preble’s meadow jumping mouse

  • Lamborn takes another shot at Preble’s meadow jumping mouse

    Lamborn takes another shot at Preble’s meadow jumping mouse

    After efforts failed this year to remove the Preble’s meadow jumping most from the federal threatened species list, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn is trying to make federal money that protects it extinct. The Republican from Colorado Springs got an amendment into the proposed Interior Department budget this week to prohibit using its budget to enforce…


  • Industry once again challenges the mouse that roared

    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…


  • Developer funds could help Dinosaur Ridge group

    Some improvements and benefits to the popular and world-renowned Dinosaur Ridge and its visitors center could result from the development of part of the Alameda Parkway and C-470 interchange in Jefferson County. The county’s planning commission held a four-hour long public hearing Wednesday night, Dec. 7, followed by a more than three-hour meeting the next…


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