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A logger, forester and former mayor joined forces to help Butte Falls manage its forests to protect the town and build an economy supported by tourism rather than logging.
Inside Climate news
For many people who know Kyle Hedquist, it’s no surprise that he’s doing big things in politics.
The Oregonian
For 20 years, Richard Lechleitner had a grueling task at Mt Rainier national park: digging human waste out of backcountry toilets and carrying it down the mountains.
The Guardian
The Black Hammer group had $100,000 and a real estate contract for 40 acres where they planned a settlement free of cops, COVID and white people
The Colorado Sun
Kandra Miller has struggled with addiction to alcohol, heroin, and meth for seven years. In that time, she lost everything, rebuilt her life during two successful years of recovery, and lost it all again when she relapsed last year and became houseless, she says.
The Christian Science Monitor
Even in the evening Tuesday, people took their smoke breaks in the shade. By 6 p.m. outside the Recovery Outreach Community Center in Salem, Ore., the temperatures were still hovering near 100 degrees on the second day of what was expected to be an unusually long heat wave in the Pacific Northwest.
The Washington Post
Save Lives Oregon created a pipeline for naloxone, an overdose reversing medication, but its funding is in jeopardy.
The Lund Report
Elijah McClain in an intensive care unit shortly before his family disconnected him from life support. McClain encountered Aurora police one night last month, was subdued and drugged during the encounter. He suffered cardiac arrest during the encounter and never regained consciousness, his family said.
The Sentinel Colorado
With tractors being used in vineyards, berry fields and hobby farms, the EV industry hopes to prove out the promise of electrifying the $38 billion US agricultural vehicle industry.
Inside Climate News
The rise of renewable energy promises economic gains for rural America. But that doesn’t mean everyone welcomes the shift. We visit one Michigan county where active opposition has been growing.
The Christian Science Monitor
Changing attitudes is critical to solving complex problems, like homelessness. As hard as that can be, Alamosa, Colorado, is seeing some progress – among officials, at least.
The Christian Science Monitor
On April 22 — Earth Day — a van carrying Aurora Congressman Jason Crow turned onto a dusty road in east Aurora. The van parked on a small overpass above a marsh. Crow hopped out and, hands on hips, squinted at the bushes and reeds covering the creek bed.
The Sentinel Colorado
When one species is threatened, should conservation plans include killing invasive rivals? That’s the choice facing wildlife officials and animal advocates regarding the spotted owl – and such ethical quandaries may expand.
The Christian Science Monitor
A study of fires in the San Juan National Forest showed that people don’t start the majority of southwest Colorado’s wildfires, but those they do ignite are near roads and hiking trails
The Colorado Sun
For Colorado survivors of mass shootings, Monday’s attack – and the immediate choosing of sides in the gun control debate – were sadly familiar. Healing is an individual journey, they say. For some, activism helps. For others, it adds trauma.
The Christian Science Monitor
Experts and community leaders have said that low-income Aurorans, including those in north Aurora’s lower-income, diverse neighborhoods, have proved particularly hard to vaccinate for a slew of reasons : little access to healthcare, language barriers, distrust and more.
The Sentinel Colorado
The members of the Colorado chapter of Direct Action Everywhere — known locally, nationally and internationally as DxE — were conducting an illegal “investigation” of Colorado Egg, an industrial-scale farm in Weld County that supplies Costco stores on the Front Range and beyond with cage-free eggs.
The Westword