August 8, 2017 House legislation streamlines permit process for improvements on public lands [paypal_donation_button] …the bill includes provisions that would authorize the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to enter into cooperative…
July 30, 2017 Colorado native, former NRA liaison considered for key USDA position [paypal_donation_button] …the Trump Administration is tasked with reintroducing Americans to the fact that national forests exist to support agribusiness, such as timber and grazing,…
July 24, 2017 Hanging Lake: Iconic Colorado trail threatened by excessive tourist traffic Hanging Lake is one of Colorado’s true gems, a turquoise splendor whose beauty is being eroded, officials believe, by a massive increase in user…
July 17, 2017 ‘Authoritarian’ overreach one reason for land management agencies shakeup It is a perennial issue in the West, because access to national forests, parks, wildlife refuges, and BLM land sometimes requires crossing private land….
July 15, 2017 Despite agreement, Montana helicopter fleet stays grounded in busy wildfire season “Regarding the issue relative to the Department of Agriculture, there appears to be an ongoing refusal on the part of the federal government and…
June 27, 2017 Catastrophic wildfires bring urgency to Resilient Federal Forests Act Such destructive and ever-larger wildfires are a perennial event, and each year various agencies must brace–under tight budgets and limited resources–for long, busy months…
May 31, 2017 Aspen’s water right gets walloped by ‘wilderness’ Karma The environmental groups opposing Aspen assert that the city doesn’t need the water, though that is a difficult case to make against any growing…
May 26, 2017 Natural Resources head moves to bring more local control to land, resource policies “Our experience has been that the BLM [Bureau of Land Management] planners hold very few public meetings where information is given, but not exchanged,”…
May 17, 2017 This green group finally gets that restoring a forest requires cutting down trees The restoration thinning project outside the city of Cle Elum mirrors numerous projects in forests across the U.S. West, mostly on federal public lands,…
May 10, 2017 Berkeley study refutes claim that forests are naturally dense and should be left untouched “We went through the data and showed that, in every case, this method estimated that the density of trees was two to three times…
