Does this fisherman have the right to be in this billionaire’s backyard?
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…
Read More...“I’d Have to Bury You Out Here.” The New Mexico Stream Access Battle Is Far From Over
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.…
Read More...CPW Commission hears SAG draft, public comment on wolves
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…
Read More...Water availability, regs spur farmland value chasm
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…
Read More...Colorado hits a “hard pause” on water demand management as it waits for other states to catch up
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…
Read More...New Mexico agencies: defining conservation key to 30×30
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,…
Read More...CPW no longer final arbiter of wolf reintroduction after court relists species as endangered
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.
Read More...Race to the bottom: How big business took over Oregon’s first protected aquifer
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.
Read More...Coloradans will now automatically be charged $29 for a state parks pass when they register their cars
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,…
Read More...Conservationists hail $5 million investment in preserving Oregon’s farmland
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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