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Colorado attorney general meets with stakeholders in Durango on Gold King Mine settlement spending

May 22, 2023 News & Media by Reuben Schafir (The Durango Herald)

Original Post ➡️ Goal was to explore how best to leverage funds Attorney General Phil Weiser met with community stakeholders in Durango on Thursday to discuss how to spend settlement funds to remediate environmental damages in and around the Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund site, as seen here on a 2016 Ecoflight. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald ...

La conexión alimenta la conservación ambiental

May 18, 2023 News & Media

Original Post ➡️ Estudiantes de Basalt High School del Programa de Desarrollo de la Lengua Inglesa, se acercan temerosamente a la pequeña avioneta con el piloto Gary Kraft, preparándose para dar un tour sobre el Thompson Divide y Crystal River. Foto por Vanessa Porras Cuando los estudiantes de Basalt High School entraron al edificio de ...

Idaho Sen. Risch grills Haaland on Lava Ridge: ‘Don’t do it!’

May 5, 2023 News & Media by Steve Kiggins (KPVI)

Original Post ➡️ The Minidoka National Historic Site is seen beside the Millner-Gooding Canal during an EcoFlight tour on June 13, 2022. The Lava Ridge Wind Project, if approved, would impede on the site’s horizon. Drew Nash, Times-News File Photo. When it was Idaho Sen. Jim Risch’s turn to address Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on ...

‘It was fantastic.’ Pilot revels in Great Salt Lake’s wonders

May 5, 2023 News & Media

Original Post ➡️ Aerial tour by EcoFlight showcases uniqueness of Utah’s saline lake The railroad causeway is breached on the Great Salt Lake as photographed on Wednesday, May 3, 2023.Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News Pilot Gary Kraft has flown over the Great Salt Lake at 15,000 feet, but this week was a different experience.At an ...

Great Salt Lake experts take to the sky to view lake’s recent growth

May 3, 2023 News & Media by Mythili Gubbi (Fox 13 News)

Original Post ➡️ This season’s record snowpack means good news for the Great Salt Lake. It has already risen a few feet, and the runoff has barely just started. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Great Salt Lake shows signs of improvement on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, near the outflow of the Weber ...

Community gathering gauges public sentiment on Crystal River protection

April 28, 2023 News & Media by Josie Taris (The Aspen Times)

Original Post ➡️ The Crystal River valley as seen through EcoFlight in May 2022.Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times Tucked in the Marble outpost of the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District, more than 130 community members from Aspen to Marble and beyond gathered to discuss the future of the Crystal River. Thursday’s meeting was the first of ...

Aerial tour of Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire demonstrates scope of damage

April 5, 2023 News & Media by Dan McKay (Albuquerque Journal)

Original Post ➡️ The burn scar of the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire in the distance, captured during an aerial tour on Wednesday, April 5. (Chancey Bush/Albuquerque Journal) SANTA FE — Ralph Vigil called it surreal and devastating.From thousands of feet in the air Wednesday, he peered out the window of a Cessna single-engine airplane to ...

Students take flight: EcoFlight teaches the importance of conservation

April 5, 2023 News & Media by Hannah Hickman (NBC11 News)

Original Post ➡️ GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) – A non-profit out of Aspen is teaching people about the importance of conservation.EcoFlight is a non-profit that takes students, politicians, and activists alike up in small single engine airplanes to experience landscapes to better understand conservation efforts.The program gives people a bird eye view of vast landscapes, ...

EcoFlight gives a new perspective on conservation

April 5, 2023 News & Media by Michael Logerwell (WesternSlopeNow)

Original Post ➡️ GRAND JUNCTION, Colo (KREX) – Conventional wisdom says you can only view nature by walking or biking through it, but one Colorado non-profit is giving conservation a different point of view.“To really see things from a new perspective and gain some insights that I think on foot are just a little harder ...

Historic Deal Reopens B.C. Indigenous Territory to Fracking, Promises Land Restoration

March 19, 2023 News & Media by Gaye Taylor and Farida Hussain (The Energy Mix)

Original Post ➡️ EcoFlight After decades of being treated as collateral damage by policy-makers and industry bent on resource extraction, the Blueberry River First Nations will have significantly more say in how extraction proceeds within its territories thanks to a watershed agreement with the British Columbia government. But the deal also means the resumption of ...