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Original Post ➡️  (Photo courtesy of San Juan Citizens Alliance and EcoFlight / Creative Commons) The New Mexico Legislature made changes this year to the state’s Energy Transition Act in an effort to speed up funding and job training opportunities for former employees of the San Juan Generating Station and coal mine in Farmington.Some of ...
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Original Post ➡️ The Yampa River bends around Steamboat Rock near its confluence with the Green River on May 19, 2023. The federal government once proposed flooding this area to create a reservoir in the 1950s, eventually opting to create Lake Powell instead. (Photo by Alex Hager/EcoFlight/KUNC) Colorado’s Yampa River is the highest it’s been ...
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Original Post ➡️ Ecoflight pilot Gary Kraft, left, Wilderness Workshop advocacy director Erin Riccio and Colorado Rep. Elizabeth Velasco posed together on Thursday after a flight from Aspen to Rifle to see western Colorado’s public lands from above. Megan Webber/Aspen Daily News A new rule proposed by the Bureau of Land Management would put conservation on ...
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Original Post ➡️ Restoring healthy riverscapes in Taylor ParkUp in the skies at 2,000 feet, a group of local conservationists relished the lush, vibrant green landscape of Taylor Park below. It’s not every day they get to see their conservation and restoration efforts from a bird’s eye view, or rather, a plane’s eye view. The unique opportunity ...
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Original Post ➡️ EcoFlight traces boundary lines of Thompson Divide mineral withdrawal proposal Julie Nania and Kestrel Kunz look out of the window of the plane. (Photo by Bella Biondini) As the small plane left the runway, the Gunnison Valley gave way into a mosaic of wet meadows and brilliant green patches of aspen that ...
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Original Post ➡️ An aerial view of a small section of the 550 miles of rural roads by Petroleum County. David Murray Marijuana, road maintenance and access to public lands. It’s an odd intersection of divergent political interests, yet they’ve been brought together in opposition to a questionable veto by Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte to ...
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Original Post ➡️ It’s one thing to drive back roads to get a sense of Upper Klamath Lake and, even more, the tributaries that feed it.But it’s far more impacting to see the region’s expansive landscape from the air, as a fortunate few did Tuesday, June 6.“It did impact me when I saw it from ...
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Original Post ➡️ Opinion by Stephanie DunganSnowpack on top of Colorado’s Mt. Sopris shines bright white in the morning sunshine. Often, I have admired her grandeur from the ground, but I’ve never seen her from above. Looking down on this peak from a Cessna 210, it is clear to see that this mountain — as ...
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Original Post ➡️ GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Among other things, Colorado is known for its beautiful landscapes and natural features including the Dolores River surrounded by breathtaking canyons. Scott Braden, director of the Colorado Wildlands Project, and pilot Gary Kraft of Eco Flight invited me on an aerial tour over the Dolores River area while Scott ...
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Original Post ➡️ The Dolores River is having a moment.It’s a moment that advocates are hoping will grow into something more permanent in the form of protections for the waterway and the corridor it travels.Last year bipartisan backing, from U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, both Colorado Democrats, and U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert, Ken ...
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