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Original Post ➡️ Ecoflight | Used by permission New federal protection for public lands in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains commemorates veterans of Army’s 10th Mountain Division DENVER – President Joe Biden on Wednesday designated the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument as the first new national monument of his presidency. This classification will protect 53,804 acres in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. Local stakeholders, ...

Original Post ➡️ National Monuments have been political footballs since the Antiquities Act came to be in 1906. But so far court cases haven’t changed the president’s authority to shrink or grow them. The 53,804-acre Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument, near Leadville, Colorado, will be managed by the U.S. Forest Service, which is charged with ...

Original Post ➡️ A flyover illustrates the breadth and beauty of the site that President Biden will designate as a national monument today Flying over Camp Hale provides an up-close look at the mountains and hills where 10th Mountain Division troops gained the skills and resilience necessary to defeat German forces in the Alps.Chris Dillmann/Vail ...

Original Post ➡️ Camp Hale seen from an ECO Flight plane Tuesday in between Red Cliff and Leadville. Camp Hale is being dedicated a National Monument by President Joe Biden today.Chris Dillmann/Vail Daily The flight path mimicked the trip that Pres. Biden will make tomorrow to designate the site as a national monument The Camp ...

Original Post ➡️ A waterfall cascades down from Cedar Lake, a remote alpine lake in the Taylor Hilgard Unit of the Lee Metcalf Wilderness, west of Big Sky, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. As average temperatures warm and more people move to southwest Montana in the coming decades, ecosystems will change, and pressures on wildlife ...

Original Post ➡️ Camp Hale from an EcoFlight flyover on Aug. 9, 2016 (Kristin Kenney Williams photo). The Colorado Snowsports Museum & Hall of Fame in Vail will host a rally in support of the proposed Camp Hale National Monument tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 24 at 2:30 p.m.) on National Public Lands Day. More details below. U.S. Sen. ...

Sens. Bennet, Hickenlooper request protection for World War II training ground Original Post ➡️ A view of Camp Hale in Colorado. (Courtesy of EcoFlight)Courtesy of EcoFlight The three Republican U.S. representatives from Colorado urged President Joe Biden in a letter dated Thursday against using his authority to designate land named in the stalled Colorado Outdoor ...

Original Post ➡️ The Priest River winds back and forth Aug. 31 in North Idaho. (Colin Tiernan/The Spokesman-Review) I go hiking nearly every summer weekend, and nearly every one of those hikes reaches its literal and metaphorical high point atop a Pacific Northwest mountain. Mountaintops mean views. Views of snowy peaks and aquamarine lakes. Dark ...

Original Post ➡️ For more than a decade, tribal nations, scientists and diplomats spanning the U.S.-Canada border have lobbied for a closer examination of the contaminants spilling into their shared watershed from British Columbia coal mines. As that pressure intensifies, plans are underway for a sprawling coal-mine expansion in B.C. Elkview Operations, one of Teck ...

Original Post ➡️ SPARWOOD, British Columbia — Scientists, tribal officials, regulators and environmentalists concerned about contamination from Canadian coal mines whose runoff flows into the United States usually focus on the Kootenai River and border-straddling Lake Koocanusa.  But on Tuesday they took to the sky, observing from 10,000 feet the open-pit, mountaintop-removal coal mines operated by ...