Mountain West Strategies

Localvores, Pick Up Your Forks! Oil and Water Don’t Mix By @ColoFarmFood, crossposted at ColoradoPols.com Attention has been focused on Denver, as Governor Hickenlooper’s Oil and Gas Task Force finishes its work, mostly avoiding the contentious issues that surround the industrial realities of oil and gas—noise, pollution, traffic, and impacts to land and existing uses—which led to its formation more »

By Courtney Mullin Rocky Mountain Sandhill Cranes have been traveling almost the same migratory route for thousands of years along the Rocky Mountain Range. Over 20,000 of them winter in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, and make their way north as the weather warms. One of their first stops is the Monte more »

@PKolbenschlag The wires are abuzz about the latest example of fossil fuel influence attempting to bend science, another Climate Change Denialist hero has been shown as seriously besotted by sooty cash, but failed to note the connection.  His ‘science’ was—in fact—“deliverables” to dirty energy powerhouses, from utilities, coal, oil and gas, the Kochs. Meanwhile in western Colorado, more »

Large-scale industrial activity a tough fit for Colorado’s farm-to-table capital | GJSentinel.com …The majority of the drilling jobs are temporary. Companies like SG acknowledge that they bring in outside contractors for most of the positions, which leads to no long-term benefit to our local economy. We all want the North Fork to thrive. To many more »

Sage Grouse Sonnet, Because its All About Love – ColoradoPols.com   Musings for St. Valentines Day From @PiceanceDog   The grouse courts on its sagebrush steppe At winters end in familiar lek. To strut and puff as the hens inspect, A dance, like a sonnet, in a metered step To find love with the right more »

Gas-drilling foes turn out in force, against tall odds | GJSentinel.com. PAONIA — North Fork Valley residents are rallying again to try and stop oil and gas development involving tens of thousands of acres, but in this case face a daunting challenge because the land already is leased. Some 200 people turned out at a more »

A View of the Valley: the North Fork Alternative Plan I hate to fly. It terrifies me. Always has. I haven’t been on a commercial airliner since September 8, 2001, when I ended up stuck in DC over 9/11. My friend Jeff finally persuaded me to go for a ride with him in his little more »