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Colorado’s Wild Horses: Too Many with Too Few Places to Go

Wild horses are considered an icon of the great American West. Yet, wild horses are joining the ranks of unwanted dogs and cats-are we...

BLM’s Oil Shale SEIS on Fast Forward

Local northwest Colorado town and county officials and the governor's office were "sworn to secrecy." The federal government report was still in its draft...

BLM Mainlining Oil Shale Development

No oil company has yet invented a commercially viable way to extract oil from oil shale. Not ExxonMobil, not Shell Frontier, not Chevron USA....

Canada in Gas Drilling Slump; U.S. (and Colorado) Far Behind?

If you traveled about 1,000 miles north across the Canadian border in the Province of Alberta, you would almost think you landed in Western...