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By Patty Limerick
Center for Native Ecosystems Entry
April 2009

At long last, we are positioned to embrace the muddled state of human nature, and therein lies our greatest opportunity for conservation.

Pure virtue and unambiguous principle, history shows, have struggled to keep their footing and stay upright when they descend from the heavens and try to touch the earth. When we depart from the zone of principle, reality instantly tosses our neat and pure categories around like last fall’s dry leaves caught in a wild spring wind. (Read on …)

Video Posted on the S.J. Quinney College of Law Website
University of Utah
Filmed: 6 Mar 2009, Posted: 31 Mar 2009
Updated on: 31 Mar 2009

Patricia Nelson Limerick is the faculty director and chair of the board for the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, where she is also a professor of history. She has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between academics and the general public and to demonstrating the benefits of applying historical perspective to contemporary dilemmas and conflicts. She has received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship and the Hazel Barnes Prize, Colorado University’s highest award for teaching and research.

By Patty Limerick

Published February 27, 2009 at 12:05 a.m.
In the Rocky Mountain News
Read original article here

The death of a newspaper hits me as hard as the death of a friend.

Every now and then, a platitude captures reality, and the old saying – that newspapers are the first draft of history – is one of those high-performance cliches. And this first draft involves a lot more than record-keeping.

We all run around in the course of a normal day, trying to make the world a better place, snarling ourselves up in detail, misunderstanding each other and inadvertently stirring up trouble, doing our best to remember our principles and to steer by them if we can manage, in the midst of frenzied activity, to remember what they were. (Read on …)

… from the Obama administration

The Denver Post
Various Authors
December 7, 2008

The Denver Post asked a diverse stable of Westerners to add their voices to the chorus of Americans who have advice for President-elect Barack Obama. Top row, left to right: John Hickenlooper, Cleo Parker Robinson, Norma Anderson, Jeff S. Fard. Middle row: Dottie Lamm, Gary Hart, Federico Pena, Brian Schweitzer, Tucker Hart Adams. Bottom row: Al Simpson, Andrew Romanoff, Bill Owens, Patty Limerick. (Read on …)

Patty Limerick, Special to the Rocky
Rocky Mountain News
August 29, 2008

In the next few days, we are all going to be professors of communications, as we grade Barack Obama and John McCain on their speeches.

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By Patty Limerick, Special to the Rocky
Rocky Mountain News
August 28, 2008

Wherever you look, paramedics on bicycles are available and ready to come to your aid. But no one had the foresight to arrange for a fleet of cultural anthropologists on bicycles to circle the town, wielding their professional expertise to help us figure out the spectacles unfolding in front of us.

The anthropologist who came to my aid was not riding a bicycle; Emily McDonald was waiting for her mother, a party activist, by the VIP entrance at the Pepsi Center. A graduate student in anthropology just back from field work in Buenos Aires, she was primed and ready to interpret the rituals and ceremonies playing out before our eyes. (Read on …)

By Patty Limerick, Special to the Rocky
Rocky Mountain News
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

‘As we peer into society’s future, we – you and I and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.”

Who said this? A Democrat at the Pepsi Center speaking in opposition to offshore drilling? Actually, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his remarkable Farewell Address of Jan. 17, 1961.

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By Patty Limerick, Special to the Rocky
Rocky Mountain News
Originally published 07:23 p.m., August 25, 2008
Updated 12:25 a.m., August 26, 2008

There are police everywhere in Denver – on foot, in cars, on bikes, on motorcycles, on horses. Looking at them has made me a rattled time traveler.

In one moment, I am solidly in 2008, and I am looking right past the guns, clubs, helmets, face masks and uniforms, and seeing a bunch of people who have tough, nerve-racking and very important jobs. This town is full of public figures who can never be overconfident about their safety, and also full of citizens who deserve to be secure and protected while historic events swirl around them. The police are an absolutely necessary presence. (Read on …)

By Patty Limerick, Special to the Rocky
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Imagine a scenario that would hold great hope for the nation: As the Democratic delegates arrive at DIA, they are each handed a book, produced by a bipartisan team of Coloradans. The book is called A Field Guide for the Identification of Rocky Mountain Political Figures. On its cover there is a brightly colored label that says: “VERY URGENT. Read this, or you are really going to be lost.” (Read on …)

The West evokes thoughts of classic heroes riding into troubled towns, bringing justice and order. The candidate who captures that myth — and the region’s swing voters — will have the advantage.

By PATTY LIMERICK
The Wall Street Journal
August 23, 2008

In the winter of 1874, Alfred Packer and five fellow prospectors headed into the snow-packed mountains of southern Colorado. A few weeks later, Mr. Packer was still alive. His comrades were not. This variation in morbidity eventually earned Mr. Packer a permanent place, as both murderer and cannibal, in the folklore of the Mountain West. His legend acquired a political edge from the remark ostensibly made by the judge at the trial. “There were seven Democrats in Hinsdale County,” the judge apocryphally said to Mr. Packer, “and you ate five of them.” (Read on …)