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Environmental groups ask judge to keep Great Salt Lake lawsuit alive

April 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Great Salt Lake dropped to a historic low in 2022 because of water diversion, drought and impacts from climate change. (Megan Banta | The Salt Lake Tribune) Stansbury Island during a flyover of the Great Salt Lake with EcoFlight on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. A coalition of environmental groups is asking ...
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Flying Over the Great Bend of the Gila with EcoFlight

April 29, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ EcoFlight is a nonprofit organization that provides an aerial perspective on environmental campaigns to educate and advocate for remaining wildlands, wildlife habitats, and culturally sensitive landscapes throughout the Western U.S.Community leaders, journalists, and coalition partners from Arizona recently experienced an EcoFlight over the proposed Great Bend of the Gila National Monument.Despite its ...
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Hickenlooper monument listening sessions postponed

April 26, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post Christopher Tomlinson/The Daily SentinelThis file photo shows the Dolores River during a flight provided by the nonprofit group EcoFlight. Christopher Tomlinson Due to a change in the U.S. Senate’s vote schedule, Sen. John Hickenlooper has postponed two listening sessions to hear public input on a proposal to create a national monument in the Dolores ...
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Great Salt Lake is up, but it still isn’t healthy — and likely won’t be for a while

April 25, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ While the lake is above the highest elevation level at any point last year, it’s still below the minimum healthy level of 4,198 feet by at least a yard and some change. (Megan Banta | The Salt Lake Tribune) Water levels are up in Bear River Bay during a flyover of the ...
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Holy Cross approaches 90% renewable power in 2025

April 25, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The 5-megawatt Pitkin Solar Project near Woody Creek, completed in 2021, is one of Holy Cross Energy’s renewable energy sources. This view was provided during an EcoFlight day trip. Austin Corona/Aspen Daily News Glenwood Springs-based Holy Cross Energy announced last week that it is on track to achieve a 90% renewable energy portfolio ...
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From Backyards to Monumental Heights: The San Gabriel Mountains’ Importance to LA Community

April 24, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Trail in Lakeview Terrace. (SFVS Staff) For many Angelenos, the San Gabriel Mountains define the Los Angeles landscape. Stretching from the San Fernando Valley to the San Gabriel Valley, these glorious peaks are the northeastern backdrop to the valleys below. The Angeles National Forest is one of the most frequented recreational outdoor spaces ...
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Opinion: Poisonous ‘forever’ chemicals are likely in the Great Salt Lake. They should be banned.

April 22, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Great Salt Lake ecosystem is being showered with herbicides and insecticides. (Megan Banta | The Salt Lake Tribune) Stansbury Island during a flyover of the Great Salt Lake with EcoFlight on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. This week The Tribune ran a front-page story on contamination of Wasatch Front drinking water with PFAS (otherwise ...
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Court sides with Forest Service in Purgatory Resort water rights dispute

April 21, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Ski area sought access to federal land for water; federal agency denied authorization A view east looks up the East Fork of the Hermosa Creek. A U.S. District Court judge sided with the federal government in a lawsuit filed in 2022 by Purgatory Resort regarding the ski area’s right to access federal ...
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Salt Lake having very dry April, but Utah’s water supply is still in top-notch shape

April 19, 2024 News & Media No Comments
SALT LAKE CITY— While Utah’s water supply continues to get stronger, Salt Lake City saw a very abnormally dry start to April.KSL Meteorologist Matt Johnson said the Salt Lake City International Airport registered only .34 inches of rain so far in April, when it normally gets 2.16 inches for the entire month. That’s only 15% ...
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The Great Salt Lake has a chance to be healthy again for the first time in over a decade

April 18, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Promontory Point during an EcoFlight around the Great Salt Lake on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. Scott G Winterton / Deseret News In a couple of months, the Great Salt Lake has a chance of reaching its healthy range for the first time in over a decade.The Natural Resources Conservation Service recently forecasted the Great ...
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