endangered species act

San Miguel County, environmental groups sue feds over oil and gas leases, claim risk to sage grouse ignored

Oct 11, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Claiming the federal government failed to consider the impact of drilling on a threatened bird’s habitat, three environmental groups and San Miguel County sued the Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday seeking to cancel a number of oil and gas leases sold earlier this year in southwest Colorado. “The Gunnison sage-grouse deserves strong conservation protections,…
Partnership, not partisanship, is answer to survival of rural livelihood and species recovery

Aug 30, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

As Congress returns from the August recess, many questions remain about the future of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Recently, the House Natural Resources Committee heard a series of legislative proposals addressing the program’s effectiveness, implementation, and even the legitimacy of the Act itself. While opinions about the ESA vary widely, Western Landowners Alliance believes…
Western guvs’ tilt on Endangered Species Act gets thumbs-up from landowners

Jun 29, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

On the same day they heard Trump administration Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke bemoan a “breach of trust” between the public and the federal government in the West, the region’s governors called for changes in a federal law they say bears some of the blame for that breach. The Western Governors Association adopted a resolution at their annual meeting…
Ken Buck’s ‘Drain the Swamp’ book about Washington corruption names names, rips the dome off the Capitol

Apr 20, 2017

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Ernest Luning

When U.S. Rep. Ken Buck first arrived in Washington, D.C., after winning election to Congress in 2014, it was the most amazing thing. “You would think that you were in Vienna in some sort of fairy tale,” the Windsor Republican said. “The Army choir is singing, the filet mignon is on the plate, the speaker…
Industry once again challenges the mouse that roared

Apr 3, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

The loved and loathed Preble’s meadow jumping mouse was thought to be on its way to extinction when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared it “threatened” under the federal Endangered Species Act in 1998. Of course, the designation assumed the critter really was a distinct species in the first place. And there’s the rub: Critics of the nearly two-decade-old…
Show will go on at UCCS for freewheeling, PC-bashing Milo Yiannopoulos …

Jan 26, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

… and you have to wonder if it’s despite – or because of – the outcry against his appearances across the country. Of course, that’s not to suggest the right-wing comedian/showman/political agitator has to rely on the kind of paid ringers who used to picket racy movies in the old days to lure a bigger audience. Milo Yiannopoulos is his…
Gardner asks Colorado Farm Bureau for advice; Don Shawcroft has plenty

Jan 12, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner from Yuma sent a letter Tuesday asking Colorado Farm Bureau President Don Shawcroft for advice on congressional priorities that would be good for agriculture and the communities around it. “With various commodity prices dropping close to 20 percent between 2013 and 2015, I would like to know what legislative priorities you…
Obama administration considers mining limits in West to save sage grouse in ’11th-hour attack’

Dec 30, 2016

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Dan Elliott

The Obama administration offered five possible plans Thursday for limiting mining on federal land in the West to protect the vulnerable greater sage grouse, but it isn’t saying which it prefers. The options range from banning new mining activity on about 15,000 square miles for up to 20 years to imposing no additional restrictions on…
The Hot Sheet – Hillary or JAIL, trading for ‘Trump-icaide,’ Colorado hits the numbers, AGs take Obama to court (sort of) and … MORE!

Dec 14, 2016

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Colorado Politics

VOL. 01 NO. 205 | DECEMBER 14, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 DENVER – Somewhere in between the holiday parties and shopping, we hope you’re able to squeeze in a little bit more political speculation, because … ’tis the season. It appears (at least to us) that no political savvy gathering is complete without discussing…
Settlement forces feds to decide whether nine species endangered

Aug 31, 2016

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Matthew Brown

The U.S. government agreed Tuesday to decide over the next several years if federal protections are needed to help a small, fanged predator of the Northern Rockies, massive alligator snapping turtles in the South and seven other troubled species that in some cases have awaited action for years. Deadlines for the decisions were detailed in…