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Jan 11, 2025 · Aspen Journalism's nonprofit newsroom reporting on water, environment, social justice, history and data from Aspen to Marble to upper Colorado River Basin.
Forest Service presents results of beaver inventory
2 days ago · Beavers have constructed a network of dams and lodges on this Woody Creek property. Pitkin County funded a two-year beaver inventory in the headwaters of the Roaring Fork and its tributaries. Credit: HEATHER SACKETT/Aspen Journalism Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made ...
Newsletters Archive - Aspen Journalism
Nov 20, 2024 · Recently at Aspen Journalism, we dig deep into critical water issues on the Western Slope and across the wider Colorado River basin, working conditions at a key Aspen lodging and convention site, and what the fate of a small, historic former gallery in the Castle Creek Valley has to say about our community’s history and […]
Aspenites call for restoring humanistic values - Aspen Journalism
19 hours ago · “Do good for the pure love of the good.” – Albert Schweitzer From his keynote address, Goethe Bicentennial, Aspen, 1949 The high ideals of Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) represent the greatest challenge and opportunity Aspen has ever faced. “A man is truly ethical,” wrote Schweitzer, “only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life […]
2023 Aspen Journalism Annual Report
Aspen Journalism is a nonprofit, reader-funded newsroom providing communities in the Roaring Fork watershed and upper Colorado River basin with independent, investigative, data-driven reporting on complex issues of water, environment, social justice and history — coverage that is unique in our local media landscape.
The Roundup | The difference journalism can make
Feb 6, 2024 · Reservoir along Thompson Creek voluntarily canceled. A company that was seeking to extend its nearly 60-year-old conditional water right for a reservoir tied to oil-and-gas drilling that would be sited along Thompson Creek near Carbondale backed away from its application in water court, after Water Desk Editor Heather Sackett broke the news last month that the application was proceeding.
The Roundup | The building block of democracy - Aspen Journalism
Nov 7, 2024 · No matter how you feel about the election results, we can all agree on the importance of fact-based civil discourse and an informed public. “Well informed citizens make better decisions” has been our motto since Aspen Journalism’s founding in the wake of the Great Recession. In our almost 14 years in business, we’ve published more […]
The Roundup | Historic losses of community echo today
Jan 25, 2024 · Speaking of the past and future, in another story published in the last week, Aspen Journalism Water Desk Editor Heather Sackett illuminates how relics of the past are continuing to pose ongoing challenges for Colorado’s water system.The issue is decades-old conditional rights to build dams and reservoirs on Western Slope waterways, which remain on the books to this day, so long as the ...
From the headwaters to local housing to the lower basin - Aspen …
Dec 18, 2023 · Even in the midst of our end-of-year campaign, we are keeping up the high quality editorial production you know us for. See below for a comprehensive report on ski town affordable housing from Data Editor Laurine Lassalle and an investigation into what has come of the predictions from 10 years ago that the CRJ-700 — the only commercial aircraft serving the Aspen airport — would be phased ...
Regionalism evolves as a uniting force from Aspen to Parachute
Apr 18, 2024 · The community I am searching for extends more than 80 miles, from Aspen to Parachute. This contiguous, linear city clusters along Highway 82 and Interstate 70, and has a population of about 90,000 – roughly the size of Longmont — and that’s before counting the second homeowners and tourists.