2006 News

2006 Rockies Project News Coverage

• E! The Environmental Magazine - "Points of Light: The World Wakes Up to Climate Change", 7/1/06
• USA Today - "Making sense of global warming: Downhill slide ahead?", 6/5/06
• RedLodgeClearinghouse.org - "Conservation Easements: Key Concepts", May 2006
• Laramie (WY) Boomerang - "County Ranks Sixth in Nurturing Youth", 5/19/06
• Denver Post - "Perspective: Grading the Rockies", 5/12/06
• Nevada Appeal - "Storey district attorney aiming for reelection", 5/3/06
• Reno Gazette-Journal "Storey County rates as kid-friendly", 5/1/06
• Tooele Transcript Bulletin (Utah) - "Study: few opportunities for Tooele County youth", 4/28/06
• Skipressworld - "Snow News from Around the World: Global Warming Alert", 4/27/06
• Colorado Springs Independent - "Elephant hunting in the West", 4/27/06
• The Vail Trail - "Those meddling kids", 4/26/06
• Sun Valley Online - "41% reduction in Baldy snowpack projected, high rivers and more", 4/25/06
• Summit Daily News (Breckenridge, Frisco, Keystone, Copper Mtn., Colo.) - "Restoring respect for bugs?", 4/24/06 (also ran on www.americanlands.org)
• New West Network - New Approaches to Managing Resources in the Rockies, 4/24/06
• Summit Daily News (Breckenridge, Frisco, Keystone, Copper Mtn., Colo.) - "'Environmental justice' an emerging topic in Rockies", 4/24/06 (Also ran in the Vail Daily)
• AdventureJournalist.com - "Earth Day 2006: Humans in Nature", 4/22/06
• Aspen Times - "Report warns of disaster in Colorado ski country", 4/22/06
• New West Network - "Conservation Easement Movement Showing Strong Signs in the Rockies", 4/21/06
• New West Network and Headwaters News - "Housing in the Rockies: Is Colorado’s Present the Ghost of Utah’s Future?", 4/21/06  
• New West Network - "Report on Ranching Finds Challenge and Hope in the West", 4/20/06
• New West Network - "One Scientist Forecasts an El Niño Respite from the Southwest’s Drought -- For Now", 4/20/06
• Colorado Springs Independent - "Political science: Global-warming panel explores the role of scientists in politics", 4/20/06
• AdventureJournalist.com - "Comment on coyote photograph in report", 4/19/06
• New West Network - "Study Suggests Substantial Snowpack Loss at West's Ski Resorts by 2085", 4/19/06
• New West Network - "Spring Snowpack Projected to Drop by 50% at Colorado Ski Areas by 2085", 4/19/06
• New West Network - "Spring Snowpack Projected to Drop by over 30% at Montana Ski Resorts by 2085", 4/19/06
• Headwaters News - "A Region that Makes Sense", 4/6/06
• New West Network - "Conference Offers a Rocky-Mountain Wide Look at Region", 4/6/06
• Tooele (Utah) Transcript Bulletin - "Toxic study puts county close to top in Rockies", 4/7/06
• Summit Daily News (Breckenridge, Frisco, Keystone, Copper Mtn., Colo.) - "'State of the Rockies' report to be released", 4/8/06
• New West Network - "State of the Rockies: 2006 Report Card", 4/10/06
• Rocky Mountain News - "Warming may be death of state’s winter sports", 4/11/06 
• The Denver Post - "6 Colo. counties among top that threaten Rockies’ nature", 4/11/06
• The Gazette - "Study: Ski resorts, water supply at risk", 4/11/06
• The Gazette - "Rockies population rises 3 times more than nation’s", 4/11/06
• KPCW-FM Public Radio, Park City, Utah - "State of the Rockies: Interview with Bryan Hurlbutt", 4/11/06
• Headwatersnews.org - "Reporting on the Rockies, Editor’s Notes"
• Summit Daily News (Breckenridge, Frisco, Keystone, Copper Mtn., Colo.) - "Report: Habitat fragmentation a major issue facing Colorado", 4/11/06
• New West Network - "Grading ‘The State of the Rockies’", 4/11/06
• Summit Daily News (Breckenridge, Frisco, Keystone, Copper Mtn., Colo.) - "The roots of noxious weeds", 4/11/06, also ran in the Vail Daily
• Summit Daily News (Breckenridge, Frisco, Keystone, Copper Mtn., Colo.) - "Weed invasions often caused by human impacts", 4/11/06
• Western Skies - "State of the Rockies: Fighting Habitat Fragmentation", 4/11/06
• New West Network - "Report: Population Threat Looms on Land Conservation and Biodiversity", 4/11/06
• HighPlainsMessenger.com - "Are We Doomed Yet?", 4/11/06
• Summit Daily News, (Breckenridge, Frisco, Keystone, Copper Mtn., Colo.), and Vail Daily - "‘Balance of nature’ as a myth", 4/11/06
• Limenow.com - "Ski while you can!", 4/11/06
• The Gazette - "Reports: Valuable rural lands vanishing", 4/12/06
• New West Network - "Report: The New Ranch May Be Key to the Success of the New West", 4/12/06
• HeadwatersNews.org - "Report: Growth biggest threat to conservation and biodiversity", 4/12/06
• Aspen Public Radio - "State of the Rockies, Part 1", 4/13/06 
• Greenwire - "Land Letter Short Takes: Rockies' ski resorts will suffer due to climate change – report", 4/13/06
• New West Network - "Montana Counties Do Well for Habitat, Worse for Toxicity", 4/13/06,
• Independent - "Public Eye: A time to get mad", 4/13/06
• The Denver Channel ABC 7 News - "Is Colorado’s ski industry doomed to global warming? Study Says Disaster Possible by 2050", 4/13/06, (also appeared on www.stopglobalwarming.org)
• New West Network - "Report: Defining Environmental Justice, Finding a Common Voice", 4/13/06
• HeadwatersNews.org - "State of the Rockies 2006: Panel: Key to Ranching’s Future is Employing New Techniques", 4/13/06
• Denver Post - "Warming could melt ski-area take", 4/14/06
• The Gazette - "An ‘A’ for Effort", 4/14/06
• Aspen Public Radio - "State of the Rockies, Part 2", 4/14/06
• Summit Daily News (Breckenridge, Frisco, Keystone, Copper Mtn., Colo.) - "Warming temps threaten water supplies and ecosystems", 4/14/06, (also ran in the Lake City, Colo. News)
• New West Network - "Report: Unsettling Climate Changes Hover Over Ski Industry", 4/14/06
• Aspen Daily News - "Report claims Aspen’s future is melting away", 4/14/06
• The Gazette - "Into the skin of historical figures", 4/14/06
• HeadwatersNews.org - "State of the Rockies 2006: Environmental Justice Too Often Overlooked in the Region", 4/14/06
• HeadwatersNews.org - "State of the Rockies 2006: Climate change could doom Colorado ski areas by 2050", 4/14/06
• New West Network - "The Heat Is On In Colorado Country", 4/14/06
• Axcess News - "Global Warming Poses Major Threat to Ski Industry By 2050, Study Shows", 4/15/06
• Axcess News - "Rocky Mountain Region's Non-Whites and Poor Live Closest to Toxic Places", 4/15/06
• YubaNet - "Rocky Mountain Region’s Non-whites and Poor Live Closest to Toxic Places: Annual State of the Rockies Report Points out Cities’ Environmental Justice Issues", 4/15/06, (also ran on dwej.com (Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice)
• Summit Daily News (Breckenridge, Frisco, Keystone, Copper Mtn., Colo.) - "Western states seek national political clout", 4/16/06, (also ran in the Vail Daily, 4/17)
• The Gazette - "Letters: STATE OF THE ROCKIES -- Annual conference an educational experience", 4/16/06
• New West Network - "Rockies Growing More Than Three Times Faster Than U.S., Report Shows", 4/16/06
• Bozeman Daily Chronicle - "Dire predictions can’t quell local resorts’ optimism", 4/16/06
• New West Network - "Report Shows Rockies States are Neglected in National Politics", 4/17/06
• New West Network - "Spring Snowpack Projected to Drop by 50% at Colorado Ski Areas by 2085", 4/19/06
• Vail Daily - "Climate change: How bad could it be?", 4/19/06
• Vail Daily - "Report depicts grim future for ski industry", 4/19/06
• The Gazette - "Briefly: County’s nurturing grade bumped up", 4/19/06
• New West Network - "Spring Snowpack Projected to Drop by 82% at Telluride by 2085", 4/19/06
• New West Network - "Spring Snowpack Projected to Drop by 43% at Aspen by 2085", 4/19/06
• New West Network - "Spring Snowpack Projected to Drop by 89% at Taos by 2085", 4/19/06
• New West Network - "Spring Snowpack Projected to Drop by 41% at Sun Valley by 2085", 4/19/06
• New West Network - "Spring Snowpack Projected to Drop by over 60% at Utah Ski Resorts by 2085", 4/19/06