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Insights: Hiking national park fees picks winners and losers

Nov 9, 2017

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Teddy Roosevelt, the Republican father of our national parks, said it in 1906. “The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books,” the old Rough Rider said. That’s why you find Teddy Roosevelt, and not Franklin Delano Roosevelt, creator…

Interior Department to recommend revisions to sage-grouse protection plans in Colorado, 10 other Western states

Sep 29, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration reportedly will announce revised plans for protecting the greater sage-grouse as soon as this week in what conservationists criticize as a giveaway to the oil and gas industry. The formal notice of intent would amend 98 habitat management plans in 11 Western states, including Colorado, according to an advance copy…

Bennet mixes Colorado water and climate change in Steamboat Springs

Aug 28, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Sen. Michael Bennet is urging Coloradans to remember their children and grandchildren when it comes to climate change. But he also reached out to those whose livelihoods have been affected by the nation’s migration to renewable energy and away from coal. Bennet, a Denver Democrat and centrist in the U.S. Senate, spoke about the challenges…

Feds’ vague plan keeps monuments, including Canyons of the Ancients

Aug 24, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

The long-awaited review of national monuments designated by other presidents over the last two decades landed, sort of, Thursday. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he has sent President Trump a plan that would preserve all 27 monuments as federal assets, including Colorado’s Canyons of the Ancients, but some could shrink. The Interior Department didn’t release…

League of Conservation Voters spending big against Lamborn on public lands

Aug 17, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

The League of Conservation Voters, a left-leaning environmental group, plans to spend $100,000 on ads to “urge” Rep. Doug Lamborn, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and other three other members to Congress to back off national monuments. Zinke is reviewing large national monuments designated by presidents since 1996, including the Bears Ears National Monument in southeast…

Staff picks: Colorado Politics’ top 5 stories as Republicans do Denver

Jul 24, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

With some of the top Republicans in the nation in the Mile High City this week for the American Legislative Exchange Council and the Western Conservative Summit, news moved swiftly as D.C. came to Denver. Here are the stories that Colorado Politics’ staff thinks had the biggest impact. Agree? Disagree? Comment below. 5. Republican pedaling,…

Ryan Zinke in Denver makes a case for energy production on public lands

Jul 22, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told the Western Conservative Summit Friday night that America should open up its public lands and shores for more energy production. “I can tell ya, the war on American energy is over,” said the former Montana congressman who is chief steward of the nation’s parks and public lands. He received…

Lessons for Secretary Zinke and western politicians from the Outdoor Retailer Show

Jul 21, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

The recent announcement that the massive Outdoor Retailer trade show is moving to Denver from Salt Lake City after 25 years in Utah was a coup that sent shockwaves through the recreation, political and conservation spheres. The show will pump millions of dollars into Colorado’s economy, but more importantly, it establishes the Centennial State as…

Zinke to speak at Western Conservative Summit, after private appearance at ALEC

Jul 20, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

The Trump administration is coming through, after all, at the Western Conservative Summit this weekend in Denver, and in a huge way. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will speak at the mega-gathering of the country’s top conservatives at the Colorado Convention Center Friday. On Monday Jeff Hunt, the director of the Centennial Institute, which puts on…

Generation Latino takes environmental message to Springs, Pueblo

Jul 20, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Generation Latino is taking a message to Colorado Springs and Pueblo: The Latino community has a lot at stake in environmental conservation. Advocates and leaders will gather petition signatures defending public lands in the Springs Thursday morning and meet with the staff of Sen. Cory Gardner at his office in Pueblo Thursday afternoon. The event…