rssSnowless ski race helps connect dots between climate change, real problems
By Troy Hooper |
05.07.12 | 9:21 am
Gnarly terrain greeted a group of climate change activists in Aspen over the weekend.
Posts Tagged Wildfire
‘Flexibility’ the hallmark of preferred, controversial Colorado roadless rule
By Troy Hooper |
05.02.12 | 12:21 pm
The preferred plan to manage 4.2 million acres of roadless forests in Colorado will allow for more flexibility than the national rule. That additional flexibility will allow local communities to protect themselves from wildfires, ski areas to expand and coal mining companies to construct venting for methane in the North Fork Valley.
Small, aging fleet of air tankers worries Colorado senator in wake of early wildfires
By Troy Hooper |
04.13.12 | 1:48 pm
After an early start to Colorado’s wildfire season, U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is concerned that the Forest Service’s small, aging air tanker fleet isn’t capable of keeping civilians safe in a timely manner.
Report: Colorado not prepared for climate change
By Troy Hooper |
04.09.12 | 10:17 am
A shrinking ski season and impaired agriculture industry may be in Colorado’s future, but a new report warns the state’s preparations for climate change are disjointed and not nearly stringent enough.
Colorado’s snow-starved winter raises specter of worst wildfire season in 10 years
By Troy Hooper |
04.04.12 | 2:57 pm
The prescribed burn that roared out of control, claiming the lives of three nearby residents and scaring hundreds of others is just the beginning of what could be a frighteningly long fire season in Colorado.
New city of Boulder, NOAA study ties climate science to drought, water shortages
By David O. Williams |
09.22.11 | 9:06 am
Colorado’s future looks extremely hot and dry if current climate trends continue, and the city of Boulder is being proactive in planning for more drought conditions, less water and a relatively crispy climate outlook all along the state’s Front Range in coming years.
Sawmills let off hook on federal bark-beetle contracts, but financial issues persist
By David O. Williams |
08.08.11 | 8:18 am
The announcement late last week that three Colorado sawmills are being let out of pre-recession timber contracts with the U.S. Forest Service was met with relief from U.S. Sen. Mark Udall and skepticism among some in the conservation community who say the move will only have short-term impacts.
Colorado facing trial by flood and by fire
By David O. Williams |
06.03.11 | 8:24 am
The combination of an enormous mountain snowpack that’s just starting to melt and suddenly hot, summer-like temperatures and high winds has first responders across Colorado nervously eyeing both swollen waterways and tinder-dry forests and grasslands.
Roadless rule campaign targets exemptions for logging, drilling, mining
By David O. Williams |
05.25.11 | 10:53 am
Wildfire season in Colorado’s super-saturated high country seems so far off, but the debate over thinning beetle-killed forests to reduce fire risk around mountain towns remains at the forefront of an ongoing campaign to further revise the Colorado Roadless Rule.
Biomass bill would battle beetle kill by creating new plan, working group
By David O. Williams |
05.11.11 | 8:23 am
A bill to create a working group of Colorado forest health, environment and energy experts to draft a biomass plan for coping with the beetle-kill epidemic passed on third reading in the state Senate Monday and passed on second reading in the House on Tuesday.
