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  • Feds drop appeal of Pinon Canyon expansion decision

    The federal government is dropping its appeal of a federal court decision that found the Army didn't adequately assess the environmental effects of increasing training at its Pinon Canyon training site in southeastern Colorado, the Denver Post reports.' [...]
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    Fetched: November 19, 2009, 11:05am EST

  • Wolverine finds home near Rocky Mountain National Park

    A wolverine that wandered more than 500 miles from Wyoming into Colorado last year has apparently found a home near the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park, and environmental groups are now eying the Centennial state as a possible reintroduction site for the elusive predator, the Denver Post reports. [...]
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    Fetched: November 17, 2009, 12:05pm EST

  • Pitkin County to donate water to Roaring Fork River

    At a meeting Monday in Denver, the Colorado Water Conservation Board approved a deal that would allow Pitkin County to donate 4.2 cubic feet per second of water rights it holds on Maroon Creek to augment in-stream flows in the Roaring Fork River, the Aspen Times reports. [...]
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    Fetched: November 17, 2009, 12:05pm EST

  • Feds purchase nearly 4,600 acres in Canyons of the Ancients National Monument

    The federal government has decided to purchase thousands of acres within the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, a decision that was praised yesterday by Gov. Bill Ritter (D). “Adding nearly 4,600 acres to the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is a tremendous accomplishment that will allow us ... [...]
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    Fetched: November 17, 2009, 12:05pm EST

  • Aspen’s hydro proposal draws criticism

    Aspen has asked for an exemption from a full federal environmental review of its proposal to build a 1.05-megawatt hydroelectric power plant, which would draw water from Castle and Maroon creeks to generate electricity, but the exemption request isn't sitting well with some residents, the Denver Post reports.' [...]
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    Fetched: November 16, 2009, 2:04pm EST

  • Roan Plateau settlement talks continue

    Earthjustice attorney Mike Freeman told the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel that settlement talks in the Colorado Environmental Coalition's lawsuit challenging federal oil and gas leases on the Roan Plateau had not yielded an agreement yet, but the talks will continue and the Bureau of Land Management has decided to suspend [...]
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    Fetched: November 09, 2009, 5:01pm EST

  • Fight brews over plan to re-allocate ATV registration fees

    Responsible Trails America, the Southern Rockies Conservation Alliance, Trout Unlimited and the Colorado Wildlife Federation are asking the state to re-allocate registration fees paid by off-road vehicle owners so that 40 percent of the collected money would go toward enforcement of off-highway vehicle laws and 30 percent would go toward [...]
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    Fetched: November 06, 2009, 3:19pm EST

  • 25,000-acre fuel reduction project proposed for Pike National Forest

    The U.S. Forest Service, Pike National Forest and Colorado Springs Utilities are seeking public comments regarding a proposed 25,000-acre fuel reduction project that aims to reduce fuel loads in Teller County to make the forest less susceptible to catastrophic wildfire. A public meeting on the proposal will be held ... [...]
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    Fetched: November 03, 2009, 11:03am EST

  • Enviros warn of risks to Upper Colorado River from diversion plan

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' draft environmental study on Denver Water's proposal to draw more water out of the Fraser River and across the Continental Divide has drawn fierce opposition from Colorado Trout Unlimited and other environmental groups who fear the increased diversions could harm the entire Upper Colorado' [...]
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    Fetched: November 02, 2009, 12:19pm EST

  • Company seeks solution to methane leak from drilling in Huerfano County

    Idaho-based Petroglyph Energy Inc. has suspended its natural gas drilling operations in Huerfano County while it searches for a solution to a methane leak that has contaminated drinking water wells in the area, the Associated Press reports. The company has proposed a plan that would prevent the flow of methane [...]
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    Fetched: November 02, 2009, 12:19pm EST

  • Summit, Eagle counties face clearcuts to remove beetle-killed trees

    Removing beetle-killed trees in Summit and Eagle counties has required clearcutting some campgrounds in the White River National Forest, but such drastic measures won't need to be taken in other parts of the forest with more diverse stands of trees, the Aspen Times reports.' [...]
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    Fetched: October 30, 2009, 6:20pm EDT

  • Hundreds turn out to oppose Hidden Gems wilderness proposal

    At a meeting last night hosted by Eagle County about the Hidden Gems wilderness proposal, hundreds of snowmobilers and off-road vehicle riders turned out to show their opposition to the plan, the Vail Daily reports. [...]
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    Fetched: October 29, 2009, 12:19pm EDT

  • Ritter names health official to top natural resources post

    Colorado health chief Jim Martin will become the new head of the Department of Natural Resources, replacing Harris Sherman, who was recently confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the Agriculture Department's undersecretary for natural resources and the environment, with oversight over the Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation [...]
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    Fetched: October 27, 2009, 1:03pm EDT

  • Outdoorsmen back Hidden Gems plan

    Aron Ralston, the first person to summit all of Colorado's 14ers solo in winter, joined a local hunter and an avid mountain biker at a press conference in Avon yesterday to endorse the Hidden Gems wilderness proposal, the Vail Daily reports. [...]
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    Fetched: October 27, 2009, 1:03pm EDT

  • Leases near conservation area up for auction

    At its November auction of energy leases, the Bureau of Land Management is expected to offer 800 acres adjacent to McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports. [...]
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    Fetched: October 27, 2009, 1:03pm EDT

  • Uranium mill’s fate rests in state’s hands

    Canada-based Energy Fuels Inc.'s proposed Pinon Ridge mill would be the first new conventional uranium mill in the United States in more than a half-century, and the only thing standing in the way of the proposal now is getting approval from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the [...]
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    Fetched: October 27, 2009, 11:19am EDT

  • Rep. Salazar introduces wilderness bill

    Rep. John Salazar (D-Colo.) introduced a bill yesterday that would protect more than 61,000 acres of public land on portions of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, Gunnison and San Juan national forests, as well as Bureau of Land Management lands. The acreage affected by the proposal includes portions of San Miguel, Ouray [...]
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    Fetched: October 23, 2009, 1:20pm EDT

  • Pace to present water bill tomorrow

    State Rep. Sal Pace (D) is scheduled to present his water mitigation incentive bill to the Fountain Creek Watershed District Board tomorrow. Pace is calling the bill "a radical new approach" to protect rural communities from so-called "buy-and-dries" when farm water is purchased by thirsty cities. The bill would put ... [...]
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    Fetched: October 22, 2009, 3:19pm EDT

  • From manure to methane

    Greeley received an $82,000 grant from Colorado to build a clean-energy park, which will eventually turn animal waste into power for a cheese factory and other businesses, the Associated Press reports. [...]
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    Fetched: October 19, 2009, 1:02pm EDT

  • Wilderness proposal would put high-altitude landing zones off-limits, Army says

    The U.S. Army said designating the lands included in the "Hidden Gems" wilderness proposal as wilderness would prohibit the military's access to high-altitude landing zones used for training purposes, the Vail Daily reports. [...]
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    Fetched: October 14, 2009, 12:02pm EDT

  • Natural gas wells proposed near Rifle

    Williams Production is proposing to drill up to 93 wells from four well pads in western Colorado beginning this fall. The proposal -- outlined in the Flatiron Mesa Master Plan of Development the company submitted to the Bureau of Land Management -- involves the construction of three new well pads, up [...]
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    Fetched: October 13, 2009, 4:19pm EDT

  • Pinon Canyon area ranchers oppose McInnis candidacy

    Representatives of the Pinon Canyon Expansion Opposition Coalition are actively opposing former Rep. Scott McInnis in his campaign for governor, accusing the former Republican congressman of misleading the public with false statements about the expansion. Representatives of PCEOC met with Scott McInnis in Walsenburg last week in an effort to explain [...]
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    Fetched: October 13, 2009, 10:19am EDT

  • Western Slope residents concerned about contaminated water wells

    There have been about 300 spills from drilling operations linked to water contamination in Colorado since 2003, but finding the source of the contamination has proven difficult and time-consuming for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which investigates contamination complaints, the Denver Post reports. [...]
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    Fetched: October 12, 2009, 7:19pm EDT

  • Habitat expected to be added for Preble’s meadow jumping mouse

    The Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to propose protecting an additional 19,000 acres of land along the Front Range as critical habitat for the threatened Preble's meadow jumping mouse, as part of a broad effort within the agency to reconsider endangered species decisions, the Denver Post reports. [...]
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    Fetched: October 07, 2009, 1:19pm EDT

  • State lawmakers ask Bennet, Udall to prevent annexation of Pinon Canyon

    Several state lawmakers from southeastern Colorado sent a letter yesterday to Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) asking them to stop the Army from using annexation laws to transfer Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site to Fort Carson, which Pinon Canyon expansion opponents fear would allow the Army to proceed [...]
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    Fetched: October 06, 2009, 6:19pm EDT

  • DeGette includes Roan Plateau in wilderness proposal

    Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) is considering introducing legislation that would designate 890,000 acres in 34 areas of Colorado as wilderness, including 40,000 acres on and around the top of the Roan Plateau that has been leased for oil and gas development, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports. [...]
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    Fetched: October 05, 2009, 2:20pm EDT

  • Not all acres in Hidden Gems proposal worthy of wilderness, USFS says

    White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams said only 82,000 acres of national forest lands included in the Hidden Gems wilderness proposal qualify for protection, the Aspen Times reports. Environmentalists are pushing to designate 400,000 acres on the forest and nearby Bureau of Land Management parcels. [...]
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    Fetched: October 05, 2009, 2:20pm EDT

  • Conference looks at capture, use of methane gas

    Methane gas has about 23 times the heat-trapping capacity as carbon dioxide, making it a concern when it comes to climate change, and experts at the U.S. Coal Mine Methane Conference in Boulder last week said gas and coal mine companies should team up so that the 158 billion cubic [...]
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    Fetched: October 05, 2009, 2:20pm EDT

  • Prescribed burning planned to treat sudden aspen decline

    The Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit is planning to use prescribed burning this fall to treat about 500 acres of aspen stands affected by sudden aspen decline and to regenerate aspen within the Battlement Mesa area north of Collbran. While aspen generally are not treated with prescribed ... [...]
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    Fetched: September 30, 2009, 2:02am EDT

  • Groups ask Udall, Bennet to support clean energy bill

    With the Senate announcing tomorrow that it will begin debate on a comprehensive clean energy bill, a coalition of groups has come to together to urge Sens. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) to support the bill. The group includes Aspen Skiing Co., VoteVets and Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. [...]
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    Fetched: September 30, 2009, 2:02am EDT

  • FWS maintains status quo for wildflower

    In a finding prompted by a court settlement with Center for Native Ecosystems, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that an endangered Colorado wildflower, the clay-loving wild buckwheat, needs greater protection, especially on Bureau of Land Management land east of Delta and Montrose. However, the Fish and Wildlife [...]
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    Fetched: September 30, 2009, 2:02am EDT

  • Members sought for White River advisory group

    The Bureau of Land Management in Meeker and the Northwest Colorado Resource Advisory Council are looking for people who want to join an advisory group for the White River field office, as it works on an amendment to its resource management plan. Participants will serve as a subgroup under the Northwest [...]
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    Fetched: September 29, 2009, 5:01pm EDT

  • Advocates call for wilderness protections

    Wilderness advocates gathered today along the Platte River, near the state’s largest outdoor recreation company, to call on Colorado’s congressional delegation to support new wilderness protections. “We need to think big and be big when it comes to new wilderness protections,” Suzanne Jones, Central Rockies regional director of The Wilderness Society, [...]
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    Fetched: September 29, 2009, 2:02pm EDT

  • Restoration plan announced for areas touched by Hayman Fire

    Officials representing the U.S. Forest Service, the National Forest Foundation and Vail Resorts unveiled a $4 million plan yesterday that is intended to help Colorado recover from the 2002 Hayman Fire, the worst in Colorado's recorded history, the Aspen Times reports. [...]
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    Fetched: September 29, 2009, 2:02pm EDT

  • Water Board awards more than $5 million in loans and grants

    The Colorado Water Conservation Board has awarded $3.3 million to 14 projects intended to help Colorado communities identify and meet critical water supply needs. The grant awards, which were made from the CWCB’s Water Supply Reserve Account program, were announced at its September meeting in Steamboat Springs. The board also ... [...]
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    Fetched: September 24, 2009, 1:19pm EDT

  • No annexation plans for Pinon Canyon, Army says

    The Army has no plans for Ft. Carson to "annex" the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site in southeastern Colorado, Army lawyers said yesterday, according to the Pueblo Chieftain. Opposition group Not 1 More Acre! had uncovered the annexation plan in documents received as part of a Freedom of Information Act request, [...]
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    Fetched: September 24, 2009, 1:19pm EDT

  • Low prices stall gas drilling

    Natural gas prices are at about $3.25 per million British Thermal Units, about $1.25 to $2.75 too low for many gas drillers to economically operate their rigs in Colorado's Piceance Basin, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports. [...]
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    Fetched: September 22, 2009, 5:03pm EDT

  • Gas wells proposed near Paonia

    SG Interests I Ltd. is proposing to drill as many as 150 new wells, including up to five water disposal wells, from 49 well pads on federal leases near Paonia. Some will be coalbed methane wells with a spacing of 320 acres per well. If multiple natural gas producing zones [...]
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    Fetched: September 21, 2009, 4:03pm EDT

  • Prescribed burns planned for Mesa County

    Federal fire officials from the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit are planning several prescribed burns this fall in Mesa County in an effort to reduce hazardous fuels and improve wildlife habitat. Crews from the Bureau of Land Management and the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests will be [...]
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    Fetched: September 18, 2009, 2:20pm EDT

  • Regulations could hamper natural gas industry, researcher says

    At the Mesa State College Energy Management Symposium yesterday in Grand Junction, energy trend researcher Porter Bennett warned that Colorado's new oil and gas regulations could put the state at a disadvantage compared with other natural gas-rich states such as Pennsylvania and Louisiana, the Daily Sentinel reports. [...]
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    Fetched: September 18, 2009, 2:20pm EDT

  • BuRec announces Colorado River Basin study

    At a meeting yesterday in New Mexico of Colorado River stakeholders, Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael Connor announced that his agency would study the Colorado River Basin over the next two years as part of the agency's conservation initiative, the Associated Press reports. The Colorado basin is one of three [...]
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    Fetched: September 18, 2009, 2:20pm EDT

  • Recovery funds fuel study of carbon sequestration in northwest Colorado

    The Energy Department has awarded $3.8 million in Recovery Act funds for a research project that will investigate the suitability of geologic formations deep under northwestern Colorado for long-term sequestration of carbon dioxide, Gov. Bill Ritter (D) announced yesterday. The research project, “Characterization of Most Promising Sequestration Formations in the Rocky [...]
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    Fetched: September 18, 2009, 2:20pm EDT

  • BLM to finalize rules for Gunnison Gorge conservation area

    The Bureau of Land Managment's Uncompahgre field office is preparing to finalize rules for use of the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area and surrounding recreation areas. The rules were developed by the Uncompahgre field office during the four-year planning process for the Gunnison Gorge resource management plan. “These rules will [...]
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    Fetched: September 17, 2009, 8:19am EDT

  • Pinon Canyon expansion opponents concerned about possible annexation plans

    Opponents of Pentagon plans to expand the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site in southeastern Colorado yesterday filed a request with the Justice Department seeking confirmation that the Army will cease all activity connected to the expansion in compliance with a federal court decision issued last week. The request comes after opposition group [...]
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    Fetched: September 17, 2009, 8:19am EDT

  • Company to test wind energy potential on Palisade’s Horse Mountain

    Wazee Energy LLC is considering developing a wind farm on public lands in the Horse Mountain area near Palisade. The Bureau of Land Management has approved a right of way that would allow Wazee Energy to erect up to four towers about 50 meters high over the next year. Wazee [...]
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    Fetched: September 15, 2009, 4:03pm EDT

  • Rocky Mountain National Park hosts ‘fungal foray’

    Rocky Mountain National Park is scheduled to host its second annual "mycoblitz" on Friday and Saturday, a collaborative effort with the Colorado Mycological Society to survey the park’s fungi. Park officials said last year's survey, held in August, significantly increased the known number of mushrooms that grow in the park. [...]
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    Fetched: September 15, 2009, 1:19pm EDT

  • Study finds intersex fish in Yampa River

    A U.S. Geological Survey study of nine river basins, including the Colorado and Rio Grande, found that 70 percent of male bass in the Yampa River exhibited female characteristics, the Denver Post reports. [...]
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    Fetched: September 15, 2009, 1:19pm EDT

  • Wildlife agency rethinks bear rules after Aspen break-ins

    The Colorado Department of Wildlife's "two strikes" nuisance policy, under which officials relocate bears after their first infraction and euthanize them after their second, has resulted in the euthanization of a record 11 "problem" bears between Basalt and Aspen this year, a record that has created an outcry in Aspen [...]
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    Fetched: September 14, 2009, 1:01pm EDT

  • Interior official to address Colorado River District meeting

    Anne Castle, who was recently confirmed as assistant secretary of the Interior Department, will be the keynote speaker at the Colorado River District’s annual water seminar next Friday at the Two Rivers Convention Center in Grand Junction. Castle oversees the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Geological Service, both [...]
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    Fetched: September 11, 2009, 9:19am EDT

  • Pinon Canyon study found lacking

    A federal judge has ruled that the Army's 2007 environmental analysis of its plan to train more troops at the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site in southeastern Colorado was flawed, giving a boost to ranchers there who have been fighting the expansion plans, the Pueblo Chieftain reports. [...]
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    Fetched: September 10, 2009, 6:01pm EDT
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