Posts tagged as “silent evidence”

For Coloradans, the year 2020 had a twinge of the Old Testament’s heavenly wrath. With the coming of spring and the pleasant calls of returning Meadowlarks and Red-winged Blackbirds, disease haunted the gathering places of people as COVID-19 spread across the world like an out-of-control, but silent forest fire.  Drought followed pestilence in the Rocky Mountain Region as the normal March and April snows failed to arrive, denying much-needed moisture to the highland peaks and reducing water in creeks, which in turn could not green the dry forests and plains below. It was the driest April on record, and 2020 was the second-driest year in the intermountain region in over a century.  When the summer monsoons arrived, they were mostly devoid of rainwater but not…