Original Post ➡️ A new rule adopted by the BLM will give the agency the ability to place conservation on equal footing with other uses Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Existing gas and oil development near the Roan Plateau can be seen from an EcoFlight plane on June 25, 2018 near De Beque. On April ...

Original Post ➡️  A May 2023 view of wildfire smoke from Canada cloaking the Black Hills. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight, via EcoFlight) The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources issued an air quality alert Monday for areas of South Dakota where smoke from wildfires in Canada has settled.The alert is in effect through ...

Original Post ➡️ Speakers at a three-day forum expressed hope for the lake’s future, and listed the things Utahns can do that others haven’t to protect and sustain the Great Salt Lake. (Megan Banta | The Salt Lake Tribune) Fremont Island during a flyover of the Great Salt Lake with EcoFlight on Tuesday, April 9, ...

Original Post ➡️ Local coalitions are urging the president to meet his administration’s conservation goals and fight the climate and biodiversity crises by creating new national monuments. But even some locals who want to see such lands saved don’t want them protected like that. OWYHEE CANYONLANDS, Ore.—Drive 50 miles from Boise, Idaho, past the suburbs, ...

Original Post ➡️ NATURITA, Colo. (KREX) – Residents of the small town of Naturita gave Sen. John Hickenlooper an ear full of concerns about the Dolores National Monument proposal.Now let’s hand the microphone to the advocates.Scott Braden, project director of Colorado Wildlands, tells Western Slope Now Protect the Dolores, a coalition of conservation, community and business groups, ...

Original Post ➡️ An aerial view of the San Gabriel Mountains from an EcoFlight tour of the terrain, April 17. (SFVS/el Sol Photo/Semantha Raquel Norris) SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS (CNS) – The San Gabriel Mountains National Monument will be expanded in a proclamation signed by President Joe Biden today. It is part of the White House ...