the wilderness society
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Colorado senators support extending nation’s main conservation program
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There’s bipartisan support for a bill that would permanently reinstitute a longstanding conservation measure, protecting the nation’s parks and wildlife refuges from development. Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner are co-sponsors of a piece of legislation introduced earlier this month by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) that would permanently reauthorize the Land and Water…
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US withdraws western Colorado land from oil, gas lease sale
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The federal government has withdrawn about 43 square miles (110 square kilometers) of public land from a June auction for oil and gas leases in western Colorado after challenges were filed. The Bureau of Land Management said Monday the land is in Grand County near Rocky Mountain National Park. The Grand County commissioners, a dude…
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Gorsuch rulings show view of conservationists as obstructionists
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On the federal appeals court in Denver, Judge Neil Gorsuch tends to see environmental groups in lawsuits as more a problem than part of the solution. The Association Press reviewed his decisions involving public lands during his decade on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, hearing cases from Colorado and five other Western states. Gorsuch has…
