Tag: Wildlife
Guest Post: NIMBYs are Earth Warriors
Last weekend I stood in the back yard of a mountain house overlooking the massive proposed expansion of Gross Dam in western Boulder County....
Inside Colorado’s ‘hotbed’ of wildlife conflict Documents show flawed management leads...
ANALYSIS
A frozen, severed head arrived at the lab.
The bighorn sheep’s horns, splattered with bright red blood, curled tightly around its face. Its open eyes...
Agricultural interests steer Colorado’s wildlife management
These days, any search for bighorn sheep in southwestern Colorado is an exercise in desperation. Bighorn hunters and advocates must train their eyes on...
Interior’s new sage grouse recommendations at a glance
Editor's note: Increased development has reduced the national sage grouse population from millions to less than 500,000 birds, currently spread across 10 Western states,...
Thousands of fish die in Colorado, amid flood recovery projects
Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials now confirm that more than 5,600 fish, mostly rainbow and brown trout, died in the Big Thompson and its North Fork, and are blaming concrete from a bridge reconstruction project, part of the state’s massive recovery and reconstruction effort following the devastating September 2013 floods.
Feds ignore science, backpedal on wolverine protection
One of the rarest animals in the West won't get any special protection for now, as federal officials ignored their own researchers and withdrew a 2010 proposal to put wolverines on the endangered species list.
Judge sends BLM back to drawing board to consider Roan Plateau...
A federal judge ruled Friday that a Bush-era auction of gas leases on the Roan Plateau failed to adequately address its environmental impacts or entertain alternative, less-intrusive drilling plans.
BLM to defer disputed auction for oil, gas leases in tranquil...
The Bureau of Land Management is deferring all parcels associated with the August oil and gas lease sale in the North Fork Valley.
Forest Service pumps brakes on coal mine expansion into Colorado roadless...
The U.S. Forest Service overturned a decision Monday to approve the expansion of a coal mine in western Colorado that biologists feared would destroy wildlife habitat.
Gubernatorial candidates address conservation issues
Several conservation, sportsmen and wildlife groups in Colorado asked the state’s three gubernatorial candidates, Democrat John Hickenlooper, Republican Dan Maes and American Constitution Party...