by Jonathan P. Thompson (Torrey House, 2018)
I remember the Orange Tang of the Animas River running through Durango, Colorado, and on down to Aztec and Farmington, New Mexico, in August 2015. Where normally kayakers and fly fishermen joust with tubers and swimmers, the river coursed with the mineral runoff of Silverton’s shuttered Gold King Mine, zinc, cadmium, aluminum arsenic, and iron hydroxides let loose by an EPA remediation team.