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 groups are considerably less than thrilled. Among those NPR-piece participants painting Salazar as a crony of "very traditional, old-time, Western extraction industries" was Kieran Suckling of Tucson's C
There is almost nothing I can say about this that wouldn't get me picketed. Direct from the PETA website at www.peta.org:
People don't seem to like fish. They're slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads--which is weird, to say the least. Plus, the small ones nibble at your feet when you're swimming, and the big ones--well, the big ones will bite your face off if Jaws is anything to go by.
Of course, if you look at it another way, what all this re
The Waunita Lek near Gunnison, mating grounds for a large group of Gunnison sage grouse, is open for public viewings, and bird watchers will have good news to share with the rare species, which puts on an unusual and exotic springtime dance.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that it will reconsider an April 2006 decision not to list the Gunnison sage grouse as an endangered species, according to a notice filed in March with the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
The grous
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 Economic Development Corporation, aims to inform the populace about how much the state is receiving from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and how it'll be spent. At this point, there's not
A Flickr photo"If I ever see that Jeffrey Bodnar, I'm gonna rip him a new one."
Hey, Jeffrey Bodnar and Veronica Anderson-Bodnar. If you're guilty of what a federal grand jury in Denver indicted you for earlier this week, you won't win a popularity contest among nature and animal lovers. The pair have been charged with fifteen counts, including "conspiracy, wildlife trafficking and firearms violations stemming from the illegal trapping, killing and selling of bobcats and their pelts." Tur
