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Uphilling, community and a good breakfast

March 19, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Editor:On any given Friday an incredible group of people brave the elements, walk uphill and gather at the Cliffhouse on Buttermilk for a half-priced breakfast.This past Friday, we at EcoFlight were fortunate to be chosen to host the uphill. Such a beautiful morning and everywhere you looked, you saw and sensed community. ...
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Buddy Program students talk land conservation during EcoFlight

March 12, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ EcoFlight founder Bruce Gordon explains land and water conservation rights in the Roaring Fork Valley while flying past Mt. Sopris.Lucy Peterson/The Aspen Times Two months after hundreds of community members submitted comments supporting the U.S. Forest Service’s mineral withdrawal of the Thompson Divide, high school students with the Buddy Program flew above ...
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New report hopes to spur action on wildlife crossings

March 11, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Roads cuts through the open space of Paradise Valley as seen from an EcoFlight to showcase potential wildlife crossings in June. Isabel Hicks/ Chronicle Yellowstone Safe Passages, a coalition dedicated to improving the safety of people and wildlife on Montana Highway 89, published a comprehensive assessment of wildlife-vehicle collisions along the stretch between Livingston ...
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Thanks, BLM, for Labyrinth Canyon travel plan

March 5, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Editor,The Feb. 8 edition of The Times-Independent included an article with the line, “It’s painful to be discriminated against … because people have a stereotype of what off-roaders are or do.”  (“Moab’s off-road community reflects on change and responsibility,” The Times-Independent, Feb. 8.) Under the BLM’s new travel management plan, the roads ...
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Calif. residents express concerns over Klamath dam removals

March 4, 2024 News & Media No Comments
At Siskiyou County meeting, water quality, loss of lakes were top issues Copco Lake, as it appeared before Copco 1 dam was breached last month and the reservoir was drained.EcoFlight, Klamath River Renewal Corporation HORNBROOK, Calif. — Dozens of people came to the microphone Tuesday during a meeting with Siskiyou County officials to express their ...
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As Production Slows, Arch Considers Sale of Wyoming Coal Mines

March 4, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The potential sale of thermal coal assets by Arch Resources isn’t the first time the St. Louis company has talked about getting rid of its thermal coal assets in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, which continue to struggle with production. An aerial view of Black Thunder Coal mine in northeast Wyoming. It’s owned ...
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Tribal members discuss impacts of uranium industry

March 1, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Testimony focuses on rights to life, health, culture, environment and water The white Mesa Uranium Mill on Saturday as seen from EcoFlight on Oct. 22, 2022. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald) The inter-American Commission on Human Rights heard about the contamination of Native American lands by uranium extraction and milling during a thematic hearing ...
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Without abdicating authority, EPA responds to Butler criticism

February 22, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Water quality expert left role in November citing lack of engagement by federal agency The Gladstone water treatment facility at the heart of the Bonita Peak Mining District visible from a 2016 EcoFlight. The Environmental Protection Agency is responding to criticisms leveled by the former chairman of the BPMD Community Advisory Group, ...
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Satellite SBCD office to aid region in shift from coal

February 22, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post FILE PHOTO – Tri-State’s Craig Station power plant, seen here in January 2023.Amber Delay/Craig Press State Coal Transition Community funding will be used to create a Northwest Small Business Development Center satellite office to serve Moffat, Rio Blanco and Routt counties as local communities in that region look to diversify their economies.According to ...
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South Dakota was tardy with a gold tax. Can it afford to sleep on lithium?

February 16, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post A May 2023 aerial view of Lead’s Open Cut, which was part of the Homestake Mine. Although gold was discovered in the Black Hills in the 1870s, South Dakota didn’t impose a tax on gold mining until 1935. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight, via EcoFlight) When lawmakers convened in Pierre during the depths of ...
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