People make better decisions if they have to walk down Main Street the next day, facing the folks whose lives are affected. That is common sense. It sometimes seems rare in Washington, but in this case it is being realized…
"BLM will be more efficient and responsive in its new home of Grand Junction, where its employees will live alongside the ranchers, miners, and farmers who are most impacted by its decisions. I applaud Secretary Bernhardt and Casey Hammond for…
"This is a victory for local communities, advocates for public lands, and proponents for a more responsible and accountable federal government.” July 15, 2019 From a press release issued by the office of United States Senator from Colorado, Cory Gardner…
A well-connected metro Denver water developer, backed by former Colorado Governor Bill Owens, Front Range real estate interests, and absentee ranchers who themselves control huge amounts of water here, is proposing to export millions of gallons of water out of…
In addition, elk populations in southwest Colorado are already struggling. Researchers are working to find the cause of poor calf recruitment and low elk numbers. A forced reintroduction of wolves would be catastrophic to this work and the established elk and…
The USFS says since 1994, bark beetles have wiped out over four million acres in the southern Rockies. The trees turn red, then brown, then become fuel for catastrophic fires. Better Wait for a Real Crisis by GREG WALCHER Rob Reiner’s…
Polis personally intervened in the preparation of that annual report: he directed the Air Pollution Control Division to omit available scientific evidence showing that a substantial portion of the Front Range’s ground-level ozone pollution is traceable to out-of-state sources, namely West…
The first item on the list came from an effort by WildEarth Guardians in late 2018 to encourage CDPHE to not move forward with an extension requested by former Gov. John Hickenlooper’s administration and have the Environmental Protection Agency not…
SB 181 opponents said it closely resembled 2018’s failed ballot initiative pushed by environmentalists and some Democrats that would have effectively banned hydraulic fracturing in most of Colorado. Voters rejected the measure in November. bill Michael Bastasch Daily Caller News Foundation…
While the all-Democrat three-member BOCC: Gwen Lachelt, Julie Westendorff and Clyde Church are responsible for the letter’s contents, the county attorney didn’t confirm or deny the legal department’s involvement in the letter; although it would have been irregular for the…