Original Post ➡️ The Yampa River in Western Moffat County, seen here from a camera mounted on an EcoFlight plane touring Northwest Colorado with Friends of the Yampa on Feb. 4. EcoFlight/Courtesy As industries across the Western Slope continue to watch snow and water levels as the days until summer close in, the Colorado River ...

Original Post ➡️ Top priorities include ARPA fund usage, housing The city of Craig, as seen from an EcoFlight tour of the Yampa Valley with Friends of the Yampa on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Dylan Anderson/Steamboat Pilot & Today City and county leadership met together Tuesday as part of an ongoing attempt to unite the ...

Original Post ➡️ Earlier this month, EcoFlight and Friends of the Yampa flew across Northwest Colorado in a small plane with a mounted camera and took these photos hoping to educate and advocate for the river. The White River winds west out of the Flat Tops Mountains, seen here from a camera mounted on an ...

Original Post ➡️ Hayden is seen from the air during an EcoFlight tour of the Yampa Valley with Friends of the Yampa on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Hayden Town Council approved an updated development code on Thursday, Feb. 17, putting the code better in line with the town’s direction and simplifying what’s been described as ...

Original Post ➡️ For 20 years, the nonprofit EcoFlight has offered politicians and press, scientists and students the big picture of the West We all have our favorite “little-engine that could” nonprofits—the ones not on most people’s radar, not the Red Cross or UNICEF, but rather the little fellas doing enormous work. My favorite actually has little ...

Original Post ➡️ Coal Hollow Mine has been long plagued with compliance violations and nonpayment of property taxes | courtesy of EcoFlight Utah’s Coal Hollow strip mine near Alton has been shut down by state regulators after failing to provide a $13.4 million bond. State mining regulators this week shut down a southern Utah coal ...

Click for Original Post ➡️ From the town of Yampa, the Flat Tops seem like a distant wall, separating meadows from the more arid terrain to the West. But from the sky, the wilderness expands beyond the horizon with snowy ridge after snowy ridge towering over the White River National Forest. These mountains serve as ...

Original Post ➡️ The Little Colorado River (LCR) is essentially a misnomer—“little” only in title and by comparison to the Colorado River. The LCR basin is 27,000 square miles of high deserts, mesas, and mountains near the center of the Colorado Plateau. Confluence of the LCR and Colorado River; Credit: EcoFlight It’s late fall 2021 ...