Original Post ➡️ Camp Hale from an EcoFlight flyover on Aug. 9, 2016 (Kristin Kenney Williams photo). The Colorado Snowsports Museum & Hall of Fame in Vail will host a rally in support of the proposed Camp Hale National Monument tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 24 at 2:30 p.m.) on National Public Lands Day. More details below. U.S. Sen. ...

Sens. Bennet, Hickenlooper request protection for World War II training ground Original Post ➡️ A view of Camp Hale in Colorado. (Courtesy of EcoFlight)Courtesy of EcoFlight The three Republican U.S. representatives from Colorado urged President Joe Biden in a letter dated Thursday against using his authority to designate land named in the stalled Colorado Outdoor ...

Original Post ➡️ The Priest River winds back and forth Aug. 31 in North Idaho. (Colin Tiernan/The Spokesman-Review) I go hiking nearly every summer weekend, and nearly every one of those hikes reaches its literal and metaphorical high point atop a Pacific Northwest mountain. Mountaintops mean views. Views of snowy peaks and aquamarine lakes. Dark ...

Original Post ➡️ For more than a decade, tribal nations, scientists and diplomats spanning the U.S.-Canada border have lobbied for a closer examination of the contaminants spilling into their shared watershed from British Columbia coal mines. As that pressure intensifies, plans are underway for a sprawling coal-mine expansion in B.C. Elkview Operations, one of Teck ...

Original Post ➡️ SPARWOOD, British Columbia — Scientists, tribal officials, regulators and environmentalists concerned about contamination from Canadian coal mines whose runoff flows into the United States usually focus on the Kootenai River and border-straddling Lake Koocanusa.  But on Tuesday they took to the sky, observing from 10,000 feet the open-pit, mountaintop-removal coal mines operated by ...