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Original Story: https://defenders.org/blog/2020/08/mojave-desert-overhead-and-ground “A general pallor of dust still accompanied sunrise in the western Mojave Desert this morning, following the infamous King of the Hammers off-road event held in Johnson Valley a week ago. Flying today with my friends over public and private lands near California City on a Presidents Day Weekend EcoFlight – to get ...

Original story here: https://www.aspendailynews.com/news/core-act-passes-u-s-house-as-attachment-to-defense-bill/article_58ee84c8-cbc7-11ea-ae31-2fa120009b5d.html The Thompson Divide comprises more than 220,000 acres of land in Pitkin, Garfield, Gunnison, Mesa and Delta counties. Courtesy Eco Flight The U.S. House on Tuesday passed the CORE Act, which aims to protect hundreds of thousands of acres of Colorado public lands and waters, as a rider to a national ...

Original Story here: https://arkvalleyvoice.com/grape-creek-mining-proposal-threatens-wilderness-and-back-country-southwest-of-canon-city/ A mining proposal, which lacks environmental oversight, threatens the wild Grape Creek Proposed Wilderness and Backcountry Recreational Area located southwest of Cañon City. Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette recently voiced her opinion on the issue. DeGette explained “In February, my bill, the Colorado Wilderness Act, passed the United States House of Representatives.  The ...

Original Article: https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2020/07/09/worried-about-effects/ (Photo Courtesy Ray Bloxham, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance) The BLM plans to sell oil and gas leases on at least 85,000 acres of scenic public land near Canyonlands and Arches national parks, including parts of Hatch Canyon, at its September auction. The city of Moab and Grand County are urging the BLM ...

Original story here: https://www.khq.com/regional/non-profit-hosts-flight-in-butte-to-view-lands-up-for-sale-from-a-new/article_1dfeadcf-5a48-5ebd-bda6-c788a549212b.html BUTTE-The state of Montana is considering expanding the Garrity Mountain Wildlife Management Area just outside of Anaconda and a non-profit group hosted a special flight on Wednesday to view the area from new heights. Ecoflight is a non-profit based in Colorado and their mission is to educate and advocate for the ...

Original story here: https://www.kxlf.com/news/local-news/wildlife-organization-trying-to-add-600-acres-of-public-land-near-anaconda ANACONDA — “The parcel we’re going to look at is right at the bottom of that, we’re going to want to go up like this and loop around,” said Chris Marchion as the plane circled over a wildlife management area near Anaconda Wednesday. Wildlife officials got a bird’s eye view of ...

Original story here: https://cbsloc.al/30ziJcN ASPEN, Colo. (CBS4)– An Aspen-based nonprofit is helping deliver personal protective equipment to Native American communities in the Southwest. EcoFlight recently delivered a quarter of a million pieces of PPE to The Navajo Nation, Zuni, and Ute Mountain tribe in Colorado. (credit: Hamilton Pevec) “This PPE is going straight into the ...

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Original story: https://www.denverpost.com/2020/02/23/democrats-president-primary-climate-environment/ Primary contenders aim to undo Trump actions, reduce carbon emissions By Jon Murray | jmurray@denverpost.com | The Denver Post Colorado is a state that prizes the outdoors and prioritizes environmental concerns. But it’s also a state with a petroleum industry that employs 90,000 people, directly and indirectly, and allows extensive fracking activity along the Front Range. That makes the ...

Original story: https://www.aspenjournalism.org/2020/02/22/quarry-in-marble-facing-scrutiny-from-federal-state-regulators-in-wake-of-diesel-spill/ Vehicles and machinery were parked outside the entrances to the marble galleries of the Pride of America Mine in January. The quarry operators Colorado Stone Quarries are facing scrutiny from federal and state agencies after an October diesel spill.Mike Stevens/EcoFlight MARBLE — Colorado Stone Quarries, the operator of Marble’s famed Yule quarry, is ...