Original Post: Listen to the story ➡️ A view of the Santa Cruz River looking north during an EcoFlight aerial tour in Tucson on Sept. 24. Mamta Popat, Arizona Daily Star Like water rolling downhill, momentum is building behind a proposed national wildlife refuge on the Santa Cruz River through Southern Arizona.The most recent show ...

Original Post ➡️ Eyes in the Sky Look Down on Soon-to-Be Sanctuary from Santa Barbara to Cambria On the clear afternoon of Tuesday, September 17, I squeezed into a small aircraft at the Central Coast Jet Center. As we took off, I watched through the window as the world turned into sliding frames of land, ...

Original Post ➡️ Mike Quigley, the state director for The Wilderness Society, discusses the proposal for a Urban National Wildlife Refuge in Pima and Santa Cruz counties during a flyover of the Santa Cruz River. Photo by Daisy Zavala Magaña EcoFlight, a non-profit educating about the environment through flight excursions, offers a small group a ...

Original Post ➡️ The members of a self-described ragtag group had little in common, but their campaign could serve as model for future environmental efforts. The Bush administration started issuing oil and gas leases in the Thompson Divide area in the early 2000s in an effort to expand production on public lands. The drilling leases ...

Original Post ➡️ Potential site may have minerals key to climate change fight. Environmental groups worry exploration could have unforeseen consequences.  The CuMo Exploration Project aims to search for minerals that could lead to a mine years later in mountains outside Boise. (Kyle Pfannenstiel/Idaho Capital Sun) For now, the CuMo Exploration Project is just that: ...

Original Post ➡️ EcoFlight founder and pilot Bruce Gordon navigates his aircraft toward the runway on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, at Aspen/Pitkin County Airport. Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times Eight Colorado airports around the state are earmarked to receive millions of dollars from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to support infrastructural needs, the offices of Colorado ...

Original Post ➡️ Nonprofit EcoFlight showed passengers on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024, the aerial views near the Continental Divide Trail that passes through Routt County as the approximate midway point of the more than 3,030-mile national scenic trail stretching from Canada to Mexico.Suzie Romig/Steamboat Pilot & Today The reroute of the Muddy Pass Gap on ...