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  • Conservation Colorado joins public lands fight for Outdoor Retailer show

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    JOEY BUNCH

    We told you last week that Utah is shaking in its hiking boots that Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is trying to lure away the twice annual Outdoor Retailer trade show from Utah. Now Conservation Colorado has his back. It seems some of the industry titans who produce outdoor gear aren’t crazy about the way some…

  • Tipton, Lamborn and Polis pass Colorado public lands bills

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    JOEY BUNCH

    Last week was Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner teaming up on legislation to promote Colorado’s public lands. This week it’s Reps. Doug Lamborn, Scott Tipton and Jared Polis doing the bipartisanship thing over state projects. Monday the House passed three bills led by Tipton, a Republican from Cortez, Lamborn, a Republican from Colorado Springs, and…

  • Outdoor trade show could tip to Colorado over public lands

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    JOEY BUNCH

    The  position some Utah leaders have taken on public lands has created an opportunity for Colorado to snag the Outdoor Retailer Show. The four-day show in Salt Lake City is the equivalent of New York Fashion Week for the energy bar crowd, and Gov. John Hickenlooper is prowling, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. The Outdoor Retailer…

  • Public lands would get a boost from Bennet, Gardner bills

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    JOEY BUNCH

    After the splash Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz made when he proposed then pulled a bill to sell off 3.3 million acres of public lands in 10 Western states this week, five bills by Colorado’s senators, Democrat Michael Bennet of Denver and Republican Cory Gardner of Yuma, seem awfully local. Bennet and Gardner announced the bills they’re…

  • Chaffetz cans bill to sell public lands, including Colorado’s

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    JOEY BUNCH

    U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz flirted with the idea of selling off 3,3 million acres of public lands in 10 Western states, including Colorado. The Republican from Utah introduced the Disposal of Federal Lands Act last week. Chaffetz backed off the deal this week, however. “I am withdrawing HR 621,” Chaffetz posted  on social  media late…

  • Poll shows strong support for public lands in Western states

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    JOEY BUNCH

    In a Colorado College poll released Tuesday, Mountain West voters were more than three times as likely to pick protecting water, air, critters and recreation on federal public lands than drilling and mining. The Colorado Springs college’s State of the Rockies Project released its seventh annual Conservation in the West poll of voters in Arizona, Colorado, Montana,…

  • Colorado College poll: Mountain West voters oppose public lands transfer

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    Ernest Luning

    Voters in the Mountain West like their public lands, and they don’t want them sold off or transferred to states, according to a comprehensive poll released Tuesday. By more than three-to-one, voters across seven states said they prefer that the Trump administration protects water, air quality, wildlife and access for recreation on public lands rather…

  • State Senate strikes positive notes on opening day, with hints of toxic national politics

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    John Tomasic

    On a day that started with political tension already running at a boiling point in one-party dominated Washington, the launch of another bipartisan legislative session on Wednesday in Denver looked like an especially good thing. Because the Colorado governor’s office and the state House are controlled by Democrats, the action at the Colorado Capitol this…

  • Colorado attorney general supports Bureau of Land Management leases

    Colorado attorney general supports Bureau of Land Management leases

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    Tom Ramstack

    Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman is throwing her support behind the U.S. Bureau of Land Management as it defends itself in court against environmentalists opposed to oil and gas development projects. The environmentalists are pursuing a federal lawsuit to halt Bureau of Land Management oil and gas leases in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. The oil…

  • Colorado public lands defender growling about Congress

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    JOEY BUNCH

    The Vail Valley’s mama grizzly over public lands isn’t taking the news well that the U.S. House is trying to make it easier for the federal government to deal away public lands. A Democrat, state Sen. Kerry Donovan’s family goes generations deep into fighting to preserve the beauty and natural vitality of Colorado high country.…

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