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Uneasy on the Land: Colorado Forest Health in Danger as Climate Changes - by Jan Wondra


Posted by Jan Wondra | Jan 27, 2021
Even as winter snows cover the ground, the unease is growing across this state and the nation that the steady march of climate change is impacting our western forests in ways we cannot stop. Here in Colorado, our timberlands are beset by drought, being eaten alive by a variety of beetles, loved to death by human beings over-running public lands, with their  resiliency damaged by decades of fire suppression that has left the dead timber load at historically high levels.
The Colorado Forest Service estimates a backlog of $4.2 billion in forest-thinning, just to protect homes in the growing  urban-wildland interface areas. (see related ....

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32 Colorado Groups Support Biden's Expected Pledge to Halt New Fossil Fuel Leasing, Permitting on Public Lands


For Immediate Release,
January 26, 2021
Contact:
Kevin Cross, Colorado Coalition for a Livable Climate, (970) 484-3141, [email protected]
Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, (801) 300-2414, [email protected]
Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, Western Environmental Law Center, (575) 770-1295, [email protected]
Jeremy Nichols, WildEarth Guardians, (303) 437-7663, [email protected]
32 Colorado Groups Support Biden’s Expected Pledge to Halt New Fossil Fuel Leasing, Permitting on Public Lands
DENVER As President Biden prepares to announce a ban on new oil and gas leasing and permitting on public lands and oceans, 32 climate, conservation, religious and business groups in Colorado today announced support for the move in a letter to the president. ....

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Hundreds of Groups Support Halting Fossil Fuel Leasing, Permitting on U.S. Public Lands, Oceans


Oil Change International
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Seth Gladstone, Food & Water Watch, [email protected]
Aisha Dukule, Friends of the Earth US, [email protected]
Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, [email protected]
Millions of People, Hundreds of Groups Support Halting Fossil Fuel Leasing & Permitting on Public Lands, Oceans
WASHINGTON Environmental justice, Indigenous, climate and conservation groups from across the country announced today that they have delivered millions of petitions and public comments, and letters from hundreds of organizations, supporting a halt on new fossil fuel leasing and permitting on public lands and oceans.
Biden has promised to ‘ban’ new leasing and permitting activities. Calls to ban fracking on federal lands began in began in 2013 and expanded in 2015 to oppose all new fossil fuel leasing. Virtually every acre of federal lands leased for oil and gas by the Trump administration is under ....

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