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Starship 1XE, Day 12 in the month November, Earth Calendar year 2024. It’s not often that conservation flying takes us exploring above our deep blue oceans, but through the years, we have taken some flight missions to protect our precious seas. The perspective of flying between the wild blue skies and those expansive oceans can ...
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Original Post ➡️ Approvals also include proposed rates and charges, airport layout plan The Aspen/Pitkin County Airport as seen on Wednesday, Sept, 4, 2024, from the air with EcoFlight. Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times Following a projected win for Pitkin County’s airport-related ballot question 1C, several key airport topics were up for discussion during a Wednesday meeting.Fixed-base ...
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Original Post ➡️ State leaders could direct $100 million from the sale of the coveted Kelly Parcel to Grand Teton National Park to offset federally owned acreage. A dragline works to expose coal at a Powder River Basin coal mine in July 2024. (Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile, courtesy EcoFlight) In a gambit that could see Wyoming’s 640 ...
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Original Post ➡️ Our Airport Our Vote, A Whole Lot of People for a Better Airport submit financial reports EcoFlight founder and pilot Bruce Gordon navigates his aircraft toward the runway on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, at Aspen/Pitkin County Airport.Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times Contributions and expenditures have been updated for two issue committees campaigning for ...
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Original Post: Listen here ➡️ Kori Suzuki for KPBS / California LocalMorning sunlight illuminates the proposed Kw’tsán National Monument during a flyover hosted by the Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe and Ecoflight, a conservation organization, on Oct. 16, 2024. The proposal would grant new federal protections to 390,000 acres of the Quechan Tribe’s sacred homelands along the ...
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Original Post ➡️ Residential development at the edge of the Rim of the Valley, public land that activists hope to see added to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) As our small plane flew over the San Fernando Valley, I was in awe of just how remarkable ...
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Original Post ➡️ On a clear and windless October morning, I climbed aboard a Cessna 210 plane alongside Tribal and rural community leaders, journalists, land managers, and fellow advocates to experience something extraordinary: a flight over Ash Meadows and the Amargosa Valley.EcoFlight is an organization that educates and advocates for the protection of remaining wild lands ...
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Original post ➡️  On Wednesday, I climbed aboard a six-seater plane and slipped on a noise-canceling headset in preparation for a half-hour flight out of Lone Pine Airport over the desert, to get an aerial glimpse of Conglomerate Mesa — a parcel of land steeped in controversy, sacred significance and gold. I boarded the aircraft around ...
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Original Post: Listen to the story ➡️ This week the nonprofit EcoFlight gave a group of advocates, nonprofit leaders and government representatives a bird’s eye view of the Tijuana River Valley. In other news, voters across San Diego County will decide on local tax measures this year. We learn about the tax proposals in Chula ...
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Original Post ➡️ The Tijuana River is one of America’s most endangered rivers because of pollution, according to the American Rivers 2024 report.This week the nonprofit EcoFlight gave a group of advocates, nonprofit leaders and government representatives a bird’s-eye view of the area to better understand the causes of the pollution.Ramon Chairez, with the nonprofit ...
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