#public-lands

#public-lands

The Willow Project from ConocoPhillips may be one of the last of its kind-but environmental advocates still worry about its impact on the Arctic.Listen & Subscribe
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ALBUQUERQUE For one 73-year-old patient in our hospital system, the simple act of breathing has become so difficult that a short walk during a medical appointment caused his blood oxygen levels to dangerously plummet.A retired Marine, he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and uses supplemental oxygen but can no longer walk to his pickup truck without a struggle.

Colorado Public Radio announced a new short-form podcast pairing reflections on nature with soundscapes gathered in wild places.Terra Firma will feature the stories of CMarie Furhman, a Colorado-born, Indigenous poet and writer, with outdoor sounds collected on public lands by sound recordist Jacob Job.

Thursday, January 12, 2023 by Seth Smalley
A minor debate flared up at Tuesday's Travis County Commissioners Court meeting about installing Flock, a license plate surveillance system, on public lands in the county - specifically Rob Roy, a private residential neighborhood in Austin.Members of the homeowners association of Rob Roy on the Creek requested that six automatic license plate reading cameras be installed on Furlong Drive, Newhall Lane and Beardsley Lane.

Local "It takes an idiot to vandalize public property to start with, but it takes a really malicious idiot to vandalize public property that exists to ensure access to the outdoors for people with disabilities."Carbuncle Pond was not stocked with special fish like other bodies of water were in honor of Veterans Day this weekend, after "one or more knuckleheads" threw a portable toilet into the water, according to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.

On the banks of Little Whanganui River, on New Zealand's remote West Coast, the fossilized ribs and vertebrae of a whale have been embedded in a shelf of sandstone for about 23 million years.That is, until Sunday.As flabbergasted local residents watched, two men, armed with a rock saw and chisel, cut the fossil out of the rock in broad daylight, before rowing it down the river to a trailer, where a woman was waiting, and driving away.

Thousands of acres of parklands will soon be linked after Santa Clara County supervisors voted Tuesday to purchase two tracts of land located near the Santa Cruz Mountains.The lands  which combined will cost the county $1.6 million and are located near the southernmost edge of Santa Clara County  will end up connecting 5,622 acres between Mt.