“It almost gives the sense of not working with businesses, even if that’s not their intent,” said Laura Marchino, executive director of Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado. “This just adds to those barriers.” Jonathan Romeo Durango Herald…
The statute may have been written with good intentions, but it often punishes landowners in ways that have nothing to do with recovering species. The act makes enemies out of the private landowners who provide the majority of habitat for imperiled…