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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by side pocket
on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 09:00 PM PST
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The Colorado State Open Thread is used to bring together people interested in our beautiful state, whether they’re interested in the people, politics, natural beauty, denizens, purple mountains majesty, fruited plains, history, future or any other part...
by ColoTim
on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 05:53 PM PST
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Tonight’s full moon is known as the Wolf Moon to some. Also the Center Moon, Frost Exploding Moon (that sounds likely in some parts of the country!), Spirit Moon, Severe Moon, or Canada Goose Moon.
by strawbale
on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
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OK. The Colorado State Open Thread usually tries to hit some topics that have been making the rounds of our square(ish) state. That, or we ignore the popular topics and I just go for something ...
by ColoTim
on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 06:00 PM PST
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Every week I think about what has captured my attention over the previous several days. Usually I bring you a cohesive, themed, carefully crafted (heh, right!) essay on a topic that I found of particular interest, be it Colorado politics, nature,...
by ColoTim
on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 06:01 PM PST
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The latest edition of an annual report was published earlier this month by the Forest Declaration Assessment, which tracks pledges of forest conservation made by countries and private companies. The researchers found that 16.3 million acres of forest...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Oct 29, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Forty-five years ago at the nascent Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado, where I worked on the non-technical side, part of our mission was to come up with ideas or scrutinize others’ ideas for making solar and wind a major factor in...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Shooting immigrants or homeless people is for some RWNJs, like shooting wolves, but not all pundits or GOP candidates are Joe Rogan or Todd Akin. Dems may be throwing money at GOP candidate primaries while crying wolf, thereby defining a brand of “wise...
by annieli
on Wed Jul 20, 2022 at 01:02 PM PDT
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Bad policy is bad policy regardless of skin color . �
The fact that during her Senate confirmation hearing �it was brought out, even hailed, that she was native American is a sign that this country ...
by nopermissionneeded1
on Tue May 03, 2022 at 04:26 AM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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The Colorado State Open Thread is designed to highlight items of interest to people who want a taste of the high country —�Colorado, IIRC, has the highest average elevation of any of the lower 48 ...
by ColoTim
on Mon May 02, 2022 at 06:00 PM PDT
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You may remember Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte as the bully who physically assaulted reporter Ben Jacobs the night before Gianforte won a 2017 special election in Montana. Gianforte was running to fill corrupt Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s vacated...
by Walter Einenkel
on Wed Mar 02, 2022 at 11:18 AM PST
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One more Trump environmental atrocity goes down! A federal court today restored Threatened status for gray wolves and ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to resume recovery efforts. This order applies to the midwest and western states except for...
by Besame
on Thu Feb 10, 2022 at 01:14 PM PST
with 142 Recommends
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(Earth Matters is a weekly series featuring climate and other environmental stories.) covering climate now Back in 2019, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, The Guardian, and WNYC established Covering Climate Now, a collaborative effort to...
by Meteor Blades
on Thu Oct 14, 2021 at 11:55 AM PDT
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Known from transmitter pings and a possible cameo appearance in a trail cam video, highly sought by paparazzi and repugnant ranchers throughout California, this handsome boy may also have set a record for the longest gray wolf journey in 100 years. Now...
by Besame
on Thu Oct 07, 2021 at 07:44 AM PDT
with 120 Recommends
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Killing things without bothering to obey the law appears to be a signature move for Republican Greg Gianforte. In 2017, the Missoulian reported that then-candidate Gianforte had confessed to killing a bull elk. He got off with a $70 fine and a warning...
by Mark Sumner
on Fri Mar 26, 2021 at 08:50 AM PDT
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In the choice between wolf predation and human predation wolf culling seems more about sport than the economic threat to herds. Subsidizing trapping and killing with wolf bounties doesn’t begin to address the real ecological harms from other...
by annieli
on Wed Mar 10, 2021 at 10:40 AM PST
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It took the Trump administration about a year to announce their plans to gut the Endangered Species Act. Trump’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) successfully “delisted” the gray wolf at the end of October, just one week before the...
by Walter Einenkel
on Wed Mar 03, 2021 at 11:01 AM PST
with 188 Recommends
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For over 150 years, the Dire Wolf, originally known as Canis dirus and now classed as Aenocyon dirus , was believed to be a specialized version of the ordinary North American Gray Wolf, Canis lupus ,
by Lenny Flank
on Tue Jan 26, 2021 at 12:25 PM PST
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Two quotes from recent science stories are emblematic of 2020.
“I would really like to be wrong, but I fear mink are just the tip of the iceberg of what could be coming. If the virus keeps ...
by Besame
on Sat Dec 26, 2020 at 08:56 PM PST
with 40 Recommends
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In yet another hateful display of politics overriding science, the Trump administration has followed through on its threat to yank gray wolves from Endangered Species Act protections. On Thursday, the U.S. Fish and...
by Besame
on Fri Oct 30, 2020 at 02:53 PM PDT
with 116 Recommends
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