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Guest Commentary: Forest policy is effective	10.5.2013	Denver Post: Opinion
As fire season bears down, political leaders gathered in Denver this week urge additional action on wildfires.
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Study of rare hops-loving blue butterfly gets boost from brewer	10.5.2013	Headlines: All Headlines
A quarter-sized butterfly with blue-and-purple wings and rarely seen along Colorado's Front Range is a mystery to researchers who only know that it loves hops even more than the state's legions of beer geeks.
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Rare beetle getting more room to roam at Coral Pink Sand Dunes	4.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 3, 2013 06:47PM MDT State and federal officials are expanding conservation zones in the Coral Pink Sand Dunes to further protect a rare beetle, narrowing the portion of the dunes available to off-road vehicles. Announced Friday, the move is hoped to secure additional habitat for the Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed for protection under the Endangered Species Act. The agency is to decide by the end of September whether to list the beetle as threatened. Such a ... ...
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Federal report: Many causes for disappearance of honeybees	3.5.2013	Denver Post: National News Headlines
The devastation of American honeybee colonies is the result of a complex stew of factors, including pesticides, parasites, poor nutrition and a lack of genetic diversity, according to a comprehensive federal study published Thursday.
Community Agriculture Alliance: Routt entering new era of forest restoration	20.4.2013	Steamboat Pilot
For more than a decade, Routt National Forest managers have directed much of their attention to the mountain pine beetle epidemic that has resulted in mortality of mature pine species across approximately 4 million acres in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming.
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Black-backed woodpeckers and severe fire	17.4.2013	High Country News Most Recent
Could an Endangered Species Act listing spark a national debate over wildfire?
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Yea or nay?	6.3.2013	From the Blogs
Second call for bills affecting public lands in the West
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Lowry: The beetle and the pipeline	6.3.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Rich Lowry The National Review Published Mar 5, 2013 05:55PM MDT When progressives talk of government, it is in an alluring can-do spirit. Making the case for more spending, President Barack Obama invokes the 19th century as a heroic age that built government-supported railroads. MSNBC hosts pose in front of monumental 20th-century public-works projects and speak of what all of us can do together. This is all well and good as nostalgia, but is utterly detached from the spirit and the practices of 21st-century government. We don’t excel at building things. We ... ...
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Two legs good, eight legs fascinating	5.3.2013	Writers on the Range
The author learned to love the spiders she used to kill.
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Pollinator problems	5.3.2013	From the Blogs
New research shows how much we rely on native bees and other pollinators.
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Canyonlands National Park faces invasive species issue (Cached)	31.12.2012	Durango Herald
CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK, Utah Larry Aberback studied the banks of the Colorado River in quiet reflection and then posed a question many of the others on the commercially guided float trip had silently wondered.
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Park faces a thorny issue	26.12.2012	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brett Prettyman The Salt Lake Tribune Published Dec 26, 2012 01:01AM MDT Fourth in an occasional series examining issues facing Utah’s national parks. Canyonlands National Park • Larry Aberback studied the banks of the Colorado River in quiet reflection and then posed a question many of the others on the commercially guided float trip had silently wondered. “What happened to all those dying bushes? Is it drought?” the elementary school teacher from New York City asked during a trip through Cataract Canyon in July. “It’s kind of sad.” Sad, in this case, is in the ... ...
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2001-02 drought fueled pine-beetle outbreak in Colorado	6.11.2012	Headlines: All Headlines
Drought in 2001-02 accelerated the tree-killing pine beetle outbreak in the Rocky Mountains — and a dry 2012 could spell more trouble for Colorado's pines, according to new research from the University of Colorado.
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'01-02 drought fueled pine-beetle outbreak	6.11.2012	Denver Post: News: Local
'01-02 drought fueled pine-beetle outbreak
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The pesticides you eat	2.11.2012	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brian Moench Published Nov 2, 2012 01:01AM MDT The election next week could change the rest of your life. No, not Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, but Proposition 37, the California “food fight.” You are what you eat, and Utahns should join the fight and encourage their friends and family in California — Democrats and Republicans — to vote yes on Prop 37. Prop 37 requires labeling of genetically modified food, or GMOs, as is the practice in 61 other countries. It’s simple, reasonable and most Californians are in favor. But the downstream bene... ...
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‘Whitebark warriors’ have not yet begun to fight	28.10.2012	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brandon Loomis The Salt Lake Tribune Published Oct 28, 2012 01:01AM MDT South Pass, Wyo. • Four men stand on a grassy alpine plateau late after a camp dinner, ringed by silhouettes of the trees that give life to their passions. They are scientists, skiers, activists and backcountry addicts, and they’ve come to this glacially cooled refuge of the whitebark pine for hope and for data showing what bark beetles and climate change have colluded to inflict on the southern Wind River Range since their last visit a year ago. Standing on Blue Ridge in the October chill with... ...
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Dark days for for whitebarks — and for birds, bears and fish	28.10.2012	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brandon Loomis The Salt Lake Tribune Published Oct 28, 2012 01:01AM MDT Mount Puddingburn, British Columbia • Gray birds with black-and-white wings slash through the forest canopy, squawking and shoving one another from treetop pine cones. It’s a good cone crop this year in southwestern Canada, and the Clark’s nutcrackers are staging the kind of full-throated show that is rapidly fading from most of the West’s high country. They’re heckling and buzzing, their gullets bulging like those of fish-hoarding pelicans. They’re hauling pine seeds that they’ll bury here and ... ...
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Sen. Udall pushes for lowering cost of timber for sawmills	13.10.2012	Headlines: All Headlines
Colorado finally revived a timber mill on the Western Slope.But after one month at the mill, Montrose Wood Products chief Jim Neiman has found he can afford to run it only three days a week.
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Kane County pushing back on tiger beetle proposal	4.10.2012	Salt Lake Tribune
By Wendy Ogata The Salt Lake Tribune Published Oct 4, 2012 10:44AM MDT Kane County is not mincing words in articulating its position on a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to designate 2,200 acres of dunes there as “critical habitat” for the Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle. “We’re completely against it,” Commissioner Dirk Clayson said Wednesday. Clayson said the county heard two to three weeks ago about the proposal to list the beetle as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act and designate up to 70 percent of the Coral Pink Sand Dunes as critical ha... ...
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Tiger beetle unique to Utah proposed for listing as ‘threatened’	3.10.2012	Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune Published Oct 2, 2012 05:51PM MDT The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed listing the Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle as a threatened species and designating more than 2,000 acres in Kane County as critical habitat. This beetle species, the service notes, is found only at Coral Pink Sand Dunes west of Kanab and its estimated population has been in decline since 1992. The Center for Biological Diversity hailed the proposed listing, saying the beetle is threatened by off-highway vehicle use and climate change. “T... ...
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