6 environmental groups want regulators to toughen rules to consider regional and climate impacts of increased drilling activity in Colorado.
Jackson County
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Oil and gas and cryptocurrency miners are Colorado’s new odd couple. And they’re making quite a bit of coin.
JACKSON COUNTY — Tan pump jacks, 140-year-old oil field technology, bob up and down amid the purple sage in this rural corner of Colorado, lifting oil from deep below and also fueling a very 21st century frenzy: cryptocurrency mining. The pump jack wells are tied to natural gas generators powering trailers filled with bitcoin mining […]
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The wolves are coming. Can Coloradans meet them on common ground?
The wolves aren’t waiting. It’s been a year since mostly urban Colorado voters narrowly approved Proposition 114, a plan to reintroduce wolves to the Western Slope’s public lands — a plan with a deadline that’s still two years away. But on Dec. 19, Don Gittleson, a rancher in North Park near the Wyoming border, lost […]
Posted inHealth, News
How a rural Colorado town without a pharmacy is crowdsourcing to get meds
By Markian Hawryluk, Kaiser Health News WALDEN — The building that once housed the last drugstore in this town of fewer than 600 is now a barbecue restaurant, where pit boss Larry Holtman dishes out smoked brisket and pulled pork across the same counter where pharmacists dispensed vital medications more than 30 years ago. It’s […]
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Rural Americans in pharmacy deserts hurting for COVID vaccines
By Markian Hawryluk, KHN As the Biden administration accelerates a plan to use pharmacies to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, significant areas of the country lack brick-and-mortar pharmacies capable of administering the protective shots. A recent analysis by the Rural Policy Research Institute found that 111 rural counties, mostly between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, have no […]
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Avalanche-trained dog locates body of snowmobiler killed in massive northern Colorado slide
Search and rescue teams on Wednesday used an avalanche-search dog to find the body of a snowmobiler buried in a large slide in the Never Summer Mountains of northern Colorado. His death brings the total number of people killed in avalanches in Colorado so far this season to 11, equal to the number who died […]
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Snowmobiler missing after avalanche in Jackson County
A search is underway for a missing snowmobiler following an avalanche near Ruby Mountain in northern Colorado. The slide happened Tuesday afternoon on a northeast-facing slope at an elevation of about 11,100 feet, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. Members of the missing rider’s group called authorities after the slide, and Jackson County Search […]
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Northern Colorado has its own backcountry ski patrollers. And they’re busier than ever.
CAMERON PASS — The wind is swirling snow and shaking the aspens. It’s single-digit cold. “Such a harsh environment,” says Owen Richard, raising his voice in the gusts as he sticks skins to his skis for another lap in knee-deep powder. “And here we are having fun. So, so lucky.” Backcountry skiers on Cameron Pass […]
Posted inBusiness, Climate, COVID, Environment, Outdoors, Water, Wildfire
“Too many uncontrollables”: From coronavirus to wildfires, Colorado’s hunting season brings a slew of uncertainties
Earl Oesterling first noticed the smoke plumes of the Cameron Peak fire near his business, Ivory & Antler Outfitters, in mid-August. He knew that signaled trouble for hunting even beyond the crowds and the drought that already beset the area. The Jackson County outfitter, located about 20 miles west of what became a massive wildfire […]
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“Flaring” at oil and gas wells to be curtailed as Colorado regulators adopt some of nation’s strictest rules
Flaring, the practice of burning off gas from oil and gas wells, will be limited to a handful of state-approved circumstances under the most comprehensive rules in the nation, adopted Thursday by Colorado regulators. “We’ve done a good job for Colorado and the nation,” Jeff Robbins, the chairman of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation […]