Conservation

The Race is on For Wyoming to Sell Land to Grand Teton National Park Before it’s Sold to Developers

The Kelly Parcel. Photo Credit: Grand Teton National Park Foundation

The clock is ticking for the Kelly Parcel, a 640-acre plot adjacent to the Grand Teton National Park’s southern boundary. Wyoming state land commissioners are pressured to sell land, which resulted in the Kelly Parcel being put up for public auction last year. The pressure comes from a constitutional agreement that many Western states made that requires the states to raise […]
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Alta Ski Area, UT, Planting Over 12,000 Native Plants This Summer

Wildflowers at Alta

Alta Ski Area, Utah, has always been a big advocate environmental conservation, but this summer, Alta Environmental Center is taking it to the next level by planting more than 12,000 native plants in- and around the ski area. Since 2008, Alta Environmental Center has been advising on and performing conservation efforts in Little Cottonwood Canyon, in an effort to preserve […]
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$2.4 Million Federal Grant for Cloud Seeding in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Cloud seeding operation

Last week, The Southern Nevada Water Authority voted to accept a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to fund cloud seeding in Western states whose rivers feed the Upper Colorado River Basin. The weather modification method utilizes planes and cannons to launch silver iodide crystals into clouds. This process attracts moisture to the particles that fall as snow […]
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Could Reviving the Woolly Mammoth Protect the Arctic Permafrost?

De-extinction Colossal Bioscience

Colossal Biosciences plans to heal the Earth in a nonconventional way. Their mission is to utilize bioscience to jumpstart nature’s ancestral heartbeat and create a healthier planet and human populace. Colossal is working on several projects, but one stands out the most: the Woolly Mammoth’s de-extinction. Related: Worms Frozen in Permafrost 42,000-Years Ago when Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Planet have been […]
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Luke Guilford |
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Vail Corp. Files Court Complaint Against Town of Vail, CO, as Battle Over Workforce Housing Project Drags On

On Tuesday, August 30, Vail Corp. filed a complaint at the Eagle County District Court against the town of Vail for improper use of the emergency ordinance process. The town of Vail passed an emergency ordinance, Ordinance 16, on August 2, to stop Vail Corp. from doing any work on its 23.2-acre parcel of land in East Vail. Vail Corp. […]
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Tahoe Conservationists Win Lawsuit Against Squaw Valley, CA Resort Development

Conservationists with the Sierra Watch, a conservation advocacy group, won a legal battle yesterday against Alterra Mountain Company, which had plans to extensively develop the area surrounding Squaw Valley, California. Three judges ruled that Alterra will not be able to continue its expansion plans for Squaw Valley because of the impacts the project would have on the area’s fire danger, […]
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Tasmanian Devils Return to Australian Wild After 3,000 years

3,000 years later, Tasmanian devils are back in the wild on Australia’s mainland after going extinct there. Tasmanian Devils have continued to live on the island of Tasmania right up to the modern day. “The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It was once native to mainland Australia and was only found in the wild on the island state of Tasmania. It has […]
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