National Park Service kills controversial plan to ban climbing bolts in wilderness areas
Effort sought to allow local land managers to classify anchors as ‘permanent installations’
DATE: Dec 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
Jason Blevins
Position: The Colorado Sun
Southern Colorado ski hill, closed for 24 years, gets $250K boost
State grant will help fund operations while volunteers work on a chairlift
DATE: Dec 16, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Jeff Hurd wants to bring the BLM back to Grand Junction
Trump moved agency to Colorado in 2020, but Biden moved it back to Washington D.C.
DATE: Nov 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Colorado hits the top 10 in the country’s $1.2 trillion outdoor recreation economy
Bureau of Economic Analysis counted 132,594 outdoor recreation workers in Colorado in 2023
DATE: Nov 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Business
Forest Service won’t hire seasonal workers next year
Agency warns volunteer groups not to expect big projects
DATE: Nov 20, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News
The best time to pay for Colorado skiing is before the lifts start spinning
Sky-high walk-up ticket prices and discounts for early buyers at Colorado resorts mean that skiing has never been more expensive or more affordable
DATE: Oct 16, 2024 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
Telluride ends discounted and free skiing for seniors
Purgatory and Sunlight are last two Colorado ski areas to offer free season passes to octogenarians
DATE: Sep 27, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News
Canada promises Colorado 15 gray wolves for next wave of reintroduction
CPW officials and wolf advocates cheer promise of wolves from British Columbia
DATE: Sep 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Colorado’s plan to trap, relocate wolves ‘did not go well’ for Montana wildlife officials
“What we learned was that the adults did not stay together and pups were abandoned and left to die,” says federal official in charge of wolf translocations in Montana in the 1990s
DATE: Sep 1, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Golden bike maker sues Gates Corp. over unpaid royalties for bike frame invention
Spot Brand says it’s owed millions in unpaid royalties
DATE: Aug 16, 2024 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
At least 32 have died in Colorado waters this summer. State loaning life jackets, upping citations to slow pace
The season’s tally of water fatalities include 17 deaths in reservoirs and 15 in moving water. CPW has issued 430 tickets for PFD violations so far this year
DATE: Jul 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Federal ‘land grab’ or conservation? U.S. senator visits Dolores River to weigh in
Opponents fear a national monument will curtail access and draw crowds; supporters say it will help manage impacts
DATE: Jun 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
