Tag: U.S. Forest Service
Neguse: Feds should give states more say in burn bans on...
WASHINGTON — Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse has urged the U.S. government to give states more power to ban burning on federal land in an...
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...
Breckenridge locals, EPA groan over Vail Resorts summer expansion plan
FRISCO — Imagine summertime two years from now at Breckenridge Ski Area: Zip-lines; jeep and tree-top canopy tours; observation towers; up to 15 miles...
Colorado’s forgotten forest
FRISCO — Colorado's verdant high country spruce and fir forests get all the glory on the cover of tourist brochures, but the state's most...
Despite setback, former federal lands officials urge Salazar to stay course...
Former top federal public lands officials are urging the Obama administration to stay the course on onshore oil and gas leasing reforms despite a major setback from a U.S. district judge in Wyoming earlier this month.
Udall, Bennet seek EPA ‘Good Samaritan’ clarification, push for wildfire mitigation
U.S. Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, both Colorado Democrats, sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson today seeking clarification on the EPA’s ability to facilitate third-party “Good Samaritan” cleanups of critical watersheds contaminated by hard-rock mining.
Pine beetle epidemic grows to more than 4 million acres in...
The U.S. Forest Service Friday released the results of new aerial mapping showing the mountain pine bark beetle epidemic raging since the mid 1990s has now consumed more than 4 million acres of pine trees in Colorado and southern Wyoming. In Colorado alone, more than 400,000 acres of trees were killed last year, mostly in the Arapaho, White River, Roosevelt, Medicine Bow and Routt national forests.
Vilsack says EPA biomass boiler decision could help reduce wildfire threat
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today praised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for delaying for three years carbon dioxide emissions permits for biomass boilers that convert wood and other plant material into energy. The move is significant in Colorado because backers of biomass energy say that more 2 million acres of national forest land hit hard by a mountain pine park beetle epidemic could be tapped to generate hot-water heat and electricity that would actually replace dirtier fuel sources like coal and natural gas. The EPA delay makes that process more realistic.
Udall ski-area alternative activity bill clears committee vote
Sen. Mark Udall’s bill to promote year-round recreation at ski areas cleared a critical committee vote late last week and is headed to a...
Vail snubbed by DOE in bid to build biomass power plant
In the end, it may not be NIMBYism or environmentalist objections to producing power by burning trees that dooms Vail’s proposed biomass power plant....