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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Captain’s Blog: December 2022 Captain’s Log Starship 1XE, Day 2 in the month December, Earth Calendar year 2022. As a veteran, I always appreciate the recognition of those who have served, and as a kind of eco-warrior, skier and climber who values our protected public lands, I am thrilled with the creation of our nation’s ...
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Captain’s Log 6094B, Day 16 in the month November, Earth Calendar year 2022. From the complexities of the largest proposed dam removal in US history to the strange politics of a mine actually supported by environmental groups, this trip to Idaho involved some turbulent topics. The trip started as most do, flying past familiar terrain ...
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