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The Beaver Effect

By Rivers
Close your eyes and imagine you are sitting next to a stream. What do you see? What do you hear? You may be imagining noises associated with a babbling brook with water quickly moving down-gradient. Perhaps you see a bright…
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Wolf Creek Pass Update

By Newsletter, Wildlife
Wolf Creek Pass, straddling the Continental Divide between Pagosa and Del Norte along the Rio Grande and San Juan National Forest boundary, is a haven for wildlife – including critical habitat for the endangered Canada lynx and an important migration…
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The Proof is in the Animas

By Climate Change, Newsletter, Rivers
Rivers and streams in the West are facing a lot of challenges these days, especially in the face of an undeniably warming world. As climate change progresses, our waterways are increasingly stressed by worsening droughts, wildfire, and diminished flows.  The…
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SJCA’s April Recap

By Newsletter, Of Interest
Spring is upon us and in Southwest Colorado that means forthcoming elections for the La Plata Electric Association (LPEA) Board of Directors. Each year, the member-owners of LPEA  (anyone with an electric meter account) choose the directors to manage the electric cooperative.…
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Take Action: Support the Colorado Wilderness Act & BLM Wildlands

By Lands Protection, Take Action
The Colorado Wilderness Act has been reintroduced, but in order to pass it needs the support of Colorado's Senators. Take action today and ask Colorado Senators Michael Bennet & John Hickenlooper to support the Colorado Wilderness Act!JTNDZGl2JTIwaWQlM0QlMjJhQW90ZGRTcnVuJTIyJTNFJTBBJTIwJTIwJTIwJTIwJTNDc2NyaXB0JTIwdHlwZSUzRCUyMnRleHQlMkZqYXZhc2NyaXB0JTIyJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZkZWZhdWx0LnNhbHNhbGFicy5vcmclMkZhcGklMkZ3aWRnZXQlMkZ0ZW1wbGF0ZSUyRjMyZmRjZmU0LTNjM2QtNGQ4My05ZTUxLThiNDlmZWNiNWM0NiUyRiUzRnRJZCUzRGFBb3RkZFNydW4lMjIlMjAlM0UlM0MlMkZzY3JpcHQlM0UlMEElM0MlMkZkaXYlM0U=
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Take Action: Support Strong Protections for Colorado Rivers

By Rivers, Take Action
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Fall/Winter 2020 Newsletter

By Newsletter
Our Fall/Winter 2020 Newsletter has gone out to doorsteps and PO Boxes across the country! You can also check it out here by clicking the photo below. This newsletter has updates on energy transition, the HD Mountains, pending wilderness designations,…
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Take Action: Hold Tri-State to Higher Carbon Reduction Standards

By Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Take Action
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What’s Your Plan?

By Lands Protection, Of Interest, Take Action
SJCA believes that responsible management of our public lands protects our communities’ heritage, supports healthy wildlife and their habitat, sustains a strong and self-reliant economy, and preserves our quality of life for generations to come. To help our members and…
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Waiting for a Verdict

By LPEA Spotlight, Renewable Energy
This blog series covers the monthly La Plata Electric Association (LPEA) Board of Directors meetings. We’re tracking the board for transparency and accountability, as well as to stay current on their renewable energy initiatives. Find past and future spotlights here. Get…
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Another FERC Curveball

By LPEA Spotlight, Renewable Energy
This blog series covers the monthly La Plata Electric Association (LPEA) Board of Directors meetings. We’re tracking the board for transparency and accountability, as well as to stay current on their renewable energy initiatives. Find past and future spotlights here. Get…
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Colorado PUC Sides With LPEA

By LPEA Spotlight
This blog series covers the monthly La Plata Electric Association (LPEA) Board of Directors meetings. We’re tracking the board for transparency and accountability, as well as to stay current on their renewable energy initiatives. Find past and future spotlights here. Get…
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Tri-State Files First Phase of Resource Plan

By LPEA Spotlight
This blog series covers the monthly La Plata Electric Association (LPEA) Board of Directors meetings. We’re tracking the board for transparency and accountability, as well as to stay current on their renewable energy initiatives. Find past and future spotlights here. Get…
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We Stand Against Racism

By In the News
Statement from San Juan Citizens Alliance staff:We are living through a time of unprecedented upheaval, one that leaves us contemplating our role at San Juan Citizens Alliance. First it was our nation’s stumbling response to the coronavirus pandemic and the…
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Race to the PUC

By LPEA Spotlight, Renewable Energy
This blog series covers the monthly La Plata Electric Association (LPEA) Board of Directors meetings. We’re tracking the board for transparency and accountability, as well as to stay current on their renewable energy initiatives. Find past and future spotlights here. Get…
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Opportunities for Change

By LPEA Spotlight, Renewable Energy
This blog series covers the monthly La Plata Electric Association (LPEA) Board of Directors meetings. We’re tracking the board for transparency and accountability, as well as to stay current on their renewable energy initiatives. Find past and future spotlights here. Get…
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EPA To Rollback Critical Methane Regulations

By Oil & Gas
Breaking: The Environmental Protection Agency, under the Trump administration, just announced that they intend to “sharply curtail” methane regulations. This rollback will keep vital federal oversight away from the vast majority of the nation’s hundreds of thousands of oil and…
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New Beginnings at LPEA

By LPEA Spotlight, Renewable Energy
This blog series covers the monthly La Plata Electric Association (LPEA) Board of Directors meetings. We’re tracking the board for transparency and accountability, as well as to stay current on their renewable energy initiatives. Find past and future spotlights here. Get…
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Are we really Better Together?

By LPEA Spotlight, Renewable Energy
This blog series covers the monthly La Plata Electric Association (LPEA) Board of Directors meetings. We’re tracking the board for transparency and accountability, as well as to stay current on their renewable energy initiatives. Find past and future spotlights here. Get…
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May 2018 LPEA Spotlight

A new year at LPEA

By Coal, LPEA Spotlight, Renewable Energy
This blog series covers the monthly La Plata Electric Association (LPEA)* Board of Directors meetings. We’re tracking the board for transparency and accountability, as well as to stay current on their renewable energy initiatives. Find past and future spotlights here. Get…
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BLM 99 Percent Comments

Public Defends BLM Methane Rule, Again

By Oil & Gas
The road for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) methane waste rule has been long and winding, and unfortunately we’re not at the end. Last week, however, we threw a big wrench in Secretary Zinke’s never-ending attempts to rollback this…
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Renewable Randy Banner

Renewable Randy and the Tri-State Façade

By LPEA Spotlight
This blog series covers the monthly La Plata Electric Association (LPEA)* Board of Directors meetings. We’re tracking the board for transparency and accountability, as well as to stay current on their renewable energy initiatives. Find past and future spotlights here. Get…
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LPEA February 2018 Spotlight

The questions between the statements

By LPEA Spotlight
This blog series covers the monthly La Plata Electric Association (LPEA)* Board of Directors meetings. We’re tracking the board for transparency and accountability, as well as to stay current on their renewable energy initiatives. Find past and future spotlights here. Get…
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BLM Ignored Public

BLM, can you hear us?

By Oil & Gas
Last week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proved their determination to elevate the interests of the oil and gas industry above those of the people they’re charged to protect – twice. But we can’t give up now. GREATER CHACO…
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BLM Delay Action Banner

BLM Methane Rule is Under Attack

By Oil & Gas
This administration is committed to rolling back environmental and public health protections for the benefit of corporate profits. And they have perseverence. First they tried to erase the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) methane waste rule entirely using the Congressional…
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Superfund Update: July 2017

By Gold King Mine, Rivers
What's going on? Earlier in July, the Superfund team completed surface water sampling from the Upper Animas River, Cement Creek, and Mineral Creek as part of their ongoing study of our river’s headwaters. The samples will be analyzed for metal…
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San Juan Generating Station

What happens if San Juan Generating Station Closes?

By Coal
The San Juan Generating Station and San Juan Mine coal complex (SJGS/SJM) is New Mexico’s single largest polluter. While the facilities provide electricity to 500,000 customers, and employ several hundred of our community members, they do so at a great…
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EPA Methane Rule is Under Attack

By Oil & Gas

Yesterday, alongside our members and tribal partners, we took to D.C. to stand up for clean air. Since entering office, the Trump Administration has attacked both Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) methane regulations. We saved…

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Superfund Update: June 2017

By Gold King Mine, Rivers
What’s going on? This summer is the first full work season since the declaration of the Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund site last September. So what’s going on amidst those mountainous peaks to the north? Summer 2017 Projects Compiling and…
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Big Win for San Juan National Forest

BIG WIN for San Juan National Forest!

By Oil & Gas
In these trying times for environmental advocates, good news deserves emphatic celebration. And boy, do we have good news! As we previously told you, the San Juan National Forest (SJNF) has been facing the threat of a new era of…
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BLM is lying to us. #DontFrackChaco

By Oil & Gas

This is our last chance to submit scoping comments on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) plan for oil and gas leasing in Greater Chaco. The BLM is telling us they don’t have a choice, that they have to lease: This is…

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BLM ignored us. What now? #ProtectChaco

By Oil & Gas
Last Tuesday, indigenous leaders, affected residents, and State Representative Derrik Lente met with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) State Director Amy Lueders to request she cancel the January 2017 Chaco oil and gas lease sale. Over 150 people rallied…
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#DontFrackChaco Rally on 1/17!

By Oil & Gas

On Tuesday, four Navajo Nation chapter presidents, impacted community members, and one NM State Representative met with State Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Amy Lueders. The group requested a cancellation of the January 2017 oil and gas lease sale…

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Pinon Pipeline Stopped

The Piñon Pipeline is dead! How did it happen?

By Oil & Gas
Chaco just got a huge break. Friday afternoon, Saddle Butte San Juan Midstream LLC ("Saddle Butte”) withdrew their proposal for the Piñon Gathering System Project, better know as the Piñon Pipeline, in northwest New Mexico. The 150-mile pipeline would have carried 50,000 barrels per…
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Canyon of the Ancients National Monument waste pit protest

Let them come.

By Of Interest
Friends, At the close of the constitutional convention in 1787, Ben Franklin strode out the doors of Independence Hall to be greeted by a question from an onlooker in the crowd. “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a…
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Chaco Scoping

We need your voice to protect Greater Chaco.

By Oil & Gas
What changed? Right now, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Farmington Field Office (FFO) is amending its 2003 Resource Management Plan (RMP) to include new industrial fracking in Greater Chaco. The process recently reopened for official public comment until December…
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A hunter says #NoPillage

By Lands Protection

“It is one of the best elk hunting experiences … people wait upwards of ten years to actually get the tag … and it would be forever changed to have a population center in literally a world class elk unit.”…

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Wolf Creek Files 4

WCF Exhibit 4: Redaction

By Wolf Creek
This is part of our Wolf Creek Files blog series. Each post explains, in detail, the context behind an email or string of emails: who is writing, what is being discussed, and why it concerns us. Click here to see…
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A friend of wolf creek says #NoPillage

By Lands Protection

“It makes me feel like bad decisions keep following bad decisions.” For three decades we have fought to protect Wolf Creek Pass from Texas-billionaire Red McCombs’ “Village at Wolf Creek” development. Wolf Creek Pass is a remote landscape in southwest…

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Our attorney says #NoPillage

By Lands Protection

“There’s a sense of… disgust and outrage with our federal agency employees who know better.” For three decades we have fought to protect Wolf Creek Pass from Texas-billionaire Red McCombs’ “Village at Wolf Creek” development. Wolf Creek Pass is a…

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BLM Methane Rulemaking Meeting

By Oil & Gas

Hey all, there is a really important meeting on Tuesday, February 16th in Farmington that we want you to know about. It’s from 1-4 pm, which we know is hard for a lot of people. If you can make it,…

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Wolf Creek Files

Wolf Creek Files

By Wolf Creek
Our attorney’s dug through the “Wolf Creek Files” and what they found confirmed our worst fears: The National Forest Service was in collusion with developer Red “B.J.” McCombs, again. We're sharing the evidence with you. Ever had the desire to read through…
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A water user says #NoPillage

By Lands Protection

“Where is that balance between economic development and sustainability, and preservation of the ecosystem?” For three decades we have fought to protect Wolf Creek Pass from Texas-billionaire Red McCombs’ “Village at Wolf Creek” development. Wolf Creek Pass is a remote…

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An environmentalist says #NoPillage

By Lands Protection

“I think that the only hope we have to preserve this area is by the gathering of community to fight with political power.” For three decades we have fought to protect Wolf Creek Pass from Texas-billionaire Red McCombs’ “Village at…

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Wolf Creek Files

RELEASE: Wolf Creek Files

By Lands Protection, Wolf Creek
We’re about to finally discover what the Forest Service has been hiding for over a year and a half. ------------ Ever had the desire to read through and analyze 69,701 pages of correspondences and reports? No? That's okay, we're doing…
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Dolores River

Let the Dolores process unfold

By Lands Protection, Rivers
Photo: Mark Pearson San Juan Citizens Alliance has long prioritized protection for the Lower Dolores River. We worked with the Dolores Water Conservancy District to start the Dolores River Dialogue in 2004. In 2008, we became a stakeholder in the…
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King Coal II Mine Part 1

By Coal, Lands Protection
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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Hermosa Creek Bill will become law!

By Lands Protection
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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Don’t Be A Leader – Be A First Follower!

By Of Interest
Ever think we place too much emphasis on leaders?  We do, too. This video shows that it’s the first follower, not the leader, that creates a movement. What lesson can we learn as community activists? https://youtu.be/V74AxCqOTvg?list=LLlTTFRO9bPoJJ1WIEcFlDGg
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Focusing Is About Saying No

By Of Interest
So many small organizations struggle to stay focused – especially small organizations with tight budgets that need focus more than anything else.  Great short clip of Steve Jobs describing focus, or strategy, as what you say “no” to, not “yes.”…
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear

Ambrose Redmoon