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Sopris from above: New perspectives on water solutions

May 31, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Opinion by Stephanie DunganSnowpack on top of Colorado’s Mt. Sopris shines bright white in the morning sunshine. Often, I have admired her grandeur from the ground, but I’ve never seen her from above. Looking down on this peak from a Cessna 210, it is clear to see that this mountain — as ...
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Colorado Wildlands project aims to conserve Dolores River

May 25, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Among other things, Colorado is known for its beautiful landscapes and natural features including the Dolores River surrounded by breathtaking canyons. Scott Braden, director of the Colorado Wildlands Project, and pilot Gary Kraft of Eco Flight invited me on an aerial tour over the Dolores River area while Scott ...
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A river in the spotlight: Dolores focus of film, legislation, renewed recreation

May 24, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Dolores River is having a moment.It’s a moment that advocates are hoping will grow into something more permanent in the form of protections for the waterway and the corridor it travels.Last year bipartisan backing, from U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, both Colorado Democrats, and U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert, Ken ...
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Colorado attorney general meets with stakeholders in Durango on Gold King Mine settlement spending

May 22, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Goal was to explore how best to leverage funds Attorney General Phil Weiser met with community stakeholders in Durango on Thursday to discuss how to spend settlement funds to remediate environmental damages in and around the Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund site, as seen here on a 2016 Ecoflight. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald ...
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La conexión alimenta la conservación ambiental

May 18, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Estudiantes de Basalt High School del Programa de Desarrollo de la Lengua Inglesa, se acercan temerosamente a la pequeña avioneta con el piloto Gary Kraft, preparándose para dar un tour sobre el Thompson Divide y Crystal River. Foto por Vanessa Porras Cuando los estudiantes de Basalt High School entraron al edificio de ...
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Idaho Sen. Risch grills Haaland on Lava Ridge: ‘Don’t do it!’

May 5, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Minidoka National Historic Site is seen beside the Millner-Gooding Canal during an EcoFlight tour on June 13, 2022. The Lava Ridge Wind Project, if approved, would impede on the site’s horizon. Drew Nash, Times-News File Photo. When it was Idaho Sen. Jim Risch’s turn to address Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on ...
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‘It was fantastic.’ Pilot revels in Great Salt Lake’s wonders

May 5, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Aerial tour by EcoFlight showcases uniqueness of Utah’s saline lake The railroad causeway is breached on the Great Salt Lake as photographed on Wednesday, May 3, 2023.Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News Pilot Gary Kraft has flown over the Great Salt Lake at 15,000 feet, but this week was a different experience.At an ...
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Great Salt Lake experts take to the sky to view lake’s recent growth

May 3, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ This season’s record snowpack means good news for the Great Salt Lake. It has already risen a few feet, and the runoff has barely just started. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Great Salt Lake shows signs of improvement on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, near the outflow of the Weber ...
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Community gathering gauges public sentiment on Crystal River protection

April 28, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Crystal River valley as seen through EcoFlight in May 2022.Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times Tucked in the Marble outpost of the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District, more than 130 community members from Aspen to Marble and beyond gathered to discuss the future of the Crystal River. Thursday’s meeting was the first of ...
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Aerial tour of Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire demonstrates scope of damage

April 5, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The burn scar of the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire in the distance, captured during an aerial tour on Wednesday, April 5. (Chancey Bush/Albuquerque Journal) SANTA FE — Ralph Vigil called it surreal and devastating.From thousands of feet in the air Wednesday, he peered out the window of a Cessna single-engine airplane to ...
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