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BLM Seeks Initial Input for September 2025 Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Colorado

November 15, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ The Arkansas Hills to the east of Salida and Tenderfoot Mountain were a potential target of development if the BLM “preferred” plan D (allowing mining development) had been selected during the Trump years. It was saved from development during a proposed Public Lands Rule review. Photo EcoFlight. The Bureau of Land Management ...

Healthy Rivers and Streams Board budget receives ‘thumbs up’ from Pitkin County commissioners

November 12, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ Board requests almost $2.6 million in 2025 A photo from the East Maroon beaver inventory in 2023.Lisa Tasker/Courtesy photo The Healthy Rivers and Streams Board presented its 2025 budget request on Thursday to Pitkin County Commissioners, receiving positive support for future projects in the Roaring Fork Valley Watershed. The board is funded by ...

Pitkin County commissioners approve proposed airport fixed-base operator lease

November 7, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ Approvals also include proposed rates and charges, airport layout plan The Aspen/Pitkin County Airport as seen on Wednesday, Sept, 4, 2024, from the air with EcoFlight. Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times Following a projected win for Pitkin County’s airport-related ballot question 1C, several key airport topics were up for discussion during a Wednesday meeting.Fixed-base ...

In gambit to save Kelly Parcel, Wyoming may OK $162M to buy federal Powder River land

November 6, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ State leaders could direct $100 million from the sale of the coveted Kelly Parcel to Grand Teton National Park to offset federally owned acreage. A dragline works to expose coal at a Powder River Basin coal mine in July 2024. (Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile, courtesy EcoFlight) In a gambit that could see Wyoming’s 640 ...

Aspen airport issue committees report thousands more dollars donated, spent prior to election

November 5, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ Our Airport Our Vote, A Whole Lot of People for a Better Airport submit financial reports 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 Contributions and expenditures have been updated for two issue committees campaigning for ...

Tribes push for 3 new national monuments across California

November 4, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post: Listen here ➡️ Kori Suzuki for KPBS / California LocalMorning sunlight illuminates the proposed Kw’tsán National Monument during a flyover hosted by the Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe and Ecoflight, a conservation organization, on Oct. 16, 2024. The proposal would grant new federal protections to 390,000 acres of the Quechan Tribe’s sacred homelands along the ...

Hanging in the air: Meditations on an aerial journey over the Amargosa River

October 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ On a clear and windless October morning, I climbed aboard a Cessna 210 plane alongside Tribal and rural community leaders, journalists, land managers, and fellow advocates to experience something extraordinary: a flight over Ash Meadows and the Amargosa Valley.EcoFlight is an organization that educates and advocates for the protection of remaining wild lands ...

Residents of White Mesa say uranium mill is polluting their water

October 7, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ This April 11, 2015, photo provided by EcoFlight shows the White Mesa Uranium Mill near Blanding in southeastern Utah. Members of a small tribal community in Southern Utah were protesting at the capitol, saying their water is being polluted with Uranium. (Dom Smith/EcoFlight via AP) WHITE MESA, Utah — Members of White ...

Feds on track to finalize coal leasing ban despite Wyoming, industry protests

October 7, 2024 News & Media No Comments

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 ...

A coal power plant demolition serves as a poignant historical moment for the Navajo

October 5, 2024 News & Media No Comments

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 ...

BLM Seeks Initial Input for September 2025 Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Colorado

Healthy Rivers and Streams Board budget receives ‘thumbs up’ from Pitkin County commissioners

Pitkin County commissioners approve proposed airport fixed-base operator lease

In gambit to save Kelly Parcel, Wyoming may OK $162M to buy federal Powder River land

Aspen airport issue committees report thousands more dollars donated, spent prior to election

Tribes push for 3 new national monuments across California

Hanging in the air: Meditations on an aerial journey over the Amargosa River

Residents of White Mesa say uranium mill is polluting their water

Feds on track to finalize coal leasing ban despite Wyoming, industry protests

A coal power plant demolition serves as a poignant historical moment for the Navajo

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