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I’m a freelance journalist based in Colorado, where I specialize in writing about the changing American West and travel writing from a shrinking globe. I hope you enjoy it. Please feel free to contact me at david.m.frey@comcast.net.
Western Tradition Partnership boasts its secrecy, and the effectiveness of its attacks. After a major court victory, and a finding of wrongdoing, the group fights on. It’s been an up-and-down week for Western Tradition Partnership. One day, the right-wing political group won a major judgment that found Montana’s century-old campaign finance laws unconstitutional. Another day,...
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NEW WEST Rep. John Salazar was once a shoo-in for his seat in Congress. But now the moderate Colorado Democrat is running neck-and-neck with Republican Scott Tipton, whose Tea Party support has made him a contender.
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Leaf-peepers from across Colorado swarm to the Western Slope each fall to catch the golden swaths of aspen forests. In recent years, though, aspen groves in Colorado and elsewhere in the West have been in trouble. Massive stands have been dying off, part of a phenomenon called sudden aspen decline. But things are looking...
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Police think they’ve finally solved a years-old murder—if only they can get the alleged perpetrator back to Colorado to stand trial. On October 2, 2004, Loma rancher Jay Yount was rounding up cattle in the meadows below Douglas Pass, in a remote corner of Garfield County. As he rode his horse near a lonely...
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After 11 years of returning lynx to Colorado, wildlife officials say a viable population is in place. Thirty-seven years after the last known lynx was trapped in Colorado, state wildlife officials are hailing an 11-year reintroduction program for establishing a viable population of lynx here again. On Friday, officials declared the effort a success...
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The Fourmile Fire became the most destructive in Colorado history, and a reminder of the dangers of living where civilization meets the wild. Mark Wischmeyer looked out across Fourmile Canyon and saw smoke rising into the sky over Gold Hill. A volunteer firefighter in Jamestown, Colo., 14 miles northwest of Boulder, Wischmeyer chalked it...
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