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A new travel plan could close hundreds of miles of Moab’s desert roads. Is it needed conservation, or government overreach?

October 13, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ From several thousand feet above, the winding network of roads and trails that twist and divide sections of Gemini Bridges and Labyrinth Canyon in southern Utah are hard to miss. Roughly 98% of the area is within a half mile of a designated road.But by Sept. 30, the fate of those roads, ...
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Letter: There are great hurdles to being able to successfully meter all irrigation water

October 11, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake is photographed Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, from an aerial tour provided by EcoFlight. Among the recent ideas for saving the Great Salt Lake is the installation of meters on all irrigation water use. This can be an important ...
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Friends of Scotchman Peaks highlights proposed wilderness area with flyovers

October 10, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The proposed Scotchman Peaks Wilderness area would encompass 88,000 miles of mountain and forest.Photo by LAUREN REICHENBACH As part of an effort to highlight their campaign, the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness partnered with Colorado-based Ecoflight to offer a flight over the Sandpoint, Lake Pend Oreille and Clark Fork areas in Idaho ...
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BLM’s Labyrinth Rims travel plan closes 28% of OHV routes

October 4, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Under a newly-released travel management plan, nearly a third of off-highway vehicle (OHV) routes in the swath of Grand County near Labyrinth Canyon will be closed, per the Bureau of Land Management’s Labyrinth Rims/Gemini Bridges Travel Management Plan, which was released Sept. 28. The Labyrinth Rims/Gemini Bridges Travel Plan encompasses 300,000 acres ...
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Public-land recreation management near Moab gets an overhaul

September 29, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ BLM releases new high-profile travel plan for Labyrinth Canyon area. On Thursday, the Bureau of Land Management released a new travel management plan for the Labyrinth Rims/Gemini Bridges area near Moab, Utah. The plan, which covers more than 300,000 acres, protects wildlife habitat and cultural resources while still permitting motorized recreation on over 800 ...
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State regulators could approve coal plant settlement, sending $115M back to New Mexicans

September 21, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Public can catch the meeting online or in person  The San Juan Generating Station, before it was fully decommissioned in 2022. (Photo courtesy of San Juan Citizens Alliance and EcoFlight / Creative Commons) Public Regulation Commissioners could approve a total of $115 million in refunds for those who get power from the Public Service Company ...
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Here’s what makes the Great Salt Lake special, and why it’s in trouble

September 20, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake is photographed Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, from an aerial tour provided by EcoFlight. | Sep. 20, 2023, 6:00 a.m. The Great Salt Lake is one of the unique landmarks in the west. But it has been in a long-term decline for decades. The Great Salt Lake is one ...
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Agencies seek feedback on Rifle pipeline project, environmentalists concerned

September 7, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Halle Zander/Aspen Public RadioNatural gas drilling sites are connected by winding roads south of Rifle. The West Mamm Creek Pipeline Project, if approved, would connect existing oil and gas infrastructure with six to eight-inch pipelines and support future development. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are ...
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Captain’s Blog – September 2023 A Grand Protection, Ancestral Footprints National Monument

September 7, 2023 Captain's Blog No Comments
Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 7 in the month September, Earth Calendar year 2023. The scene is set: a dory, emerging from the upper Granite Gorge and the ten consecutive 25’ waves of Hermit Falls on the Colorado River, in the grandest of Canyons.We drifted gently into the eddy angling for a small beach as ...
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Environmental experts discuss dangers of methane flaring in Texas

August 10, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ SAN ANTONIO — A ninth-generation Tejana, Virginia Palacios of Commission Shift knows the Eagle Ford shale basin well. Thanks to a lift from EcoFlight and assistance from the Environmental Defense Fund, the executive director got a bird’s-eye briefing of the ongoing massive risk-reward conversation. “It’s important as Texans to protect our way of ...
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