Group: Ozone violation a first for Western Slope
Source: The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 09:55:14 -0700 | green-news
WildEarth Guardians said today the high ozone levels were detected at a monitor in Rangely, and trigger stricter air pollution controls and a mandate on the state to clean up the pollution. An emerging wintertime ozone problem in Rio Blanco...
Authority over faulty pipeline remains mystery
Source: The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-05-11 23:41:49 -0700 | green-news
The comments by Jim Milne, environmental manager for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, came in response to a question by Commissioner DeAnn Craig at the commission's meeting last week. Milne was providing an update on the investigation into...
Willoughby: Bear, mule deer have different problems, same solution
Source: Denver Post
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-05-11 23:30:19 -0700 | green-news
Font Resize Bears and mule deer continued to dominate the conversation among members of Colorado's Parks and Wildlife Commission (PWC) and the sportsmen's community at large during the monthly PWC meeting in Grand Junction on Thursday, albeit for converse reasons....
Printed letters, May 10, 2013
Source: The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-05-09 15:38:21 -0700 | green-news
Benzene levels exceeded the drinking water standard of 5.0 parts per billion (a more convenient abbreviation is 5.0 ppb). Previous tests were well below the 5.0 standard, but a recent test found 5.3 ppb. The standard to protect aquatic life...
Wildlife commission eyes emergency fishing regs at Harvey Gap
Source: The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 23:17:38 -0700 | green-news
Anglers at Harvey Gap Reservoir someday may have tiger muskies as part of their bag as Colorado Parks and Wildlife is proposing stocking the sterile predators in an effort to control the reservoir's northern pike population. Dave Buchanan Anglers at...
Rockfall closes Colorado Highway 133 near McClure Pass
Source: The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-05-05 13:56:33 -0700 | green-news
About 7 or 8 large rocks fell on the road about 9:30 a.m., creating a crater about two-feet deep, 12-feet long, and 10-feet wide, the release said. The two largest rocks were the size of a dump truck, the release...
Officials try to calm nerves over Parachute Creek leak
Source: The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 00:04:40 -0700 | green-news
Parachute Creek hasn't affected public health and is unlikely to do so in the future, a state health official told local residents Monday. We have technology to deal with any level of contamination from this site in groundwater and surface...
Smoke above Palisade is controlled burn
Source: The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-26 14:59:06 -0700 | green-news
Officials with the BLM, the town of Palisade, and the city of Grand Junction have teamed up on the advance planning of the burn, which will ignite the mostly oak brush on about 558 acres of town-owned property and 58...
Trying vines
Source: The Durango Herald
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-25 22:57:30 -0700 | green-news
Durango Herald Jesus Castillo, vineyard manager at Sutcliffe Vineyards in McElmo Canyon southwest of Cortez, said the vineyard burns wood in barrels when the temperature gets below freezing to protect the budding vines. I n the wine world, stress is...
Meeting planned on leak near Parachute
Source: The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-24 06:05:32 -0700 | green-news
Representatives from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Garfield County Public Health and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will attend to answer questions, review each agency's role in the investigation and cleanup...
Durango gets dusty, again
Source: The Durango Herald
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-17 00:18:17 -0700 | green-news
Durango Herald Get ready to wash your windows and cars again after another dust storm consumed the sky and air in Durango on Tuesday. A widespread dust storm clouded Durango-area skies and diminished air quality for the second time in...
Printed letters, April 16, 2013
Source: The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-16 11:44:33 -0700 | green-news
Looking at the proposed travel maps, it's clear the BLM tries to strike a balance between access and protection. Most of the miles of closures are duplicate routes or dead-end spurs. I went to a recent BLM open house and...
Colo. commission considering fish, hunting issues
Source: The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-11 06:09:15 -0700 | green-news
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission is considering fish and hunting issues...They plan to tour the Native Aquatic Species Hatchery, review state trail grants and get an update on hunter and angler trends in Colorado. The Colorado Parks and Wildlife...
Drought hits deer with a ‘double whammy'
Source: The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-10 00:23:38 -0700 | green-news
Wintering deer depend on a year's new growth on sagebrush and other brush to survive. When drought slows or prevents that new growth, the animals are forced to eat less-nutritious plants, which can lead to starvation. Special to the Sentinel...
Orchardists bracing for hard freeze
Source: The Daily Sentinel
Grand Junction :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-04-08 22:32:09 -0700 | green-news
Jose Cervantes prunes cherry trees in an orchard east of Palisade. Orchardists in the valley are watching the temperatures in the area, with a forecast low this morning of 23 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. This early in...
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