When Silver- thorne resident Jacob Miller visited Mesa County earlier this month to ride the Lunch Loops trail system, he relied entirely on his legs and lungs to power a regular mountain bike.
But when asked if he thought electric-powered bikes, or e-bikes, should be allowed on trails like those at Lunch Loops, he said he saw no reason not to allow them.
âI mean, itâs all about impacts, right, and they donât have any more impact on the trail than a regular bicycle. Theyâre not noisy, I mean not impactful in any way, on the environment, on the ears,â he said.
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BLM Colorado names new district managers after district boundaries realignment
Northwest Colorado District to be led by Elijah Waters and Upper Colorado River District to be led by Greg Larson
LAKEWOOD, Colo. – District managers have been hired for the Upper Colorado River and Northwest districts after a successful realignment of BLM Colorado’s district and fire unit boundaries to improve safety and efficiency.
Elijah Waters has been selected as the new district manager for the Northwest Colorado District and Greg Larson named as the district manager for the new Upper Colorado River District. Both report for duty on January 17. Waters will be stationed in Craig and Larson will be stationed in Grand Junction.
Conservation groups and the Bureau of Land Management have reached a legal settlement preventing drilling on more than 45,000 acres of area oil and gas leases until the agency does additional environmental analysis in local resource management plans.
The action applies to acreage offered in sales of 53 leases in 2016-17 in Mesa and Garfield counties. Some of the acreage underlies Vega Reservoir, lies within a half-mile of the public school in De Beque and sits north of Highline Lake State Park.
The settlement arises from a 2018 lawsuit brought by the Wilderness Workshop, Center for Biological Diversity, Living Rivers & Colorado Riverkeeper and the Sierra Club. The suit challenged the BLMâs failure to undertake site-specific environmental review when it approved the leases, and its decision to rely instead on review done in preparing its resource management plans for its Grand Junction and Colorado River Valley field offices.