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Groups push to classify Santa Cruz River as urban national refuge

September 26, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original post ➡️ EcoFlight, a non-profit educating about the environment through flight excursions, offers a small group a flyover of the Santa Cruz River. Photo by Daisy Zavala Magaña Pilot Bruce Gordon steered a small Cessna plane over a portion of the 200-mile Santa Cruz River on Tuesday morning, offering glimpses of the riparian corridor ...
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EcoFlight Views: Fall 2024

September 26, 2024 Newsletter No Comments
View EcoFlight’s Fall 2024 Newsletter Use the link above for the online version with a better viewing experience.
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This proposed mine near Boise would extract our wealth and endanger our environment | Opinion

September 25, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The area where Idaho Copper wants to begin a copper mine exploration project. The mine would be located near Idaho City and Grimes Creek. Idaho Copper seeks to gain approval from the U.S. Forest Service through a CuMo Mine Exploration Project. EcoFlight On Sept. 19, the Forest Service published a draft decision, ...
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How Colorado Cowboys and Conservationists Joined Forces to Stop Drilling

September 18, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The members of a self-described ragtag group had little in common, but their campaign could serve as model for future environmental efforts. The Bush administration started issuing oil and gas leases in the Thompson Divide area in the early 2000s in an effort to expand production on public lands. The drilling leases ...
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Havasupai Tribe continues to oppose controversial uranium mine as Energy Fuels assures safety

September 17, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original post ➡️ PHOENIX – Carletta Tilousi was a young girl when she first heard about possible uranium mining near her home of Supai. Deep within the canyons near the Grand Canyon’s South Rim, this is where the Havasupai people reside.From the day they were contacted about it, the Havasupai were resistant to uranium mining ...
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CuMo exploration project could become an Idaho mine. Environmental groups are worried.

September 13, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Potential site may have minerals key to climate change fight. Environmental groups worry exploration could have unforeseen consequences.  The CuMo Exploration Project aims to search for minerals that could lead to a mine years later in mountains outside Boise. (Kyle Pfannenstiel/Idaho Capital Sun) For now, the CuMo Exploration Project is just that: ...
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Momentum builds for wildlife crossings across northwest Colorado after project near Summit County shows success

September 11, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Early morning ECO Flight demonstrates need for expansion of safe crossings for deer, elk and other animals Original post ➡️ A highway cuts through the Roaring Fork Valley on Wednesday, Sept, 4, 2024. EcoFlight led an educational flight for media and local government officials to show how manmade structures disrupt wildlife migration corridors and habitat ...
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Aspen-Pitkin County Airport misses out on round of federal funding

September 6, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ 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 Eight Colorado airports around the state are earmarked to receive millions of dollars from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to support infrastructural needs, the offices of Colorado ...
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Continental Divide Trail Coalition offers new tools for navigating Muddy Pass Gap

September 1, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Nonprofit EcoFlight showed passengers on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024, the aerial views near the Continental Divide Trail that passes through Routt County as the approximate midway point of the more than 3,030-mile national scenic trail stretching from Canada to Mexico.Suzie Romig/Steamboat Pilot & Today The reroute of the Muddy Pass Gap on ...
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Another one bites the dust

August 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ San Juan Generating Station goes down; energy transition moves forward The smokestacks at the now defunct San Juan Generating Station go down in a blaze of glory on Sat., Aug. 24. This was the final resounding death knell for the power plant 15 miles from Farmington, which ceased operation in 2022./ Photo ...
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