wilderness areas
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Colorado Sierra Club endorses Jared Polis in governor’s race
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The Colorado Sierra Club threw its weight behind Democrat Jared Polis in the four-way gubernatorial primary on Thursday, citing the five-term congressman’s record on environmental and climate change policy and his pledge to move the state toward 100-percent renewable energy sources over the next two decades. The environmental group, which counts more than 100,000 members…
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Dems say fat chance that fat tires will tread on federal wilderness areas
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Doesn’t matter that Republicans control both the U.S. House and (just barely) the Senate; minority Democrats are convinced a GOP bill that would allow mountain bikes inside federally designated wilderness areas, including Colorado’s, is going nowhere. That’s despite the bill’s passage Wednesday on a near-party-line vote by the House Committee on Natural Resources, reports the Aspen…
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Bill would end longstanding ban on bikes in U.S. wilderness
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More than 100 million acres of America’s most rugged landscapes designated as wilderness are off-limits to mountain bikers, but two Utah senators have introduced legislation that would allow bikers to join hikers and horseback riders in those scenic, undisturbed areas. The proposal is controversial within the biking community and opposed by conservationists who say bikes…
