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Oct 27 2016

An SJCA Field Tour: Seeing Oil and Gas Up Close

By sjca Oil & Gas

It's easy to overlook what's happening in oil and gas fields. Most of us don't live at ground zero and the pollution is often invisible to the human eye. So, last weekend SJCA bussed folks from Durango, CO 45-miles south to Bloomfield, NM. We examined…

Oct 25 2016

Oil and gas is devastating our health and public lands.

By sjca Lands Protection, Oil & Gas

Area threatened by existing oil and gas development (yellow) on top of public lands (blue) in Northwest New Mexico. See oilandgasthreatmap.com for interactive map. You can’t drive through Northwest New Mexico and Southwest Colorado and miss our region’s oil…

Oct 20 2016

Ecoflight aerial photo over Mesa Verde and Montezuma County

In this dark political season, reasons for hope

By sjca Durango Herald Column, Lands Protection

Photo Credit: Ecoflight In the past week, I have had the opportunity to speak with some truly inspiring people, and get this: a few were politicians. I know, sounds improbable, right? This election season, the words “politician” and “inspiring” seem…

Sep 30 2016

Pillage at Wolf Creek – Fall 2016 Update

By sjca Lands Protection, Wolf Creek

Are they still trying to build that Village at Wolf Creek? Yes. And we’re still fighting it. In fact, we just filed an opening brief in the U.S District Court of Colorado as a part of our most recent lawsuit to…

An SJCA Field Tour: Seeing Oil and Gas Up Close

Oil and gas is devastating our health and public lands.

In this dark political season, reasons for hope

Pillage at Wolf Creek – Fall 2016 Update

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