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www.theboulderstand.org The Boulder Stand publishes a growing mix of news, commentary and multimedia related to the environment.

Lead Editor: Leia Larsen
Multimedia editor: Christi Turner
Events and social media manager: Brittany McNamara
Editor: Dan Greenwood
Rhizome blog manager: Charles Trowbridge
Faculty adviser: Professor Tom Yulsman

06/14/2015

Awesome idea for a trip to Denver!

1 On the bridge at Larimer Street above Cherry Creek, Auraria City and Denver City residents became unified at a moonlight ceremony in 1860. And look! A B-cycle station. How convenient.

04/11/2014

Latest from the High Country. Desert maelstrom in Nevada. Rhetoric and emotionalism abound for the Last Man Standing. The truth is much more interesting.

Rancher vs BLM: a 20-year standoff ends with tense roundup. After running a tab of court injunctions, complaints and nearly $1 million in fines for grazing on the federally-owned Bunkerville Allotment in the southern tip of Nevada, a roundup of 900 cattle has begun. http://hcne.ws/PY8gjp

03/06/2014

Do you know where your w**d comes from? Can you be certain it wasn't grown in one of the hundreds of deforested, polluted "trespass grows" in the California wilderness?

Scattered throughout California’s public forests, authorities found 315,000 feet of plastic hose, 19,000 pounds of fertilizer and 180,000 pounds of trash on more than 300 illegal ma*****na plantations in 2012 alone.

02/15/2014

Happy Birthday, Boldt Decision! Charles Wilkinson puts U.S. v. Washington in the same class as Brown v. Board of Education, although it gets a whole lot less recognition. The legacy lives on.
Former Boulder Stand-er Christi Turner's latest post from High Country News.

The 1974 Boldt ruling, which made Natives co-managers in Pacific Northwest fisheries, then and now. It's still vastly influential, 40 years later. Indian law cases on everything from child custody to natural resource management takes a cue from the Boldt: http://hcne.ws/NLuAfn

01/09/2014

Excited for my first cover story in Boulder Weekly!
Wildfire, black carbon and the melting Greenland ice sheet...

“I was under a lot of pressure, because I had to prove that the project was not just a publicity stunt,” says Jason Box, climatologist and founder of the Dark Snow Project, designed to measure the impact of black carbon on the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

12/23/2013

Climate change is shaving days off of ski season.

http://www.theboulderstand.org/2013/12/23/climate-change-casualty-what-the-ski-industry-stands-to-lose/

By Kendall Brunette Some people call them podunk. Some call them money pits in a one-horse town. Whatever you call them, small, rural ski resorts across the country are struggling. Stuart Thompson has worked in the ski business since the 1960s. He’s held every job from ski patrol to avalanche con...

12/21/2013

How can a game help Boulder visualize its sustainable and alternative energy goals? Contributing writer Marisa McNatt shares a story from her travels to Copenhagen as a Climate Media Fellow to help explain.

Editor's Note: Marisa McNatt researched information for this story while traveling in Copenhagen, Denmark as part of the Heinrich Böll Foundation's Climate Media Fellowship program. What if there were a way for Boulder to visualize what would happen if the city were to take more aggressive action fo...

12/19/2013

So-called "ag gag" laws interfere with press freedoms, and put a damper on public health, animal welfare and environmental standards.

In Utah, the first state to try and prosecute a person under its ag gag law, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and PETA are taking the law to court for violating the First Amendment.

Read the op-ed here.

In 2012 Utah became one of eight states to pass so-called “ag gag” legislation, criminalizing undercover investigations at factory farms, but it is the first state where this law is being challenged in the courts. In July the Animal Legal Defense Fund, with advocacy group People for the Ethical Trea...

11/24/2013

Gloria Dickie, contributing reporter for the Stand, reflects on her experience reporting on the ivory crush in Commerce City last week - a potential breakthrough in the fight to end the illegal global trade in elephant tusks.

Last week I had the privilege of covering the United States ivory crush in Commerce City, Colo. for the Center for Environmental Journalism and OnEarth. The U.S. has been stockpiling confiscated ivory — from tusks to idols to bangles and bracelets — for over 20 years. Until now, the bulk of this ivo...

11/22/2013

Check out these awesome photos from the recent ivory crush at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, from Gloria Dickie, contributing writer at the Boulder Stand.

You can also link to the video that Gloria, Caitlin Rockett and Michael Kodas produced for OnEarth online magazine!

Awesome work!!

On November 14, 2013, the Boulder Stand's contributing co-editor Caitlin Rockett and contributing writer Gloria Dickie reported from the ivory crush at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, CO. The crush represented a prominent move by the U.S. government to send a strong sign...

10/10/2013

April showers bring May flowers, and September flooding may bring a wildfire-free autumn 2013.
Read about it here!

One year ago today, a wildfire ignited near the Fern Lake trail head in Rocky Mountain National Park when careless hikers failed to extinguish their illegal campfire. Although October generally falls outside of the “fire season” in Colorado, 2012 had already been a record year for drought and wildfi...

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