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Support builds for Santa Cruz River refuge from Mexico to Marana

September 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post: Listen to the story ➡️ A view of the Santa Cruz River looking north during an EcoFlight aerial tour in Tucson on Sept. 24. Mamta Popat, Arizona Daily Star Like water rolling downhill, momentum is building behind a proposed national wildlife refuge on the Santa Cruz River through Southern Arizona.The most recent show ...

An Aerial View of Proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary

September 27, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ Eyes in the Sky Look Down on Soon-to-Be Sanctuary from Santa Barbara to Cambria On the clear afternoon of Tuesday, September 17, I squeezed into a small aircraft at the Central Coast Jet Center. As we took off, I watched through the window as the world turned into sliding frames of land, ...

Groups push to classify Santa Cruz River as urban national refuge

September 27, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ Mike Quigley, the state director for The Wilderness Society, discusses the proposal for a Urban National Wildlife Refuge in Pima and Santa Cruz counties during a flyover of the Santa Cruz River. Photo by Daisy Zavala Magaña EcoFlight, a non-profit educating about the environment through flight excursions, offers a small group a ...

How Colorado Cowboys and Conservationists Joined Forces to Stop Drilling

September 18, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ The members of a self-described ragtag group had little in common, but their campaign could serve as model for future environmental efforts. The Bush administration started issuing oil and gas leases in the Thompson Divide area in the early 2000s in an effort to expand production on public lands. The drilling leases ...

CuMo exploration project could become an Idaho mine. Environmental groups are worried.

September 13, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ Potential site may have minerals key to climate change fight. Environmental groups worry exploration could have unforeseen consequences. The CuMo Exploration Project aims to search for minerals that could lead to a mine years later in mountains outside Boise. (Kyle Pfannenstiel/Idaho Capital Sun) For now, the CuMo Exploration Project is just that: ...

Aspen-Pitkin County Airport misses out on round of federal funding

September 6, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ 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 Eight Colorado airports around the state are earmarked to receive millions of dollars from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to support infrastructural needs, the offices of Colorado ...

Continental Divide Trail Coalition offers new tools for navigating Muddy Pass Gap

September 1, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ Nonprofit EcoFlight showed passengers on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024, the aerial views near the Continental Divide Trail that passes through Routt County as the approximate midway point of the more than 3,030-mile national scenic trail stretching from Canada to Mexico.Suzie Romig/Steamboat Pilot & Today The reroute of the Muddy Pass Gap on ...

Another one bites the dust

August 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ San Juan Generating Station goes down; energy transition moves forward The smokestacks at the now defunct San Juan Generating Station go down in a blaze of glory on Sat., Aug. 24. This was the final resounding death knell for the power plant 15 miles from Farmington, which ceased operation in 2022./ Photo ...

Wyoming coal heavyweights double down on out-of-state metallurgic mines

August 26, 2024 News & Media No Comments

Original Post ➡️ A dragline stands amidst a cloud of smoke and coal dust after a coal “blast” in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin in northeast Wyoming in July 2024. (Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile, courtesy EcoFlight) Wyoming’s two largest coal producers, Peabody Energy and Arch Resources, separately made moves recently to shift their focus away from the state’s ...

Support builds for Santa Cruz River refuge from Mexico to Marana

An Aerial View of Proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary

Groups push to classify Santa Cruz River as urban national refuge

How Colorado Cowboys and Conservationists Joined Forces to Stop Drilling

CuMo exploration project could become an Idaho mine. Environmental groups are worried.

Aspen-Pitkin County Airport misses out on round of federal funding

Continental Divide Trail Coalition offers new tools for navigating Muddy Pass Gap

Another one bites the dust

Wyoming coal heavyweights double down on out-of-state metallurgic mines

Smokestacks demolished at northwest New Mexico power plant

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