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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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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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