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Semester 54 Third Expedition: Connection, Revitalizing Pools, Feeling Capable and The Power of Returning

May 20, 2025

Amelia Madrigal I will be back to Utah. I whispered it to the flowers and the cacti and the cryptobiotic soil and the pour overs and the petroglyphs and the granaries and Jacob’s chair in the distance and the twelve-hour days and the crumbled up tortillas and the swimming.  I told Terry Tempest Williams and Kazuo Ishiguro and Dave Eggers and James Baldwin. I told Lily and Trilby and Mack and Lucy and Lucy and Charlie and Tessa and Nina, while laughing at Canadian Boyfriend.  I didn’t realize the desert blooms in May. The desert greeted us with graupel and snow. During the storm, I cooped up in a cave

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Living with Fire: HMI’s Approach to Wildfire Preparedness

May 1, 2025

A wildfire breaks out near Twin Lakes, CO on June, 11, 2024. Photo Credit: Steve Sunday On a Tuesday afternoon in June, 2024, a plume of smoke started to rise about ten miles south of HMI’s campus. Word spread rapidly between HMI employees and residents: a wildfire had sprung up by Twin Lakes. We would come to learn that an abandoned campfire had sparked the blaze, which ultimately burned more than 700 acres of National Forest land and took firefighters two weeks to extinguish.  It’s no secret that wildfires have increased in their frequency and ferocity across the American West. In Colorado, all 20 of the 20 largest wildfires in

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