The West

Tim DeChristopher traded a protest sign for a bidding paddle and thwarted an auction of controversial natural gas leases. He’s become a conservation hero, but his action could put him behind bars for a decade.
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Seen from above, the mountains of central Colorado are a snow-covered mosaic of meadows, aspens and lodgepole pines. Some of those pines are green, their branches holding new-fallen snow. Others are red fading to brown – the telltale signs of trees killed by an epidemic of bark beetles that have wiped out millions of acres...
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ASPEN — Global warming is reshaping forests throughout Colorado and across the West, scientists and public-land managers agreed at a symposium Friday, leaving foresters at pains to deal with a landscape that could look very different in the future.
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A bipartisan team of legislators is putting forward a bill intended to make it easier for ski resorts to get permission for non-ski activities on Forest Service land. Touted as a job-boosting measure and a way to improve year-round economies at ski resorts, the legislation is aimed particularly at summertime activities.
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High flows from Glen Canyon, mimicking historic floods, could help rebuild an ecosystem harmed by the dam. But the results are fragile.
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When Aspen, Colo. resident John Bennett flew across Colorado after the devastating pine beetle infestation had taken effect, he was shocked by what he saw. “I had a very strong sense of flying over a cemetery. A vast graveyard,” he said.
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