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Original Post ➡️ A view of Marble, looking up valley, from an EcoFlight. EcoFlight/Courtesy photo EcoFlight received a $35,160 grant from the Pitkin County Healthy Rivers and Streams board in September for their continued overflights of the Crystal River and leadership of the Wild and Scenic Subcommittee.The subcommittee will continue to work toward a Wild ...
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Original Post ➡️ Los Osos crowds up against the Morro Bay Estuary with Hollister Peak in background. The Northern Chumash Tribal Council organized an aerial tour of lands bordering the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary on Sept. 18, 2024. The flight was sponsored by EcoFlight, a nonprofit dedicated to appreciation of the environment. DAVID MIDDLECAMP ...
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Original Post ➡️ A May 2023 aerial view of the Wharf Mine near Lead. (Courtesy of EcoFlight) A state board approved financial assurance increases during a teleconference meeting Thursday for the operator of South Dakota’s only active, large-scale gold mine. The Board of Minerals and Environment decided to increase the assurance — such as bonds posted by insurance ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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