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Environment/Energy

Oil Shale Series, Part I: The Rock That Burns

Once upon a time around Rifle, Colorado, a rancher decided to use an attractive light brown shale type rock marbled in black to build...

White River National Forest Releases Draft Travel Plan

The biggest challenge in updating the White River National Forest (WRNF) draft travel plan is not ski area development or managing oil and gas...

Don’t Blame the Beetles

At a Senate hearing yesterday Sen. Ken Salazar (R-CO) got tough with the Bush Administration about not spending enough money to deal with bark...

Colorado Supreme Court Mulls Watershed Protection

The Colorado Supreme Court agreed to consider two questions related to whether the Town of Carbondale, Colorado, a municipality with home rule powers, has...
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