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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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SURVEYING THE MESA

October 25, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original post ➡️  On Wednesday, I climbed aboard a six-seater plane and slipped on a noise-canceling headset in preparation for a half-hour flight out of Lone Pine Airport over the desert, to get an aerial glimpse of Conglomerate Mesa — a parcel of land steeped in controversy, sacred significance and gold. I boarded the aircraft around ...
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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 ...
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Environmental groups gain new perspective of Tijuana River pollution

October 22, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Tijuana River is one of America’s most endangered rivers because of pollution, according to the American Rivers 2024 report.This week the nonprofit EcoFlight gave a group of advocates, nonprofit leaders and government representatives a bird’s-eye view of the area to better understand the causes of the pollution.Ramon Chairez, with the nonprofit ...
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EcoFlight: A bird’s eye view of the Tijuana River Valley

October 21, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post: watch the video➡️ IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. (KGTV)— On Monday, a group of environmental advocates, researchers, and industry professionals got a bird’ s-eye view of the Tijuana River Valley.They boarded a flight provided by EcoFlight, a non-profit focused on conservation and environmental justice efforts.“It’s my home. It’s where I grew up, it’s where I ...
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Residents of White Mesa say uranium mill is polluting their water

October 7, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ This April 11, 2015, photo provided by EcoFlight shows the White Mesa Uranium Mill near Blanding in southeastern Utah. Members of a small tribal community in Southern Utah were protesting at the capitol, saying their water is being polluted with Uranium. (Dom Smith/EcoFlight via AP) WHITE MESA, Utah — Members of White ...
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