Local farmers Invited to grow food on public lands
Category: Land Use
Posted inLand Use
Remote camera photos show what’s out there in the dark
Ken Krehbiel is a photographer who does most of his work in bed – asleep. His cameras are often miles away, unnoticed, except by a curious bear or a passing mountain lion. His subjects are usually unaware that their pictures are being taken.
Posted inLand Use
Decision point for the Hunter-Smuggler plan
This far-ranging plan was initiated five years ago to enhance forest health and wildlife habitat, protect public safety, improve trails and roads, and provide outdoor education. Exactly how that translates to action is the hard call WRNF Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams is weighing.
Posted inLand Use
Wilderness Workshop helping to shape Hunter-Smuggler plan
The advocacy group is urging the Forest Service to close the illegal mountain bike trail called the Balcony Trail, revise its logging plans, reduce the impacts of helicopter use, and re-think road and trail construction.
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Aspen trails board seeks safer cycling on Castle Creek Bridge
Board members think it’s only a matter of time before a cyclist or pedestrian ends up getting hit by a passing car on the bridge.
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RFTA picking up pace with new express bus service
The $46 million system is also known as VelociRFTA, to emphasize the speed with which riders will move up and down the valley.
Posted inLand Use, Pitkin County
Airport working on design guidelines for new facilities
Airport Director Jim Elwood said the design guidelines should help alleviate anxiety in the community that the airport might “get carried away” with a new terminal and do something “out of scale” with the community.
Posted inLand Use, Wealth and Property
LLC that bought Windstar has tie to Houston billionaire
A public document on file in Pitkin County shows that the right-hand man in Aspen of Houston billionaire Jeff Hildebrand has been granted authority to make decisions regarding the Windstar property.
Posted inEnvironment, Land Use
State on top of Parachute hydrocarbon plume incident, says COGCC director
The director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission sought to reassure Pitkin County commissioners on Wednesday that appropriate actions were being taken to contain, and find the source of, a mysterious plume of hydrocarbons threatening Parachute Creek.
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Eagle County commissioners reject Missouri Heights guest ranch proposal
After it became clear Tuesday evening that all three Eagle County commissioners were prepared to vote no on a proposed zoning change for the Dragonfly Ranch on lower Missouri Heights, the applicants withdrew their proposal at the invitation of Commissioner and board chair Jon Stavney.