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Students take flight: EcoFlight teaches the importance of conservation

April 5, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) – A non-profit out of Aspen is teaching people about the importance of conservation.EcoFlight is a non-profit that takes students, politicians, and activists alike up in small single engine airplanes to experience landscapes to better understand conservation efforts.The program gives people a bird eye view of vast landscapes, ...
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EcoFlight gives a new perspective on conservation

April 5, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ GRAND JUNCTION, Colo (KREX) – Conventional wisdom says you can only view nature by walking or biking through it, but one Colorado non-profit is giving conservation a different point of view.“To really see things from a new perspective and gain some insights that I think on foot are just a little harder ...
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Captain’s Blog – March 2023 Weather, Water, and more Weather

March 22, 2023 Captain's Blog No Comments
The Lion and the Lamb Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 22 in the month March, Earth Calendar year 2023. As the equinox of March rolls around, we are awaiting the proverbial ‘lamb’ when it comes to weather. Coming in like a lion and out like a lamb is still the historical adage, but in these days of climate ...
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Historic Deal Reopens B.C. Indigenous Territory to Fracking, Promises Land Restoration

March 19, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ EcoFlight After decades of being treated as collateral damage by policy-makers and industry bent on resource extraction, the Blueberry River First Nations will have significantly more say in how extraction proceeds within its territories thanks to a watershed agreement with the British Columbia government. But the deal also means the resumption of ...
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Wilderness Workshop sues over U.S. Forest Service approval of road to large private in-holding

March 18, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ A leading opponent of the Berlaimont Estates project near Edwards wasted little time before mounting a legal challenge to a March 10 U.S. Forest Service decision approving an all-season road to the site.The Wilderness Workshop, based in Carbondale, filed suit this past week in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. to stop the road ...
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Elizabeth Velasco, Perry Will offer bipartisan support for federal Thompson Divide Withdrawal plan

March 16, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Republican state Sen. Perry Will of New Castle has joined up with Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Velasco of Glenwood Springs in issuing a bipartisan letter of support for the Thompson Divide Administrative Withdrawal that’s now under federal review.The proposed federal mineral withdrawal would administratively withdraw 225,000 acres of the Thompson Divide area south of ...
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Lava Ridge resolution advances in House

March 13, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Minidoka National Historic Site is seen beside the Milner-Gooding Canal during an EcoFlight tour Monday, June 13, 2022, out of Twin Falls. The Lava Ridge Wind Project, if allowed, would be just north of what locals call the Hunt Camp.DREW NASH, TIMES-NEWS A resolution opposing the proposed Lava Ridge wind energy ...
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Survivors and descendants of Minidoka incarceration oppose Lava Ridge

February 26, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Minidoka National Historic Site is seen beside the Milner-Gooding Canal during an EcoFlight tour June 13, 2022, out of Twin Falls. The Lava Ridge Wind Project, if allowed, would be just north of what locals call the Hunt Camp.DREW NASH, TIMES-NEWS During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive ...
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HOW NEIGHBORS IN THE BORDERLANDS FOUGHT BACK AGAINST ARIZONA GOV. DOUG DUCEY’S ILLEGAL WALL — AND WON

February 14, 2023 News & Media No Comments
The Biden administration is doing nothing to stop the environmental destruction wrought by Arizona’s construction of a shipping container wall. Original Post ➡️ Michael and Christie Brown resisted putting a barrier around their beloved desert home for years, but the nights were getting too dangerous. It was a question of safety. They needed a fence.The Browns ...
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Gov. Little, Idaho delegation share ‘deep concerns’ about Lava Ridge; Magic Valley legislators sign opposition letter

February 6, 2023 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ An EcoFlight tour flies over wind turbines Wednesday, July 21, 2021, during a Lava Ridge Wind Proposal tour flight near Buhl.TIMES-NEWS, FILE PHOTO TWIN FALLS — Idaho lawmakers are raising concerns over the proposed Lava Ridge Wind Project.Hours after six Magic Valley legislators voiced their opposition in a letter to the state’s ...
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