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Are They Rocky Mountain High?		11 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Are They Rocky Mountain High? Another one from the Believe-It-Or-Not Department: Colorado officials want to increase clear-cutting to help solve the state's drought problem. Removing trees would allow more snow to fall to the ground, where it would run off into streams in the spring, providing enough new water to supply as many as a million families, says Kent Holsinger, the top water official at ...
Topics: Colorado, logging, politics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Have Plutonium, Will Travel	Suzy Becker	30 Sep 2002	Ha.

Topics: Colorado, nuclear power, pollution and waste, South Carolina (all these topics)

Canyon of Worms		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Canyon of Worms The Bush administration announced yesterday that energy companies will be allowed to expand oil and gas exploration beyond the boundaries of their leases at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument near Durango, Colo. The announcement marks the first time exploration has been permitted outside leased areas at a monument. Already, about 85 percent of the 164,0 ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

What's a Little Nerve Gas Among Wildlife?		06 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
What's a Little Nerve Gas Among Wildlife? It seems like a wilderness paradise, replete with mule deer, bald eagles, and foxes -- but Colorado's Rocky Mountain Arsenal is also a Cold War relic contaminated by years of chemical weapons production. The 27-square-mile patch of land just 10 miles outside of Denver bears the paradoxical dual designation of National Wildlife Refuge and Superfund site. C ...
Topics: Colorado, health, pollution and waste, toxics, wilderness (all these topics)

Rocky Mountain High Tax Aspen, Colo., taxes its way to a healthier climate	Hal Clifford	31 Jul 2002	Main Dish
Randy Udall charges more for a ton of carbon dioxide than anybody else in the world. Udall runs a unique, two-and-a-half-year-old program in Aspen and surrounding Pitkin County, Colo., that charges new homeowners up to $100,000 if they exceed the "energy budget" allotted to their property by the local building code. The money collected under the Renewable Energy Mitigation Program ...
Topics: carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, Colorado, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Give Those Ranchers a Hand		29 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Give Those Ranchers a Hand In an unusual shake-up of traditional alliances, ranchers and environmentalists are banding together in Colorado to fight a common enemy: urban sprawl. In Custer County, at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, three conservation groups and six ranchers have signed a covenant limiting the kind of development permissible on the land -- no trophy homes, no golf courses, no condominiums. The result? An 11 ...
Topics: Colorado, placemaking (all these topics)

Stupid Is Where Stupid Lives		11 Jul 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Colorado, wilderness (all these topics)

High-tailing it out of there		14 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
High-tailing it out of there The Colorado River -- the water source for 25 million Americans -- is almost certainly on a collision course with a massive pile of uranium slag, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Energy's National Research Council. The 12 million tons of tailings, located near Moab, Utah, are left over from a uranium mill that provide ...
Topics: Colorado, Colorado River, politics, pollution and waste, Utah, water pollution (all these topics)

The Methane of Their Existence Citizens battle to keep Delta County from becoming the coal bed methane capital of Colorado	Lisa Jones	14 Jun 2002	Soapbox
It started out as a simple item on a regional planning commission agenda in remote Delta County, Colo. A recently reworked natural gas well in Delta County. Photo: Jeremy Puckett, WSERC. But since that meeting on April 9, the possibility that up to 600 coal bed methane wells could be drilled here has whipped up a firestorm of dissent in this quiet w ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Coal Bed		14 Jun 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Colorado, energy, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Hodging His Bets		14 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Hodging His Bets The U.S. government could begin moving radioactive plutonium from Colorado into South Carolina's Savannah River nuclear complex as soon as this weekend, following a federal judge's refusal yesterday afternoon to block the shipments. Gov. Jim Hodges (D) has vowed to appeal the ruling, and maintains that he won't allow the plutonium into South Carolina until he has a legal guaran ...
Topics: Colorado, nuclear power, pollution and waste, South Carolina (all these topics)

Carolina in Their Minds		13 May 2002	Daily Grist
Carolina in Their Minds The Bush administration is unhappy about a new ad campaign attacking its plan to move some 30 tons of plutonium from Colorado to South Carolina for temporary storage. The campaign was launched last week by South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges (D), who opposes the plan, fearing that his state could become the permanent resting grounds for the rad ...
Topics: Colorado, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

Let It Allard Hang Out		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Let It Allard Hang Out The plot thickens in the controversy over the federal government's decision to ship weapons-grade plutonium from Colorado to South Carolina for temporary storage. Arms-control advocates and Democratic politicians in South Carolina allege that the Bush administration is backing a shipment plan in order to improve the re-election prospects of Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo ...
Topics: Colorado, North Carolina, nuclear power, politics, South Carolina (all these topics)

Dune Messiah		11 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Dune Messiah It's a rare moment when ranchers and environmentalists see eye-to-eye -- and yet a collaboration between the two parties is leading to the creation of the nation's 57th national park. The unlikely relationship began when enviros and ranchers realized they had something in common: a need to protect the water resources in Colorado's San Luis Valley. Although it receives very little ...
Topics: Colorado, land stewardship, national parks, Nature Conservancy (all these topics)

Back in Black		16 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Back in Black Thirty-one black-footed ferrets were released into the wild in Colorado yesterday, 58 years after the animal was last sighted in the state. The release near Rangley, Colo., was the ninth on the continent since the U.S. began a captive-breeding program to save the species 14 years ago; the animals have also been set loose in Arizona, South Dakota, ...
Topics: Arizona, Colorado, environmental restoration, Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Tanks a Lot		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist

Topics: Colorado, environmental restoration, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Sharps Shooter Colorado man cleans up war-game carnage	David Mayfield	26 Jul 2001	Main Dish
The war is over and Dan Sharps is doing a body count. In a thicket of pinyon and juniper trees, something big and violent has cleared a path. Dan Sharps as a tack. Photo: David Mayfield. "Lost arm," Sharps says, gesturing toward one tree clipped of a big branch. "Lost leg," he says, pointing to another. Straight ahead lay the splinters of what was a large pinyon -- a hearty tree but not w ...
Topics: Colorado, land stewardship, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Military, wildlife (all these topics)

Dance of the Burning Vails A review of Powder Burn	Florangela Davila	19 Feb 2001	Arts and Minds
A little over two years ago, fire swept through five buildings and four ski lifts in Vail, Colo., causing more than $12 million in damage, upending a small town already reeling from enormous change, and eventually introducing the word ecoterrorism into the mainstream lexicon. Burning down the lodge. Photo: earthliberationfront.com. Indeed, so prominent were the arson fires of 19 Oct. 1998 that the event not only ...
Topics: Colorado, outdoor recreation, wildlife (all these topics)

Letter of the Law Can laws be written that inspire reverence for the land?	David Mayfield	09 Feb 2001	Main Dish
As usual, Charles Wilkinson is pacing. Hands stuffed in the front pockets of his Levi's, head down, he paces the lecture hall, up one stairway and down the other, his students' heads swiveling to follow him. Charles Wilkinson, law man. Photo: Larry Harwood, University of Colorado at Boulder. But on this December morning, during the last meeting of Wilkinson's natural resources law course at t ...
Topics: Colorado, education, politics, Washington, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Lean and Green A Colorado family welcomes the simple life	Lisa Jones	26 Apr 2000	Main Dish
Why would Dale Murphy, a senior geologist with Enserch Exploration, leave a $58,000-a-year job in Dallas and take his family to a remote town in Colorado where the employment opportunities range from sorting cherries to working a supermarket cash register? The Murphy family, home on the range. Photo: Lisa Jones. Sanity. He and his wife Sheryl didn't want to raise four-year-old Hayden and seven-year-old Ginger in ...
Topics: Colorado, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Fire on the Mountain	Ben White	13 Apr 2000	Muckraker
Enviros in Washington are apoplectic over what they fear will be a pre-Earth Day cave-in by the Clinton administration over mountaintop-removal mining in West Virginia. This used to be a mountain. Photo: David Miller, www.mountaintopmining.org. Readers may recall this battle from last year's appropriations season, when powerful Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) introduced a rider that would have bypassed a federal judge's ruling against the destructive mini ...
Topics: coal, Colorado, energy, Greenpeace, Idaho, Montana, Muckraker, Nevada, politics, Utah, Washington DC, West Virginia ... (all these topics)

Who Dropped the Green from the GOP? A Republican berates his party for abandoning the environment	Karl Hess, Jr.	11 Jan 2000	Soapbox
Republicans are handing Democrats a green Y2K. So far, GOP presidential contenders have all but conceded the environmental issue to Al Gore and Bill Bradley. Rather than fight for the conservation mantle that was once the GOP's, they seem content to not ask and not tell when it comes to the nation's land, air, water, and wildlife. At best, Republican environmental polic ...
Topics: Colorado, land stewardship, politics, ranching, United States, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Ag-gravation An Iowan causes growing pains for agro-industry	Lisa Jones	03 Nov 1999	Main Dish
Kamyar Enshayan is a folk music aficionado and a lifelong soccer fan. He lives in a comfortable house on a shady street in Cedar Falls, Iowa, with his four-year-old daughter, Nettie, and his wife, Laura Jackson, a biology professor at the University of Northern Iowa. They have a large vegetable garden. Laura is expecting their second child in December. Enshayan takes a break from causing trouble. Their existen ...
Topics: Colorado, education, food and agriculture, Iowa, politics (all these topics)

Nothing But Goodtimes Ahead A longhair stirs up politics in Colorado	Michelle Nijhuis	19 Oct 1999	Main Dish
Art Goodtimes is driving my car, and he's making me a little nervous. Not that he's a bad driver. But he's talking Colorado politics, and he's warming up to the subject. He starts gesturing, and soon he's taking both hands off the wheel when he particularly wants to make a point. I realize my car's alignment is in much worse shape than I'd thought. Estate of the Art. We're driving to Unaweap Cany ...
Topics: Colorado, politics (all these topics)

Dudeless Ranch Brandi Chastain ain't got nothing on these ladies	Lisa Jones	20 Aug 1999	Main Dish
Virginia Sutherland sits in her orderly ranch kitchen in Moffat, Colo. She's drinking a cup of coffee, smoking a cigarette, and fiddling with a box of recipe cards. But we are not about to discuss the finer points of angel food cake -- the recipe cards describe each of her 250 cows that she runs with her daughter, Lynn. "They describe everything," says Virginia, drawing hard on her cigarette. ...
Topics: agriculture, Colorado, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

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