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Captain’s Blog – November 2024 Chumash Marine Sanctuary sent

November 12, 2024 Captain's Blog No Comments

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 ...

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 ...

Pilot’s Blog – April 2024 New Blood

April 11, 2024 Captain's Blog No Comments

Pilot’s Blog Starship 1XE, Day 11 in the month April, Earth Calendar year 2024. Bruce here, it’s that time of year again when we make like F-15 pilots on a scramble alert. We drop our ski equipment, drop our ice-climbing gear, shed our super heavy down parkas, and hop into our trusty aircraft to begin ...

Captain’s Blog – March 2024 Whether or not

March 8, 2024 Captain's Blog No Comments

Weather or Not Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 8 in the month March, Earth Calendar year 2024. Before I jump into this month’s Captain’s Blog, I want to invite those of you in the Roaring Fork Valley to join us on March 15th for the Friday Morning Uphill Breakfast Club at Cliffhouse!EcoFlight is hosting the Cliffhouse ...

Captain’s Blog – February 2024 Flying in the shadow of the border wall

February 8, 2024 Captain's Blog No Comments

Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 8 in the month February, Earth Calendar year 2024. Jaguars in Arizona? We told you so! After years of searching for the elusive jaguar and working to protect its habitat connectivity between northern Mexico and southern Arizona, we now have proof that jaguars indeed travel to southeastern Arizona’s remote and rugged Santa Ritas, ...

Co-Pilot Blog – The Year of 2023 in Photos

January 5, 2024 Captain's Blog No Comments

Below is a chronological selection of photos taken by EcoFlight during 2023 – the images include landscapes protected during the year, lands and watersheds deserving of protection, and showcases the incredible resilient nature of our planet. These are just a fraction of our images of 2023. They offer a chance to reflect on some of our ...

Captain’s Blog – September 2023 A Grand Protection, Ancestral Footprints National Monument

September 7, 2023 Captain's Blog No Comments

Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 7 in the month September, Earth Calendar year 2023. The scene is set: a dory, emerging from the upper Granite Gorge and the ten consecutive 25’ waves of Hermit Falls on the Colorado River, in the grandest of Canyons.We drifted gently into the eddy angling for a small beach as ...

Captain’s Blog – August 2023 What do marijuana taxes and rural roads have in common?

August 3, 2023 Captain's Blog No Comments

Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 3 in the month August, Earth Calendar year 2023. Governor Gianforte of Montana, he of body-slamming-a-reporter infamy, recently faced harsh feedback from his own party. Was the Governor becoming green in terms of public lands in his own state? Not really. In fact the other “green”(ie. marijuana) was the reason for ...

Captain’s Blog – March 2023 Weather, Water, and more Weather

March 22, 2023 Captain's Blog No Comments

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 ...