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Captain’s Blog – August 2023 What do marijuana taxes and rural roads have in common?

August 3, 2023 Captain's Blog No Comments

Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 3 in the month August, Earth Calendar year 2023. Governor Gianforte of Montana, he of body-slamming-a-reporter infamy, recently faced harsh feedback from his own party. Was the Governor becoming green in terms of public lands in his own state? Not really. In fact the other “green”(ie. marijuana) was the reason for ...

KVNF Regional Newscast: July 26, 2023

July 26, 2023 News & Media No Comments

Original Post: Listen to the Newscast Ecoflight in North Fork Valley showing evaporation ponds and oil pads. Governor Jared Polis has extended a disaster emergency over severe weather.He made the official declaration Monday after he verbally announced the emergency status last week. It covers areas that were hit hard by last month’s summer storms.It originally ...

After long wait, money starts to roll out for former employees of shuttered power plant

July 21, 2023 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ (Photo courtesy of San Juan Citizens Alliance and EcoFlight / Creative Commons) The New Mexico Legislature made changes this year to the state’s Energy Transition Act in an effort to speed up funding and job training opportunities for former employees of the San Juan Generating Station and coal mine in Farmington.Some of ...

Yampa River is a ‘roller coaster’ ride as the West replenishes its reservoirs

July 13, 2023 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ The Yampa River bends around Steamboat Rock near its confluence with the Green River on May 19, 2023. The federal government once proposed flooding this area to create a reservoir in the 1950s, eventually opting to create Lake Powell instead. (Photo by Alex Hager/EcoFlight/KUNC) Colorado’s Yampa River is the highest it’s been ...

Local conservation advocates take to the skies over Roaring Fork Valley

July 3, 2023 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ Ecoflight pilot Gary Kraft, left, Wilderness Workshop advocacy director Erin Riccio and Colorado Rep. Elizabeth Velasco posed together on Thursday after a flight from Aspen to Rifle to see western Colorado’s public lands from above. Megan Webber/Aspen Daily News A new rule proposed by the Bureau of Land Management would put conservation on ...

Conservation conversations in the cockpit:

June 28, 2023 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ Restoring healthy riverscapes in Taylor ParkUp in the skies at 2,000 feet, a group of local conservationists relished the lush, vibrant green landscape of Taylor Park below. It’s not every day they get to see their conservation and restoration efforts from a bird’s eye view, or rather, a plane’s eye view. The unique opportunity ...

Conservation from the sky

June 21, 2023 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ EcoFlight traces boundary lines of Thompson Divide mineral withdrawal proposal Julie Nania and Kestrel Kunz look out of the window of the plane. (Photo by Bella Biondini) As the small plane left the runway, the Gunnison Valley gave way into a mosaic of wet meadows and brilliant green patches of aspen that ...

Should a marijuana tax pay for Montana’s roads? Counties sue for a piece of the revenue

June 13, 2023 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ An aerial view of a small section of the 550 miles of rural roads by Petroleum County. David Murray Marijuana, road maintenance and access to public lands. It’s an odd intersection of divergent political interests, yet they’ve been brought together in opposition to a questionable veto by Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte to ...

View from above: Flights over Upper Klamath Lake show off tributaries

June 6, 2023 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ It’s one thing to drive back roads to get a sense of Upper Klamath Lake and, even more, the tributaries that feed it.But it’s far more impacting to see the region’s expansive landscape from the air, as a fortunate few did Tuesday, June 6.“It did impact me when I saw it from ...