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State board increases financial protections for Black Hills gold mine

November 21, 2024 News & Media No Comments

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 ...

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 ...

I toured L.A.’s Rim of the Valley by plane. Here’s why we need to protect it

October 31, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ Residential development at the edge of the Rim of the Valley, public land that activists hope to see added to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) As our small plane flew over the San Fernando Valley, I was in awe of just how remarkable ...

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 ...

Officials get an aerial view of the Tijuana River

October 23, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post: Listen to the story ➡️ This week the nonprofit EcoFlight gave a group of advocates, nonprofit leaders and government representatives a bird’s eye view of the Tijuana River Valley. In other news, voters across San Diego County will decide on local tax measures this year. We learn about the tax proposals in Chula ...

State board increases financial protections for Black Hills gold mine

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

I toured L.A.’s Rim of the Valley by plane. Here’s why we need to protect it

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

Officials get an aerial view of the Tijuana River

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