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Jimbo Buickerood

Nov 23 2020
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Defending the HDs… Again

By Jimbo Buickerood | Lands Protection, Newsletter, Oil & Gas | One Comment

It’s really no surprise that Colorado’s highest peaks attract the greatest attention from human visitors, smart phone cameras, Wilderness designations, and more – they are awe-inspiring and photogenic. However, most of us have come to know that the “lower and…

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Jul 02 2020
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Proposed Purgatory Resort Expansion – At What Environmental Cost?

By Jimbo Buickerood | Lands Protection | No Comments
Purgatory has shown an interest in developing the Ice Creek lift pod (at the eastern extent of greater Hermosa Park) area for many years and sought to include it an...
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May 05 2020
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The HD’s – “Just” Quiet, Beauty and Wildlife Habitat

By Jimbo Buickerood | Lands Protection, Oil & Gas | 3 Comments
It wasn’t the several contiguous weeks of working from my home “office” that motivated me to journey to the HD Mountains (between Bayfield and Chimney Rock National Monument); rather it...
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May 28 2019
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Stop the Village at Wolf Creek

Challenging the Forest Service (again) over Village at Wolf Creek

By Jimbo Buickerood | Lands Protection, Species, Wolf Creek | 2 Comments

Clean off those ‘No Pillage’ bumperstickers*, because here we go again. If you’ve lived in the area for long, you know the Village has a decades-long history. The short story is that a billionaire from Texas has long wanted to…

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Jun 21 2018
3
Photo of post 416 fire burn area near Hermosa

416 Fire Blog: What We Know

By Jimbo Buickerood | Climate Change, Forest Health, Lands Protection | 21 Comments
Big Picture As we breathe a collective sigh of relief after the prolonged and mostly gentle rains that calmed the fire and cleansed the air over June 16-17, we can...
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Aug 07 2017
2

Demanding Quiet-Use Trails for Rico/West Dolores

By Jimbo Buickerood | Lands Protection | 2 Comments

Last opportunity to speak out for quiet-use trails in Rico/West Dolores! Striving for strong protections for the Rico/West Dolores area has been a priority of San Juan Citizens Alliance for nearly 10 years and we will continue our persistence. However,…

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Dec 05 2016
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Heli Skiing Picture

Submit Comments: Silverton Guide’s Heli-Skiing Expansion is a Bad Deal for the Public

By Jimbo Buickerood | Lands Protection | 5 Comments

Photo Credit: Amy Grogan The stewardship of our commonly owned lands is a balancing act tightly linked to the missions of the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as they allow and encourage multiple uses of our…

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Jun 26 2015
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Report From Our Wolf Creek Trip To DC

By Jimbo Buickerood | Lands Protection, Species | 5 Comments

Last Friday night I camped on our national forest lands to the east and just below Wolf Creek Pass. Before snuggling into my sleeping bag, I bid a goodnight to the couple dozen elk grazing amongst the ponds and wetland…

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Apr 30 2015
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King Coal II Mine Part 3: History, expansion, permits, and oversight

By Jimbo Buickerood | Coal, Lands Protection | No Comments

This post is the third in a four-part series on the King Coal Mine in Hesperus written by guest contributor Lauren Pope. Read Part I, and Part 2: The Impacts. Ridiculous Revival At a time when world changing technological advances – hybrid cars,…

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Mar 17 2015
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King Coal II Mine Part 2: The Impacts

By Jimbo Buickerood | Coal, Lands Protection | No Comments

This post is the second in a four-part series on the King Coal Mine in Hesperus written by guest contributor Lauren Pope. For Part I, click here.    Disruption Grupo Cemento de Chihahua’s (GCC) proposed expansion of the King Coal…

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Feb 27 2015
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What To Look For In Friday’s BLM Tres Rios Field Office Announcement

By Jimbo Buickerood | Lands Protection, Oil & Gas, Rivers, Species | No Comments

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Tres Rios Field Office (TRFO) manages over 503,000 acres of public lands in southwest Colorado. Their management includes oversight of federal minerals exploration and development on more than 804,000 acres of private, state, and…

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Feb 19 2015
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King Coal II Mine Part 1

By Jimbo Buickerood | Coal, Lands Protection | No Comments

This is the first in a series of 4 blogs on the King Coal II Mine by guest contributor, Lauren Pope. A New Era for King Coal About three hundred feet underneath the piñon-topped mesa west of Durango in the Hay…

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Dec 12 2014
2

Hermosa Creek Bill will become law!

By Jimbo Buickerood | Lands Protection | One Comment

Today the Hermosa Creek Watershed Protection Act leaped across the proverbial last stream crossing on the journey to President Obama’s desk for his signature as the Senate passed the Defense Authorization Act, to which the Hermosa bill was attached, by…

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Nov 20 2014
1

Forest Service paves the way for Pillage at Wolf Creek

By Jimbo Buickerood | Lands Protection, Species | 5 Comments

Today’s decision by Rio Grande National Forest Supervisor Dan Dallas to approve a land exchange on top of Wolf Creek Pass requested by billionaire Red McCombs is both a disappointing and absurd decision to “green light” a development that would…

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Nov 13 2014
3

Hermosa bill takes a big leap toward becoming law

By Jimbo Buickerood | Lands Protection, Rivers | No Comments

Yes!!!   A long step was made today down the trail towards enhanced protections for the Hermosa Creek watershed with the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources unanimously voting to move forward the Hermosa Creek Watershed Protection Act. The…

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Sep 10 2014
1

Beetle Kill

By Jimbo Buickerood | Forest Health | No Comments

Here’s a pic from our archive of the type of beetle kill that is advancing throughout the region.

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