Ali Longwell

1 week ago | aspentimes.com | Ali Longwell

A long-awaited program to prevent and reduce conflict between wolves and producers in Colorado is ready for launch. Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Colorado Department of Agriculture have hired 12 range riders who are preparing to start helping producers across northwest Colorado this month. The program makes Colorado one of three states — with Washington and Arizona — to sponsor a range riding program.

1 week ago | skyhinews.com | Ali Longwell

Colorado legislators are hoping that imposing a new 1% fee on homeowners insurance will help stabilize the state’s increasingly volatile marketplace. A bill proposal is making its way through the state legislature that would create two new enterprises within the Colorado Division of Insurance to tackle the two biggest cost drivers in the state’s property insurance market: hail and wildfire.

1 week ago | skyhinews.com | Ali Longwell

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission has reached a settlement agreement with two national hunting advocacy groups in a lawsuit claiming that two commissioners violated Colorado’s open meeting laws by writing an op-ed during the November election. The lawsuit was over an opinion article that ran in The Durango Herald during the fight over a measure that sought to ban the hunting of mountain lions, lynx and bobcats in Colorado.

1 week ago | postindependent.com | Ali Longwell

The bill would also prevent judicial review of the action following legal ping-pong over wolves’ delisting in the past A bill to delist gray wolves from the federal Endangered Species Act is heading to the U.S. House of Representatives after clearing its first hurdle. The legislation — championed by Colorado Republican Rep.

1 week ago | vaildaily.com | Ali Longwell

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission has reached a settlement agreement with two national hunting advocacy groups in a lawsuit claiming that two commissioners violated Colorado’s open meeting laws by writing an op-ed during the November election. The lawsuit was over an opinion article that ran in The Durango Herald during the fight over a measure that sought to ban the hunting of mountain lions, lynx and bobcats in Colorado.