Bureau of Land Management
Republican lawmakers are increasingly turning to the Congressional Review Act to overturn federal agency decisions, including public lands management plans in Montana and Wyoming last year. But it has never before been used to target a national monument.
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Scott Franz/KUNCClimate change, and warmer winters, will have a major impact on Colorado’s ski industry. But Colorado’s major ski companies take different approaches when it comes to advocating for policies that might curb climate change. -
Hugh Carey/The Colorado SunThe Western U.S. is seeing an increasing number of wildfires that spread quickly and cause more destruction than a typical wildfire. And experts say so-called "fast fires” – like the 2021 Marshall Fire that burned around a thousand homes in Boulder county – are likely to increase in the coming years. A wildfire expert from CU Boulder explains what makes fast fires so dangerous, and how communities might respond differently to them.
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Congress returns this week to a Washington at war. -
Issues face both the Greeley city government and the developer in the wake of a voter repeal of city-approved planned-unit development zoning for the proposed Cascadia and Catalyst projects. -
A bill sponsored by Senator Cathy Kipp of Fort Collins died at the capitol last week. It was trying to close a loophole that gave Colorado State University the ability to step around local noise and billboard ordinances. CSU had paused its electronic billboard build-out before the proposal was axed. -
Winter can be a lonely time of year, especially in Colorado’s rural mountain communities. Some towns have few places to meet up. But a food pantry in Red Feather Lakes is becoming a community hub. -
Colorado quarterback Dominiq Ponder has died at age 23, according to coach Deion Sanders. Sanders announced Ponder's death in a social media post Sunday. -
The SEED Act would have restricted the use of neonicotinoid-coated seeds.
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Modern drones map farmland, inspect power lines and help fight wildfires across the Mountain West. Nationwide, the drone industry now employs more than 100,000 people — and demand for trained pilots continues to grow. -
The discovery in the Nevada desert could make a big difference to consumers in the future -
The legislature is looking at stopping SLAPPs, lawsuits meant to silence people who speak out, like journalists or whistleblowers. -
Steve Pearce, Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management, said he would not propose large-scale sales of public lands. -
The team, led by a Boise State University civil engineering researcher, looked at half a million wildfire starts, and hundreds of attributes about them. Beyond the obvious weather variables like wind speed, temperature and humidity, they also considered human factors like density of development. -
A new report finds 2025 brought widespread drought, massive wildfires and destructive windstorms across several Mountain West states — and underscores how closely connected those disasters have become.
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