Original Post ➡️ In July 2024, aerial shot depicts a load-out silo and the Black Thunder coal mine in the southern Powder River Basin. Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile, courtesy EcoFlight Federal land managers have rejected protests filed by coal mining interests — including the state of Wyoming and representatives of two of its counties — that tried ...

Original Post: Listen to the Story ➡️ In a small plane flying west out of Farmington, N.M., America’s energy transition appeared to be proceeding in an orderly fashion — a sea change measurable in megawatts, acreage and emission particle parts per million.Mike Eisenfeld of San Juan Citizens Alliance was our tour guide, his voice crackling over the ...

Original Post: Listen to the story ➡️ A view of the Santa Cruz River looking north during an EcoFlight aerial tour in Tucson on Sept. 24. Mamta Popat, Arizona Daily Star Like water rolling downhill, momentum is building behind a proposed national wildlife refuge on the Santa Cruz River through Southern Arizona.The most recent show ...

Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection Act would affect more than a third of the 1.7 million acres of federal land in Gunnison County Original post ➡️ EcoFlight pilot Pilot Bruce Gordon flies over the Thompson Creek roadless wilderness area with the Raggeds Wilderness area in the distance as he heads out to do aerial surveys of ...

Original Post ➡️ Eyes in the Sky Look Down on Soon-to-Be Sanctuary from Santa Barbara to Cambria On the clear afternoon of Tuesday, September 17, I squeezed into a small aircraft at the Central Coast Jet Center. As we took off, I watched through the window as the world turned into sliding frames of land, ...

Original Post ➡️ Mike Quigley, the state director for The Wilderness Society, discusses the proposal for a Urban National Wildlife Refuge in Pima and Santa Cruz counties during a flyover of the Santa Cruz River. Photo by Daisy Zavala Magaña EcoFlight, a non-profit educating about the environment through flight excursions, offers a small group a ...

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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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, ...

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 ...