Raising fees and cleanup insurance while slowing leasing heartens environmentalists but provokes industry criticism.
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Opinion: On public lands, conservation is just as valuable as extraction
The BLM’s proposed Public Lands Rule will help balance the demands on natural resources with protecting our mountain ecosystem.
Posted inOutdoors
The Biden administration wants to make conservation equal to ranching and mining in the West. The GOP won’t have it.
The Republican-led House Committee on Natural Resources voted Wednesday to withdraw a BLM rule it links to “Biden’s preservationist agenda.”
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Opinion: Colorado has too few, not too many, wild horses on public lands
But an unfortunate new law to limit the horse population buys into the notion that public lands are reserved for private industry.
Posted inBusiness
Massive rock slide halts operations at Glenwood Springs quarry. Mine opponents call for shut-down, investigation.
Federal and state mining regulators are investigating the rock slide at the quarry owned by Rocky Mountain Industrials, which is proposing a controversial mine expansion
Posted inWater
How to buy a San Luis Valley reservoir
A local water district, a federal land agency, a state wildlife group and a national environmental nonprofit partnered on a creative water deal with multiple benefits for the valley
Posted inOutdoors
Colorado ranchers moove into the future with virtual fences that help sustain public grasslands
In the first program its kind, cell towers are helping the BLM repair neglected rangeland by giving land managers unprecedented control over where herds are grazing
Posted inEnvironment, News, Politics and Government
141 wild horses — a third of those captured from the Western Slope — died in country’s deadliest flu outbreak
A third of the wild horses captured from Western Slope rangeland last summer have died in the equine flu outbreak at their holding pens in Cañon City, though federal officials said Wednesday that the outbreak is winding down. Mustang deaths — which numbered more than 20 on the worst days of the outbreak — have […]
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Nearly 100 wild horses have died in less than a week as equine flu spreads at federal facility in Cañon City
Veterinarians say a highly contagious equine flu has killed 95 wild horses so far this week at federal Bureau of Land Management holding pens in Cañon City. The mustangs captured from Colorado rangeland and hauled to the federal facility on state prison grounds have been dying at a rapid pace. Federal officials first announced the […]
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Dispersed camping is out of control in Chaffee County. Officials are seeking solutions.
A surge in recreational camping around Buena Vista and Salida is wreaking havoc on natural areas and spurring public lands managers to mull the closure of dozens of dispersed campsites. In the county that’s 82% public land and home to a fifth of the state’s fourteeners, wildlife populations are plunging in the face of habitat […]