Scott CondonThe Aspen Times
Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series looking at issues raised in a new study of the Roaring Fork watershed. Today’s article looks at the effects water diversion has on the valley’s namesake river. Saturday’s article will look at environmental degradation of the river and the lands adjacent to it. Read the full story
by Ginger D. Richardson - Dec. 5, 2008The Arizona Republic
The Bureau of Land Management today is expected to eliminate a regulation that gave two congressional committees the ability to block future uranium mining and exploration on public lands near the Grand Canyon.... [U.S. Rep Tucson]... Grijalva who is rumored to be a leading candidate to head the Interior Department in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet, blasted the Bush administration's decision to abolish the regulation. http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2008/12/05/20081205canyon1205.html
