I’ll join in with accolades great article. As a recently chased out local I totally get the anger and frustration that runs in the undertones of this well written article. However it has been going this way since the 1900’s 500,000 in the state when my great aunt was born, over a million in the 1920’s during my grandparents time, a million and a half when my parents were born in the mid fifties, almost two and a half when I was born in the 70’s, three and a quarter when my oldest was born in the 90’s, over four and a half when my youngest was born in the 2000’s, just short of 6 million when I got out. I still love the high wild places but you can have the front range, all the people, and the traffic. I don’t mean to sound like the old crabby guy yelling “Get off my lawn” but it feels that way sometimes when you watch the thing you love get overrun. Hearing the tone in Nikki’s writing just hit a nerve I guess. Keep up the writing and hiking one of the best things you can do as a writer is make someone feel.
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