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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – A federal judge has rejected a request from a group of Apaches to keep the U.S. Forest Service from transferring a parcel of land to a copper mining company. Apache Stronghold...
DATE: Feb. 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
DENVER (AP) – Grand Lake Fire Marshal Dan Mayer never thought the East Troublesome Fire would make it to town. On the morning of Oct. 21, the fire was about 20 miles away from the vacation spot on...
DATE: Feb. 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Record bird sightings and two newly documented species were spotted during the 2020 Cortez Christmas Bird Count on Dec. 26, according to final results. “We had a great turnout this year, and a lot...
DATE: Feb. 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
President Joe Biden’s temporary freeze on new oil and gas leases on public lands has halted the sale of 10 parcels totaling more than 1,500 acres around the HD Mountains, east of Bayfield. The...
DATE: Feb. 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Apache tribal members made emotional pleas Wednesday in federal court to try to prevent what could become the largest copper mine operation in the U.S. Naelyn Pike and her...
DATE: Feb. 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
An experienced national park ranger from Arizona has been hired as the new permanent manager for Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Southwest Colorado. Ray O’Neil of Tucson, Arizona, has...
DATE: Jan. 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
The U.S. Forest Service this summer will launch an extensive study of the Mineral Creek watershed west of Silverton, an area that has been bombarded in recent years with campers and hikers headed...
DATE: Jan. 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
SALT LAKE CITY – President Joe Biden said Wednesday he plans to review the Trump administration’s downsizing of two sprawling national monuments in the American Southwest, including one on lands...
DATE: Jan. 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The U.S. Forest Service released an environmental review Jan. 15 that paves the way for the creation of one of the largest copper mines in the United States, against the wishes...
DATE: Jan. 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
For Dan Caplin with Colorado Addiction Treatment Services, treating people addicted to opioids is complicated to say the least. “This is so multifactorial,” he said, before listing about 10 local...
DATE: Jan. 21, 2021 | CATEGORY: Health
The world’s vital insect kingdom is undergoing “death by a thousand cuts,” the world’s top bug experts said. Climate change, insecticides, herbicides, light pollution, invasive species and changes...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) – Scott Fitzwilliams was supposed to be off work. But as supervisor of America’s most trafficked national forest, “you’re never off work,” he said. So there he was Fourth of...
DATE: Jan. 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
