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VIDEO: Sen. Michael Bennet has strong local backing for San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act
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With southwest Colorado leaders behind him, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet will try again to extend protections to about 61,000 acres in the San Juan Mountains, home to some of the state’s highest peaks and most breathtaking landscapes. San Miguel County Commissioner Hilary Cooper was in Washington Thursday and as Bennet, the Democrat from Denver, introduced…
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Bill on Great Outdoors Colorado gets opposition based on prairie dogs, coyotes
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Cole Wist, the House assistant minority leader, thought it would be easy Thursday morning when he brought the bill to effectively extend funding for Great Outdoors Colorado to the floor for preliminary approval. Senate Bill 66 reauthorizes a state agency that collects and disperses money from the state lottery. The Colorado Lottery Division is expected to…
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Trout Unlimited says Trump’s new BLM lease plan is bad for fishing
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Anglers and environmentalists say President Trump’s plan to reshape the federal lease approval process for oil and gas is a means to muzzle their concerns. The plan will “hand over public lands to the oil and gas industries,” according to the Wilderness Society. The Interior Department released a memo Thursday instructing its field offices “to…
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Colorado-based uranium company played a role in reducing national monument
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A lobbying effort to reduce the size of the Bears Ears National Monument was churning since the spring in Colorado, the Washington Post reported last week. Lakewood-based Energy Fuels Resources hired lobbyists and made a low-profile federal case that a federal umbrella over 1.35 million acres in southeast Utah could hurt its ability to operate…
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Insights: Hiking national park fees picks winners and losers
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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…
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Feds’ vague plan keeps monuments, including Canyons of the Ancients
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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…
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Lessons for Secretary Zinke and western politicians from the Outdoor Retailer Show
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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…
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Bears Ears prompts Bennet to challenge USDA on protecting monument’s forests
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Colorado’s Sen. Michael Bennet wants to know if the U.S. Forest Service is asleep at the switch as the Trump administration aims to trim Bears Ears National Monument. Bennet and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat from Michigan, sent a letter Thursday to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who oversees the Forest Service, asking pointed questions about…
