Discovering the Colorado Plateau

Bill Haggerty is a Colorado native, an avid outdoorsman and hiker, and author of Hiking Colorado’s Western Slope (FalconGuides, 2017); Best Easy Day Hikes Grand Junction and Fruita (FalconGuides, 2015); and Haggerty’s Hikes in a Bottle, (H3J Publications/GJ Daily Sentinel, 2007) a collection of fifty-two top hikes on the Colorado Plateau chosen from thirteen years of weekly hiking columns Haggerty penned for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. Haggerty was also a contributing author to the nationally recognized “Project WILD,” an interdisciplinary environmental education program for K-12, and a contributing author to Monumental Majesty: 100 years of Colorado National Monument, published by Grand Junction Media in 2011. He hosted the popular “Bill’s Backyard,” on Grand Junction television for eighteen years, a weekly program that documented wildlife in western Colorado. He also taught journalism and mass media at Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University). Haggerty has roamed the Colorado Plateau for more than four decades as a reporter, photographer, Colorado Division of Wildlife Information/Education Specialist, outdoor columnist, conservationist, naturalist, wildlife enthusiast, and public lands advocate.