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Specializing
in:
Environmental
Outreach
Community
Engagement
Campaign
Development
Media
& Grassroots
Strategies
Other
services:
Research
& Policy
Analysis
Events
& Facilitation
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Founder Pete
Kolbenschlag has over 20 years experience crafting, running, and
winning
successful issue campaigns, including media relations, campaign
development,
grassroots response, event planning, and strategic research.
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Mountain West Strategies, Ltd.
PO Box 1864
Paonia, CO 81428
970-261-0678
MountainWestStrategies@tds.net
©
2008 Mountain West Strategies, Ltd.
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Mountain West Strategies
News & Updates
News, articles, and updates from
our projects, partners, and friends.
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News from
the Mountain West
Soil tower, spills
loom over water
Overflow from drilling has left behind a
"waterfall" of frozen gunk and a huge erosion deposit.
Denver Post March
26, 2008
Garden
Gulch, a remote ravine north
of the town of Parachute, has been the site of four spills and leaks
from oil
and gas drilling in the past five months.
New
information pegs it as also
being the site of a huge soil-erosion deposit that fell during the
building of
an oil-field pipeline above.
As
was the case in two of the
spills, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission wasn't
notified, as
required by law, about the erosion problem.
Commission
inspectors discovered the
huge tower of soil-blackened mud and ice on their own. The unidentified
pipeline builder has been issued a violation notice.
The
landowner, Chevron Corp., was
also in the dark. A company spokeswoman said Chevron didn't know about
the deposit
until
Article at
www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_8696987
A decade
later,
roadless plans going in circles
Aspen
Daily News , February 17, 2008
A decade after
the federal government proposed a ban on new roads on
millions of acres of public land across the country, the future of
those lands
— including those in the White River National Forest — remain in
question.
Environmentalists worry rules proposed by the state to safeguard those
landscapes could backfire and give them second-class protection.
The federal
regulations that ban new roads are under fire in the courts. The
state’s alternative is in the works, and although it was submitted by
the former
governor, Gov. Bill Ritter’s administration is largely standing behind
it. And
with the clock ticking on the Bush administration, a new president
could enter
the Oval Office with very different ideas about protecting roadless
lands.
“The original
roadless rule is the one that offers the appropriate
protection for Colorado’s roadless areas,” said Pete Kolbenschlag,
coordinator
for Colorado’s Forest Legacy, a conservation group. “We’re concerned
because
now only Colorado and Idaho are going to have standards that are weaker
than
the standards on all other national forests across the country. Even
though the
overwhelming sentiment in public comments was for strong roadless
protection,
if the rulemaking goes through we’ll end up with weaker protection.”
Article
at www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/decade-later-roadles
Animated cartoon on the 1872 Mining Law
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Updates
from Partners & Friends
DeltaCountyRecycling.org
launches website,
publishes recycling guide
An
effort
launched in in rural Delta County, Colorado last year with help from
Mountain West Strategies working with Chaco Sandals USA, took two huge
steps this year with publication of a county recycling guide and the
launch of a new website at www.deltacountyrecycling.org.
EcoFlight
tours Vermillion Basin, CO & Adobe Town, WY
The
organization that brings you video from the sky heads to Vermillion
Basin and Adobe Town, two proposed wilderness areas at risk from oil
and gas drilling.
 YouTube Video
Roadless
is More: Taking Care of Our National Forests
The Outdoor Alliance represents human-powered outdoor recreation groups
including hikers, mountain bikers, hikers, paddlers, and backcountry
skiers, snow-shoer's and other public land users. Their recent
video makes the case why protection of our national forest's remaining
Roadless Areas is so important to everyone who loves the great
outdoors.
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