https://www.weeksinthewest.com/blog daily 0.75 2024-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1564335142746-OKPQHIZSI807P43QRU8U/20190320_190326.jpg Blog https://www.weeksinthewest.com/blog/2024/11/10/the-corporation-the-scientist-and-the-fish monthly 0.5 2024-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1be94a9c-46da-4c09-a037-0978539fa9b4/Piedmont%2BMap%2Bw%2Bbeet%2Bfactories.jpg Blog - The Corporation, The Scientist and The Fish - Make it stand out Beet sugar factories in northern colorado built from 1901-1927. graphic created by Philip riggs. https://www.weeksinthewest.com/blog/2024/10/17/invasive-fish-in-the-irrigation-ditch monthly 0.5 2024-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/abfa613e-3dac-4060-8ec4-2c042a6d9751/1918+GWS+pollution+report+%281%29.jpg Blog - Invasive Fish in the Irrigation Ditch - Make it stand out cover of max ellis’ 1918 investigations on great western Sugar’s pollution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/acfba3ce-48fd-414b-a4f2-ef2c8b9b6dc1/20240515_171039.jpg Blog - Invasive Fish in the Irrigation Ditch - Make it stand out Searching for carp on the banks of Fossil creek reservoir, may 17, 2024. photo by author. https://www.weeksinthewest.com/blog/2022/10/17/engineering-beef-a-brief-history-of-the-modern-steak monthly 0.5 2024-10-17 https://www.weeksinthewest.com/blog/2022/6/10/check-out-my-new-book monthly 0.5 2022-06-10 https://www.weeksinthewest.com/blog/2020/8/10/the-beirut-explosion-and-ammonium-nitrate-in-historical-perspective monthly 0.5 2021-01-21 https://www.weeksinthewest.com/blog/2020/5/17/making-meat-and-the-coronavirus-in-historical-perspective monthly 0.5 2020-05-18 https://www.weeksinthewest.com/blog/2019/12/5/raising-animals-or-making-beef monthly 0.5 2024-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1575584529838-TBE0M4XK18JY63PS7WX4/Matsushima+posing+with+beef+2006.jpg Blog - Raising Animals or Making Beef? John Matsushima poses with sides of beef in 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1575585002597-4LJVXKFQYI9EQ9I06PSB/WD+Farr+poses+next+to+a+feedlot+pen%2C+undated.jpg Blog - Raising Animals or Making Beef? W.D. Farr poses next to a feedlot pen, undated https://www.weeksinthewest.com/blog/2019/7/28/feedlots-and-freeways monthly 0.5 2019-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1564334142736-YSKX6J2ALJXNN36YXIL4/feedlot+photo+for+feedlots+and+freeways+post.JPG Blog - Feedlots and Freeways Typical Feedlot along I-76. Note the road in the foreground used to deliver feeds. The cattle congregate at the feed bunks behind the road. Note also the massive pile of manure at the center of one of the feed pens in the background. Finally, in the far background, observe a feed mill where feeds are delivered and mixed with the aid of a computer that calibrates the rations to achieve maximum weight gain per pound of food eaten (also called feed/conversion ratio) https://www.weeksinthewest.com/blog/2019/1/6/loro-ipsum-article monthly 0.5 2019-01-06 https://www.weeksinthewest.com/blogcv daily 0.75 2019-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1547201461550-FUUW23619CGUR3V9M4L8/book-shelves-book-stack-bookcase-207662.jpg Curriculum Vitae https://www.weeksinthewest.com/about-me daily 0.75 2024-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1548553659774-04OKZOAF7S96CFIL8Y5V/401.jpg About Me University of colorado history graduate students and Professors (l to R): sara porterfield, michael weeks, Elizabeth fenn, karen lloyd d’onofrio, paul sutter, and thomas andrews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1548565062159-2UU6YMI3EW87AAIPFI4N/007.jpg About Me Some of my students with maria Berriozabal, San antonio’s first Latina city council-person https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/4558d5ef-a8b3-4b5b-b17e-edb18751b625/20230415_125433+%281%29.jpg About Me - Make it stand out Conducting Field work with students on Grazing plots at Capitol reef national park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1547801835983-YCWD9727EAO87044QOYD/next+to+story+on+about+me+page.JPG About Me Graduate studies and food for thought https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1547801918472-GCS9MU7K2C62S1JONBV5/Michael+Sacha+and+Sienna.jpg About Me Michael, Sacha & Sienna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1546544753902-YUG5ZABGNEBYLKXLTTDP/Michael+at+the+Badlands.jpg About Me https://www.weeksinthewest.com/sample-syllabi daily 0.75 2024-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1548568364944-FOIASAKZRXYFG7I1UVBN/438.JPG Sample Syllabi - U.S. History since 1865 Preview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1548569154193-KKJMWAVDZVH6WA1ALRK7/animas+kayakers+and+gold+king.jpg Sample Syllabi - Environmental History Preview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1611245009415-S8GG1DTOCCXEO6FOI1WV/arches+near+Moab.jpg Sample Syllabi - History of the Modern American West Preview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1611241173988-81S4YP6V46LQMAJT9008/20200808_121220.jpg Sample Syllabi https://www.weeksinthewest.com/selected-articles-publications daily 0.75 2024-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1632333746519-VUCOV17H1CZLI51VUIS1/Ralph+Parshall+checks+on+one+of+his+flumes.jpg Selected Articles & Publications - Make it stand out RALPH PARSHALL DEMONSTRATING THE OPERATION OF HIS NAMESAKE FLUME. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WATER ARCHIVES, COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1548567360571-U1HT3J37F5SV6P6ASYT8/124.jpg Selected Articles & Publications - Book Reviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1548818561081-G32OI3RD1JG3BHDID956/Piedmont+Map+w+beet+factories.png Selected Articles & Publications Beet sugar factories in northern colorado built from 1901-1927. graphic created by Philip riggs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1548567512736-H9X6DLKL1FM5O6JGBWQO/087.jpg Selected Articles & Publications - Other Publications https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1548819000289-WGY9M1I5JBCLF8MP0TX1/Dedication_JH_Wildlife_Park_1948_Gov_Hunt.jpg Selected Articles & Publications Wyoming governor hunt dedicates the jackson hole wildlife park, 1948. photo courtesy of grand teton archives, national park service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c2e43f1c258b433460c8aca/1548819313166-4S9Y4ZVOEXXJVN1QRN3R/Flag+sun+and+snow.jpg Selected Articles & Publications An idealized winter landscape: bluebird skies and snow-covered peaks. 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