog
- Sheldon Rockey with his potato seeds
- Ian Gavin and Dave Bertrand, employees at the Drake power station
- Sheldon Rockey in front of his fingerling potatoes
- Martin Drake Power Station from over a fence