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Colorado senators release guidelines for protecting Dolores River Canyon

July 18, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Statement advocates maintaining water and mining rights, continued grazing, prohibiting feesThe Dolores River rolls through the community of Gateway in Mesa County. The Gateway Canyons Resort on Colorado Highway 141 is the western mouth of the Unaweep Canyon on the left. (Jason Blevins/The Colorado Sun/EcoFlight, File)Following several forums with communities in Southwest ...
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Lithium Critical to the Energy Transition Is Coming at the Expense of Water

July 18, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ A new study finds that the mining and processing of the metal critical to EV batteries and renewable energy storage projects depletes and contaminates surface water, often in already vulnerable communities. At the Salton Sea in California, geothermal plants could soon also extract lithium from brine water contained deep in the ground. ...
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Emails raise questions about county monument poll’s objectivity

July 17, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ When Aaron Weiss requested internal emails from Mesa County related to a public opinion poll on a proposed national monument for the Dolores River region, he wasn’t expecting them to reveal that monument opponents were involved in suggesting poll questions.But that and other revelations produced by the emails request have him contending ...
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10 Years Ago: Remembering Colorado’s Largest Landslide

July 7, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ One of the worst natural disasters in Colorado’s history took place in Mesa County on May, 25th, 2014. It came to be known as the West Salt Creek Landslide and remains the longest landslide to take place in Colorado’s historical record.Ten years later, Colorado realizes just how awful this disaster could have been, and just how lucky we are ...
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Colorado’s U.S. Senators express support for added protection of Dolores River, with safeguards for existing uses

July 4, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ After meeting with locals in Mesa and Montrose counties, Sens. Bennet and Hickenlooper say additional protection around the Dolores River should not impact mining, hunting, grazing and water rights The Dolores River winds toward the Paradox Valley in Montrose County. (Jason Blevins, The Colorado Sun / EcoFlight) Colorado’s U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet ...
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Colorado’s U.S. Senators express support for added protection of Dolores River, with safeguards for existing uses

July 4, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The Dolores River winds toward the Paradox Valley in Montrose County. (Jason Blevins, The Colorado Sun / EcoFlight) Colorado’s U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper are on board with increased protections around the Dolores River but only if existing mining, hunting, grazing and water rights are protected.The senators on Tuesday released a statement indicating they ...
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Following Sackett, questions remain about what waters are protected

June 30, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ As the impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sackett decision of 2023 unfold, New Mexico water advocates are pushing for increased protections of waterways that are no longer protected under the Clean Water Act. Advocates from groups like Trout Unlimited and Amigos Bravos partnered with EcoFlight to help a group of legislators ...
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Scorching heat in the US Southwest kills three migrants in the desert near the Arizona-Mexico border

June 28, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ The U.S. Border Patrol reported Friday that the bodies of two men, ages 44 and 18, and a 17-year-old girl were found in the desert. By Anita Snow, Associated PressThree Mexican migrants have died in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border as high temperatures soar well into the triple ...
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Federal ‘land grab’ or conservation? U.S. senator visits Dolores River to weigh in

June 17, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Opponents fear a national monument will curtail access and draw crowds; supporters say it will help manage impactsThe Dolores River winds through the West End of Montrose County upstream of Bedrock and the Paradox Valley. A proposal for a new national monument would increase protections for 400,000 acres around the Dolores River ...
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EcoFlight in the valley

June 17, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Residential developments can be seen below in Paradise Valley mixed with ranches and farmland. Dan Astin/ Enterprise Representatives from the tourism industry, media and Park County Environmental Council, or PCEC, took to the skies from Livingston’s Mission Field in a 1978 Cessna Turbo 210 on Monday to fly over Paradise Valley.PCEC is ...
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