Eryn Gable

• Summit County inks deal to protect land from mining

  Summit County officials signed off last week on a $900,000 deal to purchase a 129-acre mining parcel between Copper Mountain and Fremont Pass to protect it from development, the Summit Daily News reports. [...]
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  Fetched: November 30, 2009, 1:03pm EST
  

• Colorado ski resorts lack a comprehensive strategy for addressing climate change — report

  Ski resorts in Colorado and across the West showed marked improvement in environmental ratings for the third year in a row, according to an annual report released today by the Ski Area Citizens Coalition. While the scores for protecting habitat and watershed protection are weaker in Colorado than other states, Colorado [...]
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  Fetched: November 30, 2009, 1:03pm EST
  

• Feds to hold meeting on prescribed burn near Silt

  Federal fire officials will be holding a public meeting Dec. 10 at the Bureau of Land Management office in Silt about a proposed prescribed fire planned 14 miles south of Silt in Reservoir Gulch. BLM and the White River National Forest and Grand Mesa-Uncompahgre national forests are working together on [...]
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  Fetched: November 30, 2009, 11:03am EST
  

• BLM seeks comment on commercial recreation permits

  The Bureau of Land Management’s Kremmling field office is seeking public comment on nine commercial recreation permit renewal applications. The applicants include a commercial photography company and several companies that provide guided fishing and rafting trips on the Colorado River. BLM is seeking public comment regarding each applicant’s safety history, conflicts [...]
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  Fetched: November 30, 2009, 11:03am EST
  

• 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