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David O. Williams is the editor and co-founder of RealVail.com and has had his awarding-winning work (see About Us) published in more than 75 newspapers and magazines around the world, including 5280 Magazine, American Way Magazine (American Airlines), the Anchorage Daily News (Alaska), the Anchorage Daily Press (Alaska), Aspen Daily News, Aspen Journalism, the Aspen Times, Beaver Creek Magazine, the Boulder Daily Camera, the Casper Star Tribune (Wyoming), the Chicago Tribune, Colorado Central Magazine, the Colorado Independent (formerly Colorado Confidential), Colorado Newsline, Colorado Politics (formerly the Colorado Statesman), Colorado Public News, the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Colorado Springs Independent, the Colorado Statesman (now Colorado Politics), the Colorado Times Recorder, the Cortez Journal, the Craig Daily Press, the Curry Coastal Pilot (Oregon), the Daily Trail (Vail), the Del Norte Triplicate (California), the Denver Daily News, the Denver Gazette, the Denver Post, the Durango Herald, the Eagle Valley Enterprise, the Eastside Journal (Bellevue, Washington), ESPN.com, Explore Big Sky (Mont.), the Fort Morgan Times (Colorado), the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, the Greeley Tribune, the Huffington Post, the King County Journal (Seattle, Washington), the Kingman Daily Miner (Arizona), KUNC.org (northern Colorado), LA Weekly, the Las Vegas Sun, the Leadville Herald-Democrat, the London Daily Mirror, the Moab Times Independent (Utah), the Montgomery Journal (Maryland), the Montrose Daily Press, The New York Times, the Parent’s Handbook, Peaks Magazine (now Epic Life), People Magazine, Powder Magazine, the Pueblo Chieftain, PT Magazine, the Rio Blanco Herald Times (Colorado), Rocky Mountain Golf Magazine, the Rocky Mountain News, RouteFifty.com (formerly Government Executive State and Local), the Salt Lake Tribune, SKI Magazine, Ski Area Management, SKIING Magazine, the Sky-Hi News, the Steamboat Pilot & Today, the Sterling Journal Advocate (Colorado), the Summit Daily News, United Hemispheres (United Airlines), Vail/Beaver Creek Magazine, Vail en Español, Vail Health Magazine, Vail Valley Magazine, the Vail Daily, the Vail Trail, Westword (Denver), Writers on the Range and the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Williams is also the founder, publisher and editor of RealVail.com and RockyMountainPost.com.

Remembering John Fielder and his endless photographic fight to conserve Colorado’s wild place

Remembering John Fielder and his endless photographic fight to conserve Colorado’s wild place

I didn’t know photographer John Fielder was battling pancreatic cancer until I received the following email statement on Saturday from Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and then read this story in the…

‘Poster child for climate change,’ Glenwood Springs ramps up opposition to Utah oil trains

‘Poster child for climate change,’ Glenwood Springs ramps up opposition to Utah oil trains

A train stuck in the mud in Glenwood Springs this past spring due to rapid snowmelt and a mudslide (City of Glenwood Springs photo). Elected officials in Glenwood Springs are…

Oil-train opponents look to expiring Moffat Tunnel lease for leverage with state, Union Pacific

Oil-train opponents look to expiring Moffat Tunnel lease for leverage with state, Union Pacific

The Moffat Tunnel near Winter Park (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline photo). State officials since last spring have quietly been reaching out to communities along Colorado’s main east-west rail line to gauge…

BLM accused of fast-tracking oil facility expansion in Utah as backdoor way of upping production

BLM accused of fast-tracking oil facility expansion in Utah as backdoor way of upping production

A Union Pacific oil train near the Grand Mesa just outside of Grand Junction (David O. Williams photo). A proposal to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to expand the…

Boebert’s brutal month of June comes to a close with Frisch on attack over abortion, missed vote

Boebert’s brutal month of June comes to a close with Frisch on attack over abortion, missed vote

Boebert with a backdrop of guns during a Zoom committee meeting in 2021. U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has had a busy month of racking up headlines for what her constant…

Eagle County, forest officials, energy experts keeping close eye on debt-ceiling deal this week

Eagle County, forest officials, energy experts keeping close eye on debt-ceiling deal this week

The Thompson Divide is a 200,000-acre area within Colorado’s White River National Forest. (Courtesy of EcoFlight) AVON, Colo. — Memorial Day is the unofficial kickoff to the summer tourism season in…

Soloviev attorney: billionaire ‘has no further interest in purchasing’ Tennessee Pass rail

Soloviev attorney: billionaire ‘has no further interest in purchasing’ Tennessee Pass rail

A Union Pacific oil train on UP’s Central Corridor near the Colorado River in Palisade on Saturday, May 6, 2023 — four days after a railcar fire in the same…

State lawmaker and former local mobile home park resident Velasco targets water quality issues

State lawmaker and former local mobile home park resident Velasco targets water quality issues

The Eagle River Village mobile home park in Edwards (David O. Williams photo). EDWARDS, Colo. — When Elizabeth Velasco first moved to Colorado from San Francisco del Rincón, Mexico, she…

Timely new book ‘Wildflowers Never Die’ follows careers of CIA operatives from Korea to Camp Hale to Laos to Vietnam

Timely new book ‘Wildflowers Never Die’ follows careers of CIA operatives from Korea to Camp Hale to Laos to Vietnam

While it’s been reported on locally for years, it’s safe to say the lesser-known use of Camp Hale near Vail as a CIA training ground for Tibetan guerillas returning home to…

Colorado lawmakers cite Ohio spill in formal attempt to block federal support for Utah oil trains

Colorado lawmakers cite Ohio spill in formal attempt to block federal support for Utah oil trains

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado on Monday wrote a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urging him to formally suspend federal authorization of…