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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...