Paul Larmer is the executive director of High Country News, where he began as an intern and went on to hold almost every other possible position. He holds an M.A. in natural resource policy and worked for years at the Sierra Club. Every summer he plants a few crops on his small ranch in Western Colorado and pretends to be a farmer.
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