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Bureau of Land Management

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Christo's "Over the River" project approved by Fremont County Commission

    Whether you think Christo is a genius or a hack, he is inarguably a patient man. After first conceiving of "Over the River" in 1992, today he became one step closer to realizing his vision. This morning, Fremont County Commission voted unanimously to approve his temporary use permit. This permit was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Christo's "Over the River:" DU students and staff on their opposition and lawsuit to stop project

    The grassroots group Rags Over the Arkansas River is trying to block Christo's "Over the River" art project along the Arkansas River. Students from the Environmental Law Clinic at DU's Sturm College of Law were at the Denver federal courthouse at 9 a.m. today, filing suit against the U.S. Bureau of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Christo's "Over the River" faces public hearings this week for final permits

    After nearly twenty years of planning, Christo and his "Over the River" project are two temporary-use permits away from full approval. The installation, which would suspend 5.9 miles of fabric over a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas River, was conceived in 1992, but only received the go-ahead last No ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Fifteen best Denver ART moments in 2011

    Bicycle vs. Homing Pigeon vs. Moped from Village Voice Media on Vimeo.We've been rolling off lists this week like there's no tomorrow, and maybe there isn't, considering that pesky 2012 Mayan prophecy and all that. Earlier this week, Jef Otte presented his 10 best moments in Denver arts list, riffin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Reader: Quit horsing around with wild mustangs

    ​The Bureau of Land Management's attempts to remove thousands of wild horses from public lands has generated outrage across the country, as well as Wild Horses & Renegades, a new film by Santa Fe-based filmmaker James Anaquad-Kleinert, which explores the government's unsuccessful efforts to pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Reader: Ecoterrorists will be all over "Over the River"

    ​It's not quite a wrap, but when the Bureau of Land Management announced that it had approved Christo's "Over the River," the art installation proposed for a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado cleared yet another hurdle.

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Christo's Over the River is over the hump

    Christo, Over The River, Project For The Arkansas River, State of Colorado Photo: Wolfgang Volz, © Christo 2008​ Word came down yesterday from the Bureau of Land Management in favor of large-scale installation artist Christo's Over the River project slated to cover areas over a 42-mile stretc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Old Cow Town Ranch going to auction -- don't tell William Koch

    ​Last year, billionaire William Koch bought Buckskin Joe for $3.1 million, and moved the buildings to his private ranch outside Gunnison. But now you've got another chance to buy an old-timey Colorado town... if Koch, who also dropped $2 million on a Billy the Kid tintype, isn't there with his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    Ken Salazar's move to restrict drilling rejected by federal judge

    Ken Salazar.​Since his appointment as Secretary of the Interior in 2009, Ken Salazar has been the point man for the Obama administration's efforts to put the brakes on the drill-baby-drill energy policy of the Bush years, often facing stiff opposition from congressional leaders and the oil and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Mount Evans Scenic Byway: If you stop to enjoy the view, you'll have to pay

    ​"The Clear Creek Ranger District invites you to drive the highest road in North America!" says the U.S. Forest Service web page on Mount Evans. The drive offers views of "the Continental Divide, mountain goat and bighorn sheep herds, wildflowers and Bristlecone Pine trees." But stopping to lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Ken Salazar pushes renewable energy "on steroids"

    Ken Salazar.​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced federal approval of four large renewable energy projects in the West today, touting the new jobs and clean power that those projects and others in the pipeline will bring -- and described his department's approach to renewables as so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    Oil-shale plans could be derailed by ruling on Graham's penstemon, an endangered plant

    Susan Meyer​William Blake saw heaven in a wildflower. The energy industry sees nothing but trouble. Last week, a federal judge in Denver ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision not to declare an obscure plant as endangered was "arbitrary and capricious" -- a ruling that could ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Fracking primer: State seeks to address uproar over drilling process

    ​Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" -- pumping massive amounts of water mixed with toxic chemicals into tight formations to extract oil and gas -- remains a sore subject among environmentalists, neighbors of drilling rigs and some lawmakers, even as energy industry boosters insist it's safe. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Ken Salazar to drill-baby-drill crowd: Stop whining and get cracking

    Ken Salazar.​A year after being chastised for being too hasty in opening up offshore oil leases for exploration, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was fielding questions from former colleagues in the Senate about why the administration isn't issuing more drilling permits to boost domestic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Christo's "Over the River" project: Will the Colorado Wildlife Commission sink it?

    ​The acclaimed artist Christo (rendered here by Kenny Be) has a talent for subduing vast landscapes, charming financial backers and reassuring locals about the economic and aesthetic value of his unique projects. But he hasn't managed to friend anybody over at the Colorado Wildlife Commission ... More >>

  • News

    January 6, 2011

    Ask a Mexican: What's with the trash dump in the Sonoran Desert?

    ​The acclaimed artist Christo (rendered here by Kenny Be) has a talent for subduing vast landscapes, charming financial backers and reassuring locals about the economic and aesthetic value of his unique projects. But he hasn't managed to friend anybody over at the Colorado Wildlife Commission ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Boulder Fourmile Canyon fire: Will frustrated public be excluded from press briefings?

    Joe Pelle.​Peter Richards has been attending Boulder County Justice Center press briefings about the Fourmile Canyon fire, and he says members of the public have been asking around 20 percent of the questions at such sessions. So he was bothered by the move of the briefings to the currently cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    John Salazar land swap deal drawing national attention -- and heat

    John Salazar​An unusual land swap deal on the Western Slope orchestrated by Representative John Salazar, one that would benefit his largest campaign contributor, is starting to draw scrutiny well beyond disgruntled hunters and activists in Gunnison County, who claim the public is getting the s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    John Salazar: Land swap aids big donor

    John Salazar.​While Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has been enduring a summer of media broiling over everything from the BP oil spill to federal wild-horse roundups, his brother John has been coolly and quietly toodling toward re-election and a fourth term in Congress. But now, the Oth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Ken Salazar: Did he blow the call on Utah energy leases?

    Mike McKee.​Utah County Commissioner Mike McKee wants Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to release an internal report that concludes there was nothing improper about dozens of oil and gas leases in eastern Utah. Salazar canceled those leases in the early weeks of the Obama administration.

  • News

    May 20, 2010

    Colorado's Michelle Malkin leads the Know Nothing Nation

    Mike McKee.​Utah County Commissioner Mike McKee wants Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to release an internal report that concludes there was nothing improper about dozens of oil and gas leases in eastern Utah. Salazar canceled those leases in the early weeks of the Obama administration.

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Ken Salazar's shakeup at Interior: Where will it all end?

    There's a new sheriff -- and a lot of new acronyms -- in town.​In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil slick disaster, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is barreling ahead in his efforts to reform the embattled Minerals Management Service, the once-obscure agency responsible for overseein ... More >>

  • News

    April 1, 2010

    A few of our favorite things

    We love the people who love Denver; here are few of their personal bests.

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    Protesters cheer stallion's escape from roundup

    The mustang dubbed "Freedom" prepares to jump the fence. Photo by Elyse Gardner. ​ Protests continue around the country over the Bureau of Land Management's ongoing roundup of 2,500 wild horses in Nevada, including a rally scheduled for January 7 in downtown Denver. Groups outraged by the roun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    Ken Salazar: No more horsing around

    Famous wild stallion Cloud, star of three documentaries--and until recently targeted in a BLM roundup.​In a teleconference with reporters today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar declared that his department's wild-horse management program "is simply not working" and proposed a new way of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    New website charts what parts of Colorado are being stimulated

    A photo from the StimulusColorado.org website. StimulusColorado.org, a new website co-sponsored by Associated General Contractors of Colorado, the Colorado Association of Mechanical and Plumbing Contractors, Colorado Contractors Association, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Metro Denver ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Forget Shane: Come back, Christo! Christo, come back!

    Wolfgang Volz, copyright Christo 2007 As noted in a previous blog, "Doing the Math on Christo's Arkansas River Wrap," Colorado art mavens and opinion leaders are just crrraaaazy about Over the River, the proposal by husband-and-wife artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to suspend six miles of silvery ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    "Sheriff" Salazar rounds up some artifact rustlers

    In his first few weeks as Secretary of the Interior, former Colorado Senator Ken Salazar was fond of sporting his cowboy hat and declaring that there's a new sheriff in town -- even though the work at hand didn't lend itself to quick draws, as explained in my feature "The Zen of Ken." But now t ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2009

    Ken Salazar wants windmills in the ocean, but first he'll have to save the Interior Department

    In his first few weeks as Secretary of the Interior, former Colorado Senator Ken Salazar was fond of sporting his cowboy hat and declaring that there's a new sheriff in town -- even though the work at hand didn't lend itself to quick draws, as explained in my feature "The Zen of Ken." But now t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Environmental group rips Obama's choice of Ken Salazar as Interior Secretary

    Local coverage of Barack Obama's selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial "Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation." But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental gro ... More >>

  • News

    May 22, 2008

    Going, Going, Gone

    Will the first new American bird discovered in a hundred years be the next to go extinct?

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2006

    Beneath the Rough Exterior, a Rotten Interior

    Will the first new American bird discovered in a hundred years be the next to go extinct?

  • News

    September 1, 2005

    What Lies Beneath

    The effort to reclaim a historic mining district has consumed years and millions of dollars. But will it hold water?

  • News

    June 2, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of June 2, 2005

  • News

    September 23, 2004

    Loved to Death

    Besieged by crowds and Front Range pollution, Colorado's premier national park is a vanishing wilderness.

  • News

    January 8, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of January 8, 2004

  • Sports & Recreation

    April 4, 2002

    Best Sports

    REI

  • News

    October 4, 2001

    Gas Pains

    Drilling for natural gas on the Western Slope has punched holes in some residents' dreams of solitude. Others see it as the way of the West.

  • News

    August 2, 2001

    Risk-Ski Business

    Can Aaron Brill's single lift save Silverton and earn salvation for the sport?

  • News

    December 7, 2000

    High Times

    A paper with a big voice hails from one of the state's tinier towns.

  • News

    October 7, 1999

    Digging In

    Gravel mining wasn't allowed near their homes in the 1980s. These Jeffco homeowners want to know what's different now.

  • Calendar

    July 22, 1999

    Run for the Gold

    Gravel mining wasn't allowed near their homes in the 1980s. These Jeffco homeowners want to know what's different now.

  • News

    June 17, 1999

    He Walks With the Animals

    Maybe Jasper Carlton is a radical -- or maybe he's ahead of his time.

  • News

    February 26, 1998

    Artsbeat

    Maybe Jasper Carlton is a radical -- or maybe he's ahead of his time.

  • News

    December 11, 1997

    The Bust Was a Bust

    Who got stung by National Geographic's on-camera sting of a fossil "poacher"?

  • News

    December 19, 1996

    Letters

    Who got stung by National Geographic's on-camera sting of a fossil "poacher"?

  • News

    November 8, 1995

    BURIED TREASURE

    THE HONEYMOON'S LONG OVER FOR EX-EPA CHIEF ANNE BURFORD AND HER LATE HUSBAND--BUT THE DIVORCE IS FOREVER.

  • News

    September 13, 1995

    TRANSCENDENTAL DESECRATION

    IN SEARCH OF SPIRITUAL VIBES, NEW-AGERS RUN ROUGHSHOD OVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK.

  • News

    July 5, 1995

    THE WHEEL THING

    IS NOTHING SACRED? AN UNPRECEDENTED GATHERING OF THE TRIBES IN BOULDER TRIES TO DECIDE.

  • News

    September 21, 1994

    DON'T START THE REVOLUTION WITHOUT ME

    IS NOTHING SACRED? AN UNPRECEDENTED GATHERING OF THE TRIBES IN BOULDER TRIES TO DECIDE.

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