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Federal officials to review 5 alternatives for Colorado River operations post-2026
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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on Wednesday announced five proposals it would review to determine the post-2026 operating guidelines that would govern the Colorado River in the decades to come. Its analysis will be published next month, keeping the process on track to be completed by 2027. December was supposed to be the month that the…
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Biden administration invests $700M in Colorado River conservation for Lower Basin states
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The Biden administration announced Thursday that it will invest $700 million in long-term water conservation projects in the Lower Colorado River Basin. According to the Department of the Interior, the investment could save more than 700,000 acre-feet of water in Lake Mead. An acre-foot of water is the amount it would take to cover one…
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Interior Secretary Zinke cites Colorado’s advantages in BLM move
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK – U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke gripped two hiking poles, citing a gimpy knee from his years as a Navy SEAL and a college football lineman, as he wandered deeper into Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday. “There’s no reason a trail can’t begin on Forest Service property and go into…
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Interior’s No. 2 man sees Washington from a Colorado point of view
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Growing up in Rifle on the Western Slope, David Bernhardt saw Colorado’s great outdoors from both sides of the economic equation. This upbringing would shape his way of thinking as the second-in-command for the U.S. Department of the Interior. The Rifle of his boyhood in the early 1980s – from the rugged Flat Tops Wilderness…
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Interior boss Ryan Zinke says he’s still looking westward for new digs
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is pressing ahead with a massive overhaul of his department, despite growing opposition to his proposal to move hundreds of public employees out of Washington and possibly to Colorado or elsewhere in the West. Zinke wants to divide most of the department’s 70,000 employees and their responsibilities into 13 regions based…
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Not a done deal yet: Interior extends comment period on park admissions hike
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Those concerned about a 250 percent hike in admission cost to 17 of the nation’s most popular national parks have another month to lodge a comment, after the Department of Interior heeded a request from Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner and others to give people more time. While Gardner, a Republican from Yuma, is asking people…
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Colorado Republicans cheer while environmentalists fear repeal of water rule
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Members of Colorado’s congressional delegation and the Trump administration are taking steps to roll back the federal government’s reach over bodies of water across the country. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said this week that the administration will repeal the so-called Waters of the United States rule, or WOTUS. The rule, enacted under the Obama administration, clarifies…
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Hickenlooper says it’s ‘unlikely’ Colorado national monuments will face Trump-ordered review
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Gov. John Hickenlooper said late Thursday that he’s confident that Colorado’s national monuments won’t be threatened as a result of an executive order signed this week by President Trump instructing his interior secretary to conduct a review. Hickenlooper said he discussed the executive order Wednesday in Washington, D.C., with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and two…
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Democrat Cary Kennedy talks opportunity as she launches campaign for governor of Colorado
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For Democrat Cary Kennedy, a former state treasurer and former deputy mayor of Denver, it’s all about opportunity, and that’s what she wanted to talk about as she prepared to make her run for governor of Colorado official. Kennedy is the fourth Democrat to jump in the primary race for the chance to take…
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Congressman Ed Perlmutter officially declares he’s running for governor of Colorado
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Declaring that he’ll stand up for Colorado in the face of threats from the Trump administration, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, an Arvada Democrat, made his campaign for governor official on Sunday afternoon at a grocery store in Golden. “I love this state, and I want to continue to lead the fight for freedom, equality and…
