NewsRack: 'Policy' news in 'Biodiversity-Regional' topic for user flenvcenter

Pitkin County OK with Windstar property sale	18.6.2013	Headlines: All Headlines
ASPEN —The sale of the Windstar property in April didn't violate any conditions of a conservation easement held by Pitkin County, according to the County Attorney's Office.
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Poll: Residents of Colorado and West favor conservation over drilling	18.6.2013	Denver Post: News: Local
Poll: Residents of Colorado and West favor conservation over drilling
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Conservation goals in Jackson Hole collide with a need for worker housing	10.6.2013	High Country News Most Recent
In Wyoming's top resort town, the desire to protect the environment and the community's character kills big affordable housing projects.
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Gray wolves to be removed from endangered species list	8.6.2013	From the Blogs
Enviros call the proposal premature; sportsmen's groups offer praise
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Louis Bacon cuts conservation-easement deal involving Tercio Ranch	6.6.2013	Headlines: All Headlines
Louis Bacon's Tercio Ranch Holdings and Red River Ranch Holdings have announced a deal with Colorado Open Lands to place 21,000 acres of Tercio Ranch and Red River Ranch into perpetual
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Scientists examine the ethics of reviving extinct animal species	2.6.2013	Denver Post: National News Headlines
The world's last passenger pigeons perished a century ago. But a Santa Cruz-based research project could send them flocking into the skies again, using genetic engineering to restore the
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BLM energy leasing decision prompts lawsuit threat	29.5.2013	Headlines: All Headlines
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—Seven conservation groups plan to sue the Bureau of Land Management for making more than 1,200 square miles available for potential oil shale and tar sands leasing in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
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Feds keep Preble's mouse on threatened list	24.5.2013	Denver Post: News: Local
Feds keep Preble's mouse on threatened list
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It's Endangered Species Day!	17.5.2013	High Country News Most Recent
40 years on and the ESA continues to have growing pains
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Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island	17.5.2013	Denver Post: National News Headlines
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Political and business leaders are gathering on a billionaire's private island Friday to back a program aimed at expanding protection for the Caribbean's imperiled coasts and waters.
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Saving Utah’s sage grouse	11.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Mark Salvo And Allison Jones Published May 11, 2013 01:01AM MDT Greater sage grouse endure icy winters and blazing summers on the high desert, subsisting on little more than wildflowers and tiny, bitter sagebrush leaves. Some flocks migrate over a hundred miles annually between summer and winter habitat. But every spring they arrive faithfully to their dancing grounds, called leks, to stage flamboyant mating displays. The largest grouse in North America, sage grouse are amazing birds. Nineteenth century travelers reported seeing huge flocks of sage grouse th... ...
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Grizzlies back from the brink?	10.5.2013	From the Blogs
Now there’s a plan in case they are delisted
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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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Changing of the guard at the Department of Interior	16.4.2013	High Country News Most Recent
A look back and a look ahead as Ken Salazar hands the reins to Sally Jewell.
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The life and rituals of Northwest Colorado’s native grouse	14.4.2013	Steamboat Pilot
To catch a grouse in its mating dance, you have to wake long before the break of dawn and travel to a lek, likely finishing the journey on foot.
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Three questions Denver Water's conservation manager	13.4.2013	Denver Post: Lifestyles
Denver Water's voluntary goal for customers in this drought year is for each one to cut water use by 20 percent.
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Community Agricultural Alliance: Mitigating drought impacts	12.4.2013	Steamboat Pilot
Agricultural producers in Colorado are facing one of the worst droughts in U.S. history with more than half of the state falling into the exceptional or extreme drought categories.
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Box Elder adopts state’s first sage grouse plan	10.4.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 10, 2013 11:43AM MDT Brigham City • Poisoning ravens, pulling out pinyon and juniper, controlling noxious cheat grass and fire prevention are the hallmarks of a pilot program the Box Elder Commission endorsed Tuesday in a formal bid to forestall listing of the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act. Commissioners unveiled the plan in a packed meeting room in Brigham City’s historic courthouse where federal, state and local officials showered praise on this effort. The plan makes little reference to ov... ...
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‘Port Gamble Predicament’ inches toward resolution	9.4.2013	From the Blogs
A tribe and a former timber company get closer to a conservation deal in Washington
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Montana's Rep. Steve Daines warms up to conservation	2.4.2013	High Country News Most Recent
A conservative reaches across the aisle to support the North Fork Watershed Protection Act
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