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GOP moves to rein in its rebels
A GOP memo to this year's Republican candidates urges them to start looking green.
by Heather Abel, Jun 10, 1996 -
Silence could be shattered by military jets
The Colorado Air National Guard's plan to increase training flights over the Sangre de Cristo and Wet Mountains and the San Luis Valley upsets locals, including contemplative monks in Crestone.
by Bill Taylor, Jun 10, 1996 -
Military in a dogfight for crowded skies
The Colorado Air National Guard's plan to increase fighter-jet training over southeastern Colorado raises opposition from environmentalists, ranchers and residents - and from Colorado Springs' booming airport.
by Malcolm Howard, Jun 10, 1996 -
Dear Friends
Special issue, board meeting in Grand Junction, drop-ins, odds and ends.
by Betsy Marston, Jun 10, 1996 -
A Colorado canyon faces an uncertain future
Western Colorado's Demaree Canyon, a wilderness study area, faces possible natural-gas drilling owing to a grandfathered drilling permit.
by Dawn Capewell, May 27, 1996 -
Wyoming's Red Desert: 15 million acres of contention
A possible oil and gas boom in Wyoming's Red Desert has environmentalists scrambling to mitigate the impacts without totally alienating local oil and gas workers.
by Katharine Collins, May 27, 1996 -
Joyriding kills
Recklessness and speed killed nine snowmobilers last winter in Wyoming near Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.
by Bill Taylor, May 27, 1996 -
Beavers land on the hot seat in Idaho
A new Idaho law allows farmers who suspect beavers are damming water that could be irrigating fields to call on state officials to get rid of the beavers even if the dams are on someone's private property.
by Greg Moore, May 27, 1996 -
Colorado Democrats ponder electability vs. purity
Despite his support of the controversial Animas-La Plata water project, Colorado environmentalists seem to prefer Tom Strickland to his arguably greener opponent Gene Nichol for the Democratic candidate for Senate.
by Heather Abel, May 27, 1996 -
Open your wallet; visit a national park
The National Park Service considers raising park entrance fees that in many cases have remained almost unchanged since the parks were created.
by Michael Doyle, May 27, 1996 -
Sierra Club zeroes in on logging
Sierra Club members approve a controversial new policy calling for no logging on public lands.
by Paul Larmer, May 27, 1996 -
River bomber discovered down under
Ken "Taz" Stoner, suspected of bombing Quartzite Falls on Arizona's Salt River, is arrested in Sydney, Australia.
by Kristin Atwell, May 27, 1996 -
Salvage rider will destroy sacred sites
Native Americans and environmentalists protest a salvage rider timber sale on Oregon's Enola Hill, saying the area is full of sites sacred to Northwestern tribes.
by Bill Taylor, May 27, 1996 -
Arizona state land opens for conservation
The new Arizona Preserve Initiative allows conservationists to lease state lands, but only those within a three-mile radius of major cities.
by Bill Taylor, May 27, 1996 -
Runaway runway advances at Jackson Hole airport
Despite overwhelming public opposition, Jackson Hole airport officials want to expand the runway of the only airport inside a national park, in Grand Teton National Park.
by Roger Hayden, May 27, 1996 -
Dear Friends
Woe is Montana, notes from all over, Anders Halverson wins awards.
by Betsy Marston, May 27, 1996 -
It's Chase who's lost in the dark wood
A reviewer debunks the claim in Alston Chase's book, "In a Dark Wood," that "ecosystem" and "biocentrism" are only "masquerading as science."
by Alan Pistorius, May 27, 1996 -
Biodiversity Protection: Implementation and Reform of the Endangered Species Act
University of Colorado School of Law's 17th Annual Summer Conference, "Biodiversity Protection: Implementation and Reform of the Endangered Species Act," to be held June 9-12, in Boulder, Colo.
by Staff, May 27, 1996 -
Rocky Mountain Rendezvous: Renew Yourself in the High Country
The 51st annual conference of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, "Rocky Mountain Rendezvous: Renew Yourself in the High Country," will be held July 7-10, in Keystone, Colo.
by Staff, May 27, 1996 -
Wildflowers made easy
G.K. Guennel's two-volume "Guide to Colorado Wildflowers" makes plant identification easy.
by Elizabeth Manning, May 27, 1996
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