A $700-per-night stargazing resort is coming to San Luis Valley
Is there enough space – and demand – to support it and similar ventures?
DATE: Apr 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Tracy Ross
Position: The Colorado Sun
Colorado wildlife officials are visiting wolf-impacted communities after rocky start to reintroduction
State leaders admonished Colorado Parks and Wildlife over poor transparency when wolves were released in December. Can the agency rebuild trust?
DATE: Mar 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News
In Silverton, the tangled debate over how – and whether – to protect wetlands in town goes on and on
The Silverton board of trustees has been grappling with how to handle its wetlands amid a desperate need for housing since 2022. After pausing construction while they figure it out, they’re at it again
DATE: Mar 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News
Colorado cuts April hunting season, electronic lures after 198 mountain lions were killed in a month
Of those lions killed, nearly 44% were female – posing a risk to cubs born to breeding-age lions in that population.
DATE: Jan 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News
CPW says it will not kill wolves after attacks on North Park rancher’s cattle
In the latest chapter of Don Gittleson’s fight to protect his livestock from wolves, Colorado Parks and Wildlife says he should continue using mitigation tools the rancher claims haven’t worked
DATE: Dec 29, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Colorado ranchers: Murky rules about killing wolves sets them up for big livestock losses
Ranchers want wildlife officials to define ‘chronic depredation’ and deal with two problem wolves in North Park
DATE: Dec 22, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News
How are wildlife officials preparing Coloradans for wolf reintroduction? With a brochure
Colorado Parks and Wildlife says it will begin the process of bringing gray wolves from Oregon to Colorado on Friday. The brochure will include information on what to do if you encounter a wolf in the wild
DATE: Dec 3, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Human-moose conflicts are on the rise in Colorado. Who is to blame — humans or moose?
Following four incidents where people were injured by moose in recent months, should wildlife managers take a closer look at population numbers?
DATE: Oct 8, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News
The Partners in the Outdoors conference ended in disaster last year. Now CPW must put the pieces back together
The agency is calling on wildlife, recreation and conservation communities to rebuild its broken model
DATE: Aug 28, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Biden wants to make conservation equal to ranching and mining. The GOP won’t have it
Republican-led House committee voted to withdraw a BLM rule it links to ‘Biden’s preservationist agenda’
DATE: Jun 22, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Wildlife officials issue warning following fawn kidnapping, moose’s fatal jump from parking garage
Reminder comes during an uptick of apparently inadvertent abuses
DATE: Jun 22, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Mountain lion claws man hot-tubbing in Colorado high country
The attack happened Saturday night near Mount Princeton Hot Springs Resort
DATE: Mar 21, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News
