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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...