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Ritter names King to head up Department of Natural Resources

By | 05.05.10 | 6:50 pm

The Ritter administration Wednesday tapped Department of Natural Resources deputy director Mike King to take over for DNR executive director Jim Martin, who was picked by the Obama administration last month to head up the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s…

Ritter administration’s Martin named regional head of EPA

By | 04.21.10 | 4:11 pm

Jim Martin, named just last fall to head the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, has been appointed regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region VIII office, Gov. Bill Ritter’s office announced Wednesday.

Martin formerly headed up the…

Colorado’s vast beetle-kill pine forests threaten power grid

By | 11.03.09 | 7:46 am

One of the least-publicized aspect of the mountain pine bark beetle epidemic, which has decimated nearly 2 million acres of trees in Colorado, is the threat it poses to the region’s power grid. Whole mountainsides of dead and toppling trees throughout the state raise the specter of disaster on the scale of the great Northeast Blackout of 2003.

Praise for Martin pick at DNR; Obama Colorado College connection continues

By | 10.27.09 | 12:31 pm

Members of Colorado’s environmental community liked the selection Monday by Gov. Bill Ritter of Jim Martin, head of the Department of Public Health and Environment, to take over for Harris Sherman as executive director of the Colorado Department of…

CDPHE head Martin takes over for Sherman as natural resources director

By | 10.26.09 | 2:45 pm

Gov. Bill Ritter Monday announced Jim Martin, head of the Department of Public Health and Environment, will take over for Harris Sherman as executive director of the Department of Natural Resources.

Sherman earlier this month was confirmed by the

Unofficial Colorado Roadless Week rolls on with Sherman hearing, rally

By | 09.30.09 | 11:00 am

In what the Pew Environment Group has dubbed “Unofficial Colorado Roadless Week,” opponents of the state’s controversial policy aimed at protecting 4.4 million acres of mostly undeveloped public lands will converge on Denver’s Civic Center Park at noon on…

Water gurus converge to slake thirst of exploding Colorado population

By | 09.29.09 | 2:17 pm

Water experts are meeting en masse in Denver today and Wednesday to try to figure out how to plan for an expected doubling of Colorado’s population to 10 million people by 2050, according the Durango Herald.

State water officials,…

Love it, hate it: Conservationists split on Sherman pick to head USFS

By | 09.10.09 | 4:10 pm

Some conservationists praised the Obama administration’s nomination Thursday of Harris Sherman to the post of Undersecretary of Natural Resources and Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Others aren’t quite so sure the two-time head of the Colorado Department of…

Feds accused of playing ‘Rulison Roulette’ by drilling near nuclear blast site

By | 07.16.09 | 8:13 am

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Marion Wells lives about 10 miles from “ground zero” in Garfield County, the Project Rulison blast site where a 43-kiloton nuclear device was exploded nearly 8,500 feet underground in 1969 in an effort to free up commercially viable natural gas.

Sherman mentioned for USDA post, but roadless rule could be roadblock

By | 06.12.09 | 8:11 am

Harris Sherman, director of Colorado’s Department of Natural Resources, is being floated as a possible candidate for a Department of Agriculture undersecretary post that oversees the U.S. Forest Service and the Natural Resources and Conservation Service.

But environmental groups are already casting doubt on the possible pick, questioning Sherman’s role in moving Colorado’s controversial roadless rule forward.