Tag: Colorado Department Of Natural Resources
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Laura Clellan named sole finalist for Colorado Parks and Wildlife director
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The Department of Natural Resources announced Monday that Laura Clellan, who is currently serving as acting director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, is the only finalist for the job. Clellan has been acting director of CPW since Nov. 25, when she replaced Jeff Davis, who served as the agency’s director for just over two years.…
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Metro Moves: CU lands new treasurer and CIO
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Welcome to the Denver Gazette’s Metro Moves. You’ll get the latest metro Denver openings, closings, hiring and promotion news here. To submit your company’s news, drop an email to [email protected]. New CU treasurer The University of Colorado has a new treasurer and chief investment officer. Usha Sharma was selected for the role by the CU…
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Dangerous legacy: Tens of thousands of Coloradans live near one of the state’s many underground coal-mine fires
The veins of mining run deep in Superior, a Colorado community founded on coal and recently redefined by fire. For generations residents needed only to go a few miles west during winter to see plumes of steam and smoke rising from fissures in the Earth, from an underground coal mine fire that started before many…
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$88 million state wildland fire mitigation effort seeks local input
With a new $88 million effort to restore and protect communities and water systems from wildfires, Colorado’s top natural resources executive is asking locals to come forward and let the state know which forested areas need to be thinned to reduce fuels as soon as possible. “We are one lightning strike, one drought year away…
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State fraud hotline generates investigations that rarely see light of day
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado auditors have been investigating for more than two years whether fraud occurred at the Colorado’s Secretary of State’s Office when Wayne Williams headed it as an elected official. Williams, a Republican who lost his re-election bid for secretary of state in 2018 and is…
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Colorado sues Bureau of Land Management over resource management plan
The State of Colorado, through the Department of Natural Resources, filed a federal lawsuit Friday against the Bureau of Land Management’s resource management plan for the Uncompahgre Field Office. The lawsuit challenges the approval of the plan which dictates land use activities, including mineral extraction, on federal lands throughout five southwestern Colorado counties. “In Colorado,…
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The hot, toxic, uphill battle against Colorado’s underground fires
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In Craig Amichaux’s childhood memories, there’s a mystical land not far from his Glenwood Springs home, close but deep in the mountains. “A beautiful country,” he says. “Bears and elk. And the fascination of it is there’s thermal hot springs out there, a hippie dip.”…
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Initiative launched to address drowning deaths in Colorado dams
A new initiative was announced Wednesday to increase public safety around low head dams after an increase in dam-related deaths in recent years, the Colorado Department of Natural Resources said. In Colorado, 13 people have drowned in low head dams since 1986, including two since 2016 at the South Platte River dam. “These fatal accidents…