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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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Luke Guilford | August 12, 2024
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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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Tyler Hatch | July 14, 2023
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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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Luke Guilford | March 20, 2023
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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 | February 1, 2023
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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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Julia Schneemann | September 8, 2022
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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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Hike, Ski, Kayak, and More in the Name of Science

Science

Scientists and dirtbags unite! While this may seem to be an unlikely duo, Adventure Scientists founder, Gregg Treinish believes otherwise.  For the past nine years, Treinish has been enlisting the help of ski bums, river rats, and dirtbags of all creeds to go adventure in the name of science. Related: Where Did the Term “Dirtbag” Come From? In 2011, Treinish […]

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Spencer Cox | July 10, 2020
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World’s Fifth Largest Tree in the Sierra Nevada, CA Protected

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Connor Phillips | February 14, 2020
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NZSki to Donate 250K to Help Save New Zealand’s Endangered Kea Bird

kea, New Zealand

  This Conservation Week, NZSki kicks off a new five-year commitment to spend more than a quarter of a million dollars helping protect birds native to the alpine areas it works across, spearheaded by $50,000 worth of funds and donation support in partnership with the Kea Conservation Trust (KCT). NZSki currently operates environmental programmes at The Remarkables and Coronet Peak ski […]

Kiwi Brains | September 17, 2018
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Land Swap in the Central Wasatch, UT: Conservation, Expansion, and Grizzly Gulch

Wasatch, Little Cottonwood

The Central Wasatch National Conservation and Recreation Area Act is up for discussion in Central Wasatch Commission meetings.  After being introduced in 2016, the bill was never enacted and has been debated for the past two years.  While the conservation act encourages protection of pristine land in higher elevations in the canyons, there are underlying suspicions about the future of the Cottonwoods. Central Wasatch National […]

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Katy Shipley | July 13, 2018
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European Ski Resorts Take Up Snow Farming for Next Season

Snow Farmers

With the increasing pressure on resorts to open early and with good conditions, snow farming has been recognized as one of the most useful ways to preserve snow.  Resorts use tarpaulin to cover their snow farms or sawdust to cover mounds of snow.  Both methods have proven successful for multiple resorts and are an important part to their success. After […]

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Katy Shipley | May 21, 2018
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$10 Million Dollar Deal Preserves Meadows North Of Truckee

In a victory for environmentalists, the Carpenter valley, a 1317 acre plot of land that sits one ridge over from the Tahoe Donner ski resort will be set aside for preservation. The Northern Sierra Partnership, a group based out of Palo Alto and funded mainly by Silicon Valley donors, stepped in as the land was about to hit the market. […]

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Jake Rubnitz | July 14, 2017
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Brain Post: Tiger Population Increases For The First Time In A Century

According to BBC News, the estimated number of wild tigers worldwide has risen for the first time in over a century. 3,890 tigers have been counted in the latest global census, which is up from the 2010 census that recorded just 3,200 tigers in the wild. This increase is great nonetheless, but it is sad to see that the population […]

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Chris Wallner | April 16, 2016
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