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Does this fisherman have the right to be in this billionaire’s backyard?

By Louis Wertz | September 14, 2022

In 2018, Hill, 81, a retired nuclear weapons scientist, filed a lawsuit asking the state to clarify its notoriously muddy stream-access laws vis-à-vis one of his favorite trout fishing grounds. To the…

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“I’d Have to Bury You Out Here.” The New Mexico Stream Access Battle Is Far From Over

By Louis Wertz | August 14, 2022

The Western Landowners Alliance sees things differently. The alliance’s mission is to sustain working lands, connected landscapes, and native species, and executive director Lesli Allison says this argument is misguided.…

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CPW Commission hears SAG draft, public comment on wolves

By Louis Wertz | July 29, 2022

The Stakeholders Advisory Group delivered their draft report and recognize that wolves have both positive and negative impacts and will be allowed to remain where they are if they’re not…

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Water availability, regs spur farmland value chasm

By Zach Altman | March 29, 2022

It took a few years, but ag land values in California now reflect action taken by legislators eight years ago to pass the state’s landmark groundwater law. A growing chasm…

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Colorado hits a “hard pause” on water demand management as it waits for other states to catch up

By Zach Altman | March 25, 2022

Colorado is taking a “hard pause” on investigating the viability of demand management, a program that would allow the state to pay water users to temporarily and voluntarily conserve water…

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New Mexico agencies: defining conservation key to 30×30

By Zach Altman | March 18, 2022

Defining what it means to conserve land and assessing existing conservation projects will be key to meeting New Mexico’s climate goals, state agency leaders said this week. Sarah Cottrell Propst,…

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CPW no longer final arbiter of wolf reintroduction after court relists species as endangered

By Zach Altman | March 17, 2022

A federal court ruling in February relisting gray wolves as an endangered species across much of the United States could complicate Colorado’s wolf reintroduction effort.

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Race to the bottom: How big business took over Oregon’s first protected aquifer

By Zach Altman | March 16, 2022

In Malheur County’s Cow Valley, state regulators have ignored known issues with overpumping groundwater, leaving the region at risk of economic and ecological damage that will be difficult to reverse.

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Coloradans will now automatically be charged $29 for a state parks pass when they register their cars

By Zach Altman | March 11, 2022

Keep Colorado Wild pass will be $29 and require an opt-out during vehicle registration to avoid paying. The program could raise as much as $54M a year for State parks,…

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Conservationists hail $5 million investment in preserving Oregon’s farmland

By Zach Altman | March 10, 2022

As part of the supplemental budget approved in the short session, lawmakers invested $5 million in the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Program, which is tasked with preserving farmland. But since it…

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