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Will The Colorado River Get Fracked? Ecowatch, 5/16/2013
Why Did Hickenlooper and Urbina Kill The Fracking Healthcare Bill? Huffington Post and EcoWatch, 4/24/2012
Colorado Most Endangered River in America!, Several versions in several newspapers and blog sites including Yahoo News, 4/18/2013
Hickenlooper Not The Only Government Official Trying To Frack Colorado, Huffington Post, 3/8/2013
Advice for Jewell on Protecting the Colorado River, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3/8/2013
Colorado's Bully Governor Says He Will Sue Fort Collins To Overturn Fracking Ban, Ecowatch, 2/27/2013
Fort Collins Bans Fracking as Democracy Comes Alive in Colorado, Ecowatch, 2/21/2013
In 2012, Grassroots Democracy Led In Boulder County, Huffington Post, 1/14/2013
Windy Gap Firming Project Is A Bad Deal For Colorado, Denver Post and Sky High Daily News, 1/8/2013
Boulder County Should Reject Moffat Water Project, Boulder Daily Camera, 12-19-2012 (They did, we won!)
Don't Frack Denver's Water!, Huffington Post, 12-13-2012
New York City Meets The Colorado River At UN Climate Talks?, Huffington Post, 12-7-2012
Trouble With Hickenlooper, Huffington Post, 8-4-2012
Fracking Vs. Marijuana: Colorado's New Cancer War? Huffington Post, 6-21-2012
Fort Collins Should Ban Fracking Coloradoan, 5/22/2012
Fracking Has Caused Damage And Must Be Controlled Denver Business Journal, April/2012
Boulder County Should Reject NISP Boulder Daily Camera, 5/4/2102
Will Fracking Destroy Colorado's Rivers? Huffington Post, 3/19/2012
Would Rick Santorum ban The Lorax? Huffington Post, 2/8/2012
Fixing The Perfect Storm on the Colorado River Huffington Post, 1/31/2012
Gardner Wrong About NISP, Again Coloradoan, 1/30/2012
Flaming Fiasco: $9 Billion Flaming Gorge Pipeline Would Further Drain the Colorado River System by Gary Wockner and Alexandra Cousteau, Huffington Post, 1/10/2012
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly in Colorado's New Fracking Rules Huffington Post, 1/2/2012
Is Colorado Addicted to Oil? Denver Post 12/4/2011


Poudre River in the News

Gary is the Director, Spokesperson, and "Poudre Waterkeeper" for the Save The Poudre Coalition. Read Save The Poudre news here.

Save The Poudre featured in the Winter 2010 international Waterkeeper Magazine! Read Gary's article, "Last Stand on the Poudre."

Colorado River in the News

Gary is the Director of the Save The Colorado River Campaign, a project of New Belgium Brewing, Patagonia, Clif Bar, and the Kenney Brothers Foundation.


Recent Events

Sierra Club National Executive Director, Carl Pope, visits Fort Collins to rally the Save The Poudre Coalition!

Pulse of the River nominated for the Colorado Book Award!

Watch Gary in the Channel 9 News Debate.

Listen to the Colorado Public Radio Interview about the Poudre MER.

Watch Gary and the Save The Poudre Team in the Great Poudre Debate!

The John Fielder event to Save The Poudre was an ENORMOUS SUCCESS!

I-25 Intersection Redevelopment: Watch the Cross Currents video debate where Gary makes the case for conservation and good land use planning.


Recent Publications
Better Alternatives to NISP, Greeley Tribune, 5/26/2011
Save the Poudre Position on Floodplains "Evolving," NCBR, 1/14/2011
Peace on the Poudre?, Coloradoan, 3/2/2010
Understand True Cost of Coal, Coloradoan, 12/8/2009
Environmental Leaders Honored in Fort Collins, Coloradoan, 8/16/2009
NISP Harms Area Agriculture Greeley Tribune, 6/30/2009
Colorado Must Plan for A "New Water Economy" Denver Post, 2/8/2009
SARS Virus Strikes Poudre School District! Coloradoan, 12/22/2008
Please Attend Public Hearings! Coloradoan, 6/15/2008
Polaris Students Feel "Invicible" After Desert Trip, Coloradoan, 2/24/08
NISP Bad For Fort Morgan, Fort Morgan Times, 2/20/08
Climate Changing on I-25 Development, Coloradoan, 12/27/2007
Vote Against Uranium Mine a State First, RMNews, 12/19/07
How to Save The Poudre River in Greeley, Greeley Trib. 10/17/07
Celebrate Conservation Leaders in Larimer County! Coloradoan, 8/18/07
Hope for the Poudre River, FC Weekly, June 6, 2007
Applegate Deceives Taxpayers, FC Weekly, Feb. 20, 2007
Choice Brings Choice Schools, Coloradoan, Jan. 2007
Dear Santa: The Environment Tops My List, RMNews, Dec. 2006
Stories Run Through River's Past and Future, Coloradoan, Nov. 2006
Cruel Irony In Highway Name, Denver Post, Oct. 2006
Coyote War Reminds Me of War in Iraq, WOTR, July 2006
Fencing Off Mexico is an Ecological Blunder, WOTR, June 2006
A River Runs Through it, Denver Post, April 9, 2006.

Books
Pulse of the River, 2007 Radio Interview and Publicity
Comeback Wolves (2005).
BicycleCowboy.com: An Eco-novel (2003).
Natl. Park Conundrums: The Wolves of Isle Royale (1997).
Sex With A Mountain Bike, and other stories (1993).
Gold Hill and Back: A Mountain Bike Escapade (1991).
Matter, (contributing editor) (2004/5/6)

Creative Non-fiction/stories
Poison, Orion, May/June 2006
Granny Hootenany and the Great Boulder Mall Crawl, Matter VII
Soccer Dads for Gray Wolves, Comeback Wolves
Show Yourself, and Others Will, Fall 2005, divide.
Nature on Wheels, Orion July/Aug 2005
"Wolf Whisperer," Orion Jan/Feb 2005
Hideaway, Matter no. V
Get On The Bus Orion Jan/Feb 2004 (read press release)
Leopold's Bench, Mountain Gazette #90
On Jumbled Rocks, Matter, no. IV

Environmental Journalism
Solar Power, Lakota Empowerment, WorldWatch, July 2005
Buffalo Dreams at Pine Ridge NIFC, July 2004
Duped by Drought? Fort Collins Weekly,  V1 I40
Lock and Load? Fort Collins Weekly, V1 I33

Editorials/Columns
Jackhammering for Water Conservation FC Coloradoan, Dec '05
Elvis, Wolves and the Death of Environmentalism, Tidepool
Rooting for the Underdog (HCN/WOTR)
Children Need Fix From Nature, (FC Coloradoan)
Why Wolves in Colorado? (Denver Post)
Can Billionaires Save The Earth? HCN/WOTR, June 2005
Endangered Species Need Roadless Habitat RM News
Aerial Gunner Man, HCN-WOTR March. 2005
Writing for the Poudre, FC Coloradoan May, 2005
Drive-Up Nature, HCN-WOTR Feb. 2005
Values of Another Kind, Denver Post Dec. 2005
River Values, FC Coloradoan, Jan. 2005
Seeing a River Through Children's Eyes, HCN, Dec. 2004
Wolves are not Terrorists, Denver Post, Oct. 2004
A Tale of Two Yellowstones, HCN, August 2004
Ignite Passion in Education (FC Coloradoan May 11,2004)
Mountain Lyin'  (RMNews, April 2004)  
IRS Hot on the Heels of Grandmas(Denver Post, 2/19/04)

Book Reviews
Bush Versus the Environment, by Robert S. Devine, Bloomsbury, May 2004.
Caribou Rising,by Rick Bass, HCN, March 2005.
Scorched Earth, by Rocky Barker, HCN, Nov. 2005
Cities in the Wilderness, by Bruce Babbitt, HCN, Feb. 2006