by: ArkAnglers

In the upper Arkansas River valley, fall means crystal clear days followed by crisp nights, peaks dusted white with a riot of color below, and a river that grows clearer, slower, and more detailed with each passing week. Hatches of blue wing olive mayflies bring brown trout to the surface to feed and summer’s last grasshoppers topple from streamside brush into the current, providing a windfall to waiting fish...

by: Linda Nyberg

A Skystream 3.7 1.8 kW mini-turbine (windmill), now graces the skyline at the headquarters of Sangre De Cristo Electric Association, Inc. in Buena Vista, Colorado. In conjunction with Chris Martin of Headwaters Energy & Finance, the mini-turbine was “tipped up” on Monday, June 25th. “It is a prime time for the co-ops and the utility industry as a whole, to step up to the bat and make renewable energy not only visible but workable in our community...