Happy Friday and welcome back to The Roundup. To the charge of having gone too long since last sending this newsletter, we must plead guilty, begging for leniency given the mitigating factor that it has been a busy couple of weeks with many in depth stories — including the latest on the Crystal River Wild […]
Author Archives: Curtis Wackerle
Curtis Wackerle is the Editor and Executive Director of Aspen Journalism, where he guides the nonprofit’s mission to deliver in-depth, independent reporting on environmental and community issues in Colorado’s mountain regions. He has extensive experience in journalism and editorial leadership, including 14 years at Aspen Daily News, where he covered city hall and, from 2016 until joining Aspen Journalism in 2020, served as editor in chief. Under his direction, Aspen Journalism has grown as a trusted source for nuanced coverage of water, land use, public policy and socioeconomic issues in the West. He grew up in Portland, has a journalism degree from the University of Montana, and lives in Woody Creek.
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The Roundup | Bauhaus, Bayer and the recycling symbol
In the last week as Aspen Journalism, we had the privilege of publishing work from Tim Cooney and Andrew Travers, telling stories relevant to Aspen History. Cooney, whose local history coverage for AJ spans volumes and who last summer authored a three-part series on the experience of the Northern Utes when white settlers arrived, now […]
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The Roundup | Hero’s boundary closure a sign of the times
The “unique nature” of the border between resort and adjacent land around the skier’s right and lower portion of the new Hero’s terrain on Aspen Mountain is among the justifications offered by Aspen Skiing Co. as to why a decades-old open boundary policy does not apply there, as reported by Elizabeth Stewart-Severy in a detailed […]
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The Roundup | The difference journalism can make
Proposed energy budget for new Pitkin County homes; limiting nonfunctional turf planting in Colorado; rights to Thompson Creek reservoir voluntarily canceled
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The Roundup | Historic losses of community echo today
When considering today’s hand-wringing over the vanquished spirit of Aspen, it is important to note that throughout Aspen’s history, laments of loss are nothing new. In a continuation of our new series, “In search of community” by Paul Andersen, we began to look at the history of Aspen’s sense of community, divided up into five […]
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The Roundup | In search of community, wrapping up our urban landscapes series, and a warmer, thirstier future
Happy new year, and welcome back to the Roundup, Aspen Journalism’s newsletter sharing our most recent stories and insight from the newsroom. Thank you for bearing with us through our end-of-year campaign and helping us to raise donations to fund much of our 2024 reporting. Thanks to readers and funders who believe in this work […]
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The Roundup | From the headwaters to local housing to the lower basin
Happy Monday and welcome back to the Roundup. Usually we take this time to write about the news of the hour, but today, we need your support to ensure this work continues and expands in 2024 and beyond. Our community has access to investigative, independent journalism thanks to this newsroom, and the readers and funders […]
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The Roundup | Sustaining elk herds, protecting wetlands and redefining urban landscaping
Recently at Aspen Journalism, we continued our water and urban landscapes series in collaboration with Big Pivots, with part four providing a look at what it takes for a homeowner to kill their traditional turf in favor of something more water wise. Writing for our environment desk, Elizabeth Stweart-Severy checked in on Colorado Parks and […]
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The Roundup | Wringing water from urban landscapes
The genesis for the five-part series currently underway exploring water use devoted to urban landscapes came last winter when Allen Best, a longtime Colorado journalist who has contributed to this news organization since 2013, approached Aspen Journalism to see if we would be interested in collaborating on a project he had long wanted to pursue. […]
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The Roundup | Reintroducing wolves, eliminating turf, protecting the Crystal
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