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Water data from Pinyon Plain Mine shows spike in heavy metals

August 20, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Courtesy | Bruce Gordon, EcoflightThe Pinyon Plain Mine, formerly the Canyon Mine, sits on the Kaibab National Forest, south of the Grand Canyon, near the Havasupai Tribe’s sacred mountain, Red Butte. WINDOW ROCK – The Pinyon Plain Mine poses a risk to the groundwater systems, according to the Grand Canyon Trust.With over 9 ...
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What Conservation Coalitions Have Learned from an Aspen Tree

August 15, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ A “rag-tag” group of stakeholders garnered protections this year for a vast aspen grove on Colorado’s Kebler Pass. Other groups across the West are using their approach to build alliances across the political spectrum. More than 47,000 aspen trees, all connected by a single root system, make up the Kebler Pass aspen ...
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Captain’s Blog – August 2024 Beartooth Absarokas – the wildest of waterways

August 15, 2024 Captain's Blog No Comments
Signup to receive Bruce’s monthly Captain’s Blog Starship 1XE, Day 15 in the month August, Earth Calendar year 2024. I have traveled near and far and being a mountain man back in the day, I developed a deep awe for the special landscapes where tectonic plates collide and override each other. The Beartooths are just ...
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KVNF Regional Newscast: August 15, 2024

August 15, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post: Listen to the Story ➡️ EcoFlight, piloted by Bruce Gordon, prepares for take off from the North Fork Valley Airport near Paonia, Colorado FEATURE: Citizen’s for a Health Community and EcoFlight recently took 10 flights over the North Fork Valley and Grand Mesa to view low to high developmental potential areas for oil and ...
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KVNF Regional Newscast: August 15, 2024

August 15, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post: Listen to the Newscast ➡️ EcoFlight, piloted by Bruce Gordon, prepares for take off from the North Fork Valley Airport near Paonia, Colorado FEATURE: Citizen’s for a Health Community and EcoFlight recently took 10 flights over the North Fork Valley and Grand Mesa to view low to high developmental potential areas for oil and ...
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Uranium trucking to Utah across the Navajo Nation halts under deal brokered by Arizona governor

August 2, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original post ➡️ Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said her office has been working with uranium company Energy Fuels Inc. since Tuesday night, after the Navajo Nation attempted to stop the first truckloads. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) White Mesa Mill just south of Blanding on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. A truck crossing the ...
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‘They snuck through’: Tribes condemn shipment of uranium material through their lands

July 31, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ An aerial view of the Pinyon Plain Mine in Arizona, located near the Grand Canyon and near Red Butte, a sacred site of the Havasupai Tribe. Photo by Bruce Gordon / Ecoflight Tribal leaders are condemning the primary producer of uranium in the United States for transporting hazardous materials through their territories ...
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Possible lighting strike causes broadcasting outage in Crystal River Valley

July 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Repair team helicopters in to fix damaged telecommunications tower The Crystal River valley as seen through EcoFlight in May 2022. Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times Much of the Crystal River Valley is without broadband and public safety services after an apparent lightning strike over the weekend knocked out a Pitkin County Telecommunications tower ...
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Coal Giant Arch Resources To Keep Shrinking Wyoming ‘Operational Footprint’

July 25, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Arch Resources, the second largest coal producer in Wyoming, reported Thursday that it plans to keep shrinking its “operational footprint” in Wyoming’s energy-rich Powder River Basin. Its end-goal is the “eventual closure” of its Wyoming mines. An aerial view of the Coal Creek mine about 30 miles southeast of Gillette. (Courtesy Ecoflight) ...
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Dust pollution? Here’s how the Office of the Great Salt Lake plans to help

July 22, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ An aerial view of the Great Salt Lake taken from an EcoFlight plane on April 9, 2024. (credit: Kade Garner/KTVX) SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — After a recent meeting with experts in the field, the Office of the Great Lake has released a plan to combat the urgent issue of dust pollution ...
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