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Vail Daily letter: Hikers only?
Vail :: CO :: USA | 1 day ago
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There are so many good folks out there who are not a bunch of agtear it upag nuts and who so strongly disagree with you about the positive merits of the Hidden Gem wilderness bill...I personally believe that we already have enough wilderness area and...
Tags: Vail Daily, daily letter, Vail, Wilderness, Environment, Ecology, Wishful thinking, Social Issues, Eagle County Colorado, Vail Colorado, Appeals to emotion, Human Interest, Free daily newspapers
Vail Valley Voices: Why Hidden Gems matter
Vail :: CO :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility I often reply that they are key to our economy, healthy wildlife, watersheds and forests. All very true, but I'd like to offer another more philosophical answer. These wild, untrammeled lands are as endangered as the lynx that is scratching to survive,...
Tags: wild lands, natural world, Vail, Environment, Ecology, Wildlife, Wilderness
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São Paulo :: Brazil | 2 days ago
Credibility Drill here, drill now On Aug. 22, we lost power for 45 minutes; a week later we lost power for more than three hours. These events made me ever more mindful of how much we depend on energy, how disruptive it is to be without it for even a short time,...
Tags: Brazil, São Paulo, Drill, Coal, Energy development, Energy, Wilderness
Wilderness plan hitting a few snags in Summit County
Frisco :: CO :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility An ambitious proposal to add thousands of acres of new wilderness to the White River National Forest has hit a few snags in recent months, including a letter from the Town of Breckenridge to Congressman Jared Polis citing concerns about wildfires and...
Tags: Summit County Breckenridge, wilderness plan, White River, mountain biking, wilderness proposal, Frisco, Catskills, Uncompahgre Wilderness, Ecology, Wilderness, Protected areas of the United States, Environment
Hidden Gems info sessions coming to Summit County
Frisco :: CO :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Jay will be available to answer both general and specific questions about the overall Hidden Gems proposal and the eight specific areas in Summit County that have been identified for protection. He will have maps and fact sheets on hand from 10 a.m.-...
Tags: Summit County, Frisco, Ecology, Wilderness
Vail Daily Editor Don Rogers: That's not just an engine whining
Vail :: CO :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility They'd still have a million acres of where they actually go available...They've got to have the 400,000 acres they don't use so much now or wouldn't be able to use anyway, too? The majority of forest users who prefer foot travel can't have part of the...
Tags: Vail Daily, million acres, Vail, Protected areas of the United States, Conservation in the United States, Eagle County Colorado, Vail Colorado, Wilderness, Environment
Vail Daily letter: No to Hidden Gems
Vail :: CO :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility The capacity of the meeting room was greatly exceeded and although two of the county commissioners and the county manager were present, there was nothing done to make sure the capacity did not exceed that allowed by the fire codes that these people promote.
Tags: Eagle County Administration Building, county commissioners, Vail, Eagle County Colorado, Vail Colorado, Wilderness, Environment
ENVIRONMENT: Listen to the Earth, Say Indigenous Peoples
Toronto :: Canada | 6 days ago
Credibility The idea of wilderness is "an interesting concept; it is a Western concept. Our people have always lived and interacted in the environment," said Illion Merculieff, an environmental activist from the Aleut community in the north-western U.S. state of...
Tags: Rose Mary Parente, U.S, Flathead Nation, flathead nationality, Brazilian Yawanaw, Canada, Toronto, World Wilderness Congress, Indigenous peoples by geographic regions, Ecology, Wilderness, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Environment
Parks should belong to dogs as well as people
Thousand Oaks :: CA :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility A zealous park volunteer on horseback informed me the park is designated as “state wilderness,” and dogs aren’t allowed in any state wilderness areas. According to him, they’re permitted only along the main road into the park. This is limiting and not...
Tags: Thousand Oaks, Sycamore Canyon, Ecology, Wilderness, Point Mugu State Park, Hospitality Recreation
Bishop: Environmental rules impeding border security
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility With the United States cracking down on immigrants coming through urban areas, Bishop says many of those crossing illegally are instead heading toward the less scrutinized areas of federal wilderness near the border -- some 4.3 million acres of it. But,...
Tags: border security, wilderness area, Interior and Agriculture, Interior Department, Janet Napalitano, impeding border, Forest Service, Salt Lake City, United States Department of Homeland Security, Homeland security, Mexico ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Ecology, Wilderness, Protected areas of the United States
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