by Mr. Leadville | Sep 7, 2020 | Leadville News
Colorado coronavirus cases have tapered off again after a worrying leap in July, so much so that the state’s top epidemiologist on Wednesday expressed a rare bit of cheer amid what has otherwise been six months of cautious watchfulness. “We’re in a good place...
by Mr. Leadville | Sep 7, 2020 | Leadville News
Late last week, a Federal District Court in Colorado ruled that thousands of acres of oil and gas leases in the Thompson Divide properly expired nearly a decade ago. This is just one of many leasing related battles that Wilderness Workshop (WW) and the Western...
by Mr. Leadville | Sep 7, 2020 | Leadville News
BRECKENRIDGE — After Vail Resorts on Thursday announced its plan for a reservation system this winter at its North American ski areas, members of Colorado’s backcountry winter sports community raised concerns about how the new program will affect crowds on public...
by Mr. Leadville | Sep 6, 2020 | Leadville News
When the statue of a Union soldier that stood on the west side of the state Capitol was toppled and defaced by protesters in June, it did more than reignite a long-running conversation about public monuments and their meaning. It also started a chain reaction that...
by Mr. Leadville | Sep 6, 2020 | Leadville News
The Environmental Protection Agency is creating a new office in Lakewood that will focus on cleaning up abandoned hardrock mining sites west of the Mississippi River, including the Bonita Peak Mining District where the Gold King Mine disaster originated in 2015. The...
by Mr. Leadville | Sep 6, 2020 | Leadville News
141 Shares The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted just about every facet of our lives. Chief among them: our ability to travel, especially internationally. Europe, in particular, does not want American visitors right now (and, honestly, we can’t blame them). This...