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Feds propose selling former national monument lands
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By Darryl Fears and Dino Grandoni | The Washington Post The Trump administration is proposing to dispose of federal land in Utah that was protected within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument until its boundary was redrawn by the Interior Department earlier this year – despite Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s assurance last year that he would…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Santa Fe fiesta to drop conquistador reenactment
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New Mexico Reenactment of conquistador reclaiming Santa Fe will end SANTA FE – An annual reenactment of a 17th-century Spanish conquistador reclaiming Santa Fe from Native Americans after an uprising will end amid protests that it whitewashed a dark period in New Mexico history. Organizers of the annual Fiesta de Santa Fe said they would…
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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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Advocacy group’s new poll shows western voters value public lands
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A new poll from an environmental advocacy organization suggests western voters feel strongly about preserving public lands. The Denver-based Center for Western Priorities’ poll, Winning the West, asked those who were questioned online to weigh in on issues involving public lands, parks and wildlife. Republicans, Democrats and unaffiliated voters were surveyed. Among the results: The full…
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Bennet to Trump administration: Hear from the courts before chewing on Bears Ears
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Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is telling the Trump administration to tap the brakes on its fast-moving plan to open up portions of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah for mining and drilling, until the courts have a say. He and 15 other Democratic senators sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke…
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Sen. Michael Bennet introduces bill to protect national monuments
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There’s a land rush starting today in Utah that at least one Colorado senator wants to make certain never happens in his state. Miners are staking claims to parcels of land in large swaths of what formerly was about 2 million acres of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, along Colorado’s southwest…
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Colorado College poll: More support for outdoors, little for Trump’s policies
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(Editor’s note: This story was updated with comments from the luncheon to release the poll and analyze its contents.) Colorado College’s Conservation in the West Poll released Thursday shows a big gain in the number of Coloradans and Westerners, in general, who consider themselves conservationists. A little over one-third think President Trump is doing a…
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Trump’s reduction of national monuments draws impassioned reactions in Colorado
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WASHINGTON – Colorado’s environmentalists and Democratic politicians blasted President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that he would drastically reduce the size of two wilderness national monuments in Utah. Some asked whether federal land in Colorado would be next. “In Colorado, we value our lands because they are part of our fabric and they strengthen local economies,”…
