Forests next to Colorado’s iconic West Elk Wilderness Area provide habitat for the threatened lynx, support the Sunset Trail, a backcountry hiking and horseback trail, and provides a valuable linkage between the West Elk Wilderness Area and lowland forests along the North Fork of the Gunnison River. For years, conservation groups have battled an exemption…
The injunction prevents Mountain Coal from further destruction of the roadless forest in the West Elk Mountains until a challenge from conservation groups is resolved
Will the Forest Service’s legacy be to protect our public lands to be enjoyed by all? Or to sacrifice them for long-term climate costs and a single coal company's short-term profits?
In a move that will undercut America’s clean energy industries, U.S. Forest Service opens 20,000 acres of national forest in Colorado to bulldozing roads for coal mining
U.S. Forest Service issues final environmental impact statement on plan to open 20,000 acres of national forest in Colorado to bulldozing roads for coal mining; move has huge climate costs, but benefits only one mine
Photos by the Forest Service—obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request—give graphic evidence of underground coal mining’s impacts on Colorado landscapes that provide a home for black bear and elk, beaver and the elusive lynx.
Autumn’s beauty was on full display in Colorado’s aspen forests late last month. So was the Obama administration’s schizophrenic approach to climate and public lands policy.