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	<title>Forest Policy Research &#187; Colorado</title>
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		<title>Colorado: EarthJustice on ski resort NOT expanding in roadless area</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/16/colorado-earthjustice-on-ski-resort-not-expanding-in-roadless-area/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/12/16/colorado-earthjustice-on-ski-resort-not-expanding-in-roadless-area/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pristine roadless area saved]]></category>

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But is a Colorado senator trying to breathe new life into a bad idea? On November 5, 2009, something happened in Colorado that hasn&#8217;t happened in a long, long time:&#160;the U.S. Forest Service rejected a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: Removing Beetle killed trees won&#8217;t stop beetles</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/03/colorado-removing-beetle-killed-trees-wont-stop-beetle-killed-trees/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/03/colorado-removing-beetle-killed-trees-wont-stop-beetle-killed-trees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Infestation fanaticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The idea of rushing into some sort of removal activity prior to this season’s bug flight doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me,” said Kelly Rogers, who is based in the state agency’s Grand Junction office. “It is just not a place that I would be rushing into to cut a bunch of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: Politicians look to get federal land for &#8220;affordable 	housing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/10/colorado-politicians-look-to-get-federal-land-for-affordable-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/10/colorado-politicians-look-to-get-federal-land-for-affordable-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal selling of public land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poorly planned development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It could open the floodgates to losing more and more of our public
lands,&#8221; said Leigh Girvin, director of the Continental Divide Land
Trust. After local planners described more than a dozen plots of land
that might be suitable for attainable work-force housing, County
Commissioner Thomas Davidson told them it&#8217;s not enough. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think
we&#8217;ve identified enough land. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: Don&#8217;t cut dead trees, forest is healthiest that way!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/01/colorado-dont-cut-dead-trees-forest-is-healthiest-that-way/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/02/01/colorado-dont-cut-dead-trees-forest-is-healthiest-that-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credible science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infestation fanaticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When a forest recovers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m not spending a dime to cut down a bunch of dead trees,&#8221; one gruff
fellow said.  &#8220;But what if a fire gets started and burns your house down?&#8221; a second man asked. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got insurance for!&#8221; the first man replied
in hollow triumph. &#8220;But,&#8221; a third man objected, &#8220;your fire can burn my
house, too!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: Forest Service thinks logging in drought stressed Aspen 	forests improves vigor?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/25/colorado-forest-service-thinks-logging-in-drought-stressed-aspen-forests-improves-vigor/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/25/colorado-forest-service-thinks-logging-in-drought-stressed-aspen-forests-improves-vigor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infestation fanaticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Preliminary results from an aerial survey of the Rio Grande National
Forest show a familiar pest has expanded its reach and a new malady is
striking the forest&#8217;s aspen stands. The infestation of spruce beetles
expanded by 42,500 acres, but for the first time foresters are seeing
significant signs of sudden aspen decline on the 1.8 million-acre
forest. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: 600 acres per month of Beetle killed trees logged on Routt 	NF</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/23/colorado-600-acres-per-month-of-beetle-killed-trees-logged-on-routt-nf/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/23/colorado-600-acres-per-month-of-beetle-killed-trees-logged-on-routt-nf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infestation fanaticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Beetle-killed trees are being removed at a rate of about 600 acres a
month on the Routt National Forest, according to Jamie Kingsbury,
Hahn&#8217;s Peak/Bear Ears District Ranger. &#8220;The removal of dead trees,
along with planting nearly three-quarters of a million seedlings in
the past decade, is helping to usher in the new forest,&#8221; Kingsbury
said. The Routt National Forest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: Forest Service slows logging by being too streamlined for 	Court Approval</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/22/colorado-forest-service-slows-logging-by-being-too-streamlined-for-court-approval-2/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/22/colorado-forest-service-slows-logging-by-being-too-streamlined-for-court-approval-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roadless Areas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SUMMIT COUNTY — The U.S. Forest Service must redo environmental
studies for logging on about 800 acres in the &#8220;red zone&#8221; around
Wildernest because of legal wranglings over the disputed roadless rule
The projects were approved under a streamlined approval process that
was subsequently voided by a federal judge in California after a
lawsuit by environmental groups. &#8220;We still have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: This year&#8217;s data on Beetle kill has been released</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/17/colorado-this-years-data-on-beetle-kill-has-been-released/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/17/colorado-this-years-data-on-beetle-kill-has-been-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infestation fanaticism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pine beetles killing Colorado&#8217;s mature pine trees expanded their
infestation by 400,000 acres last year, according to federal and state
forestry officials who say tree mortality in the Larimer County area
may not be as bad as initially feared. The infestation is largely
concentrated in the state&#8217;s northern mountains, and has been moving
north and east from the Granby and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: Loggers don&#8217;t like it when biologists prove unthinned forest are better</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/11/colorado-loggers-like-biologists-prove-unthinned-forest-better/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/11/colorado-loggers-like-biologists-prove-unthinned-forest-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I find it remarkable that loggers &#38; mainstream environmentalists too
often argue that thinning / mechanical intervention in the growth of a
forest is the only thing that will save / allow a forest to grow. It&#8217;s
too often assumed that leaving the forest alone is the same as
destroying it. But didn&#8217;t forest grow on it&#8217;s own for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: Trees, Water People (TWP) protects the world&#8217;s trees</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/08/colorado-trees-water-people-twp-protects-the-worlds-trees/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/08/colorado-trees-water-people-twp-protects-the-worlds-trees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fighting poverty & Deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solutions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A group called Trees, Water People (TWP) are like many NGO&#8217;s who work
with impoverished peoples cooking and firewood needs by helping with
more fuel efficient stoves, as well as setting up tree nurseries. It&#8217;s
a much more supportive form of forests protection in terms of get
local buy in to the protection efforts. All to often big name
environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: A small portion of roadless area oil &amp; gas leases pulled back</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/30/colorado-a-small-portion-of-roadless-area-oil-gas-leases-pulled-back/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/30/colorado-a-small-portion-of-roadless-area-oil-gas-leases-pulled-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil & Gas Leases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roadless Areas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Federal officials say they will correct an oversight that resulted in
13,000 acres of roadless forest land in western Colorado being put up
for bid to oil and gas developers. Regional Forest Service officials
will ask that the proposed energy leases be withdrawn from a Feb. 12
auction. Forest Service spokesman Dave Steinke said Monday that a
formal request will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: US Forest Service&#8217;s Lynx plan challenged by enviros in court</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/25/colorado-us-forest-services-lynx-plan-challenged-by-enviros-in-court/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/25/colorado-us-forest-services-lynx-plan-challenged-by-enviros-in-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USFS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Durango-based Colorado Wild, the Center for Native Ecosystems,
Defenders of Wildlife and WildEarth Guardians filed the appeal with
the Forest Service Monday. The final plan, released in November,
weakens standards and guidelines for logging, snow grooming for
recreation, road upgrades and gas and oil development, the groups
said. &#8220;If the amendment&#8217;s weaker standards and guidelines are applied
to areas in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: Stahl on how new administration will affect Summit county USFS land</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/14/coloradostahl-on-how-new-administration-will-affect-summit-county-usfs-land/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/14/coloradostahl-on-how-new-administration-will-affect-summit-county-usfs-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama is on record as supporting domestic
energy development; that could leave some of western Colorado's wild
areas in the crosshairs. "He's made some statements about aggressively
pursuing natural gas development," said local wilderness advocate
Currie Craven. "It raises the question of how much understanding there
is of western land-use issues in the Obama camp. How much of a change
(from Bush) is there really going to be, with regard to extracting
fossil fuels?"]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado:USFS clearcut solution to beetle kill in Lower Blue destroys ancient soils</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/13/coloradousfs-clearcut-solution-to-beetle-kill-in-lower-blue-destroys-ancient-soils/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2008/12/13/coloradousfs-clearcut-solution-to-beetle-kill-in-lower-blue-destroys-ancient-soils/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There's no waste in
nature," Smith said. "You have to harvest the interest, not the
capital." Incoming County Commissioner and Lower Blue resident Karn
Stiegelmeier also called for strong oversight to protect natural
resources.]]></description>
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