The road to greenhouse gas cuts: Are Colorado drivers ready?
Power plants and oil drillers are cutting back emissions, now this is the year your car gets involved.
Michael Booth / Colorado Sun
A traveler tries out the new electric charging station at the Colorado Welcome Center in Dinosaur in August 2020. (Courtesy Photo / Moffat County Tourism Association)
When Colorado’s greenhouse gas battle comes to her Wheat Ridge driveway, Jan Rose will be ready.
Rose believes heart and soul that if the state wants to hit benchmarks of 90% cuts to polluting emissions by 2050, Coloradans will have to drive less, and if they do drive, use a clean electric car. Recent successful trims to power plant and petroleum drilling emissions will not be enough on their own.
Courtesy Photo / Moffat County Tourism Association
Following a lot of work within the county to upgrade access to the Yampa River and really push the river as part of the tourism industry locally, the Moffat County Tourism Association – in partnership with the Colorado Rural Academy – now has a new tool for river users.
MCTA rolled out a new river access map, showing access points for the Yampa River throughout Moffat County. The map follows represents the Yampa River from Steamboat Springs to Deerlodge Park in Dinosaur National Monument.
The Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Friends of the Yampa, the Craig Chamber of Commerce, the City of Craig and Colorado State Parks helped MCTA and CRA create more than 15,000 river access maps that are now available at the Chamber of Commerce.