Innovations in media: Yampa Yearnings

Longtime Steamboat Springs journalist Eugene Buchanan is a hustler, and that’s allowed him to freely follow his passions for decades.

Buchanan, a fellow employee at Steamboat Pilot & Today with me, is an experienced explorer, magazine editor and writer, and writer of a half-dozen books. 

His latest, “Yampa Yearnings: An Ode to One of the Last Wild Rivers in the West,” is a 412-page, self-published love letter to the Yampa River, which runs through Steamboat Springs on its way to Dinosaur National Monument near the Colorado-Utah border. 

The book, Buchanan writes, “heralds northwest Colorado’s Yampa River, the last remaining free-flowing tributary to the Colorado River Basin. From its headwaters a fly cast from the birthplace of the country’s wilderness movement to its confluence with the Green 250 miles later in Dinosaur National Monument, the Yampa River supports agriculture, municipalities, a word-class ski resort, industry, endangered fish, unique riparian zones, water rights, recreation and more. “

In addition to being a fun and informative read, the book highlights Buchanan’s entrepreneurial spirit.

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