How states are leading on conservation

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, a case challenging the approval of the Uinta Basin Railway. The proposed 88-mile railway would enable as many as 350,000 barrels of oil per day from Utah’s largest oil field to be shipped through Colorado. Part of the proposed route for […]

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a bill that would support mapping and protection of wildlife migration routes. Earlier this week, Senator Alex Padilla of California and Representatives Ryan Zinke of Montana and Don Beyer of Virginia introduced the “Wildlife Movement through Partnerships Act.” Among other provisions, the bill would create a new Wildlife Movement and Migration Corridor program […]

Department of the Interior officials attended a community meeting Friday to gather feedback on the proposal to designate Chuckwalla National Monument, signaling that the administration is interested in moving forward with a monument designation. Attendees included BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning and Acting Deputy Interior Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis. An estimated 700 people attended the meeting, and […]

This year, Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Project celebrated the tenth anniversary of its Conservation in the West Poll, which has become a benchmark for assessing Western attitudes towards conservation and public lands throughout the past decade. The poll shows clearly that voters in the West care deeply about clean air and water, wildlife, […]

A conversation with Luis Benitez, director of the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office. Links mentioned in the show: Headwaters Economics, Federal Lands in the West: Liability or Asset? The history of “This Land is Your Land“