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Disruptive Films brings its dramatic feature "Briar Basin Ranch" to a close with the release of the third and final chapter of the production from directors Michael Vegas, Siouxsie Q. and Jessica Jasmin, and writer Taylor Saracen.

HCN prides itself on digging deep, but this month we literally go underground, accompanying Emily Benson into a Wyoming cave, where scientists who study cave formations hope that 100,000-year-old weather data can help us understand climate change. This summer’s flooding damaged property around Yellowstone National Park, but in the long run it might refresh the ecosystem. Despite a recent Supreme Court decision, the Environmental Protection Agency can still shut down polluters. There’s money ...

New trails and skills parks opening in Illinois, Michigan, and North Carolina plus a trail center takes shape in Northamptonshire, England.

As the climate crisis worsens, Pitkin County is working with a group of local stakeholders to capture a large amount of methane that’s been leaking out of abandoned coal mines in the Coal Basin area above the town of Redstone.

A free mountain biking event at Coal Basin Ranch on Saturday is aimed to get kids out on the trails.

  Melting snow and flowing irrigation ditches mean spring has finally arrived at the base of Grand Mesa in western Colorado. Harts Basin Ranch, a 3,400-acre expanse of hayfields and pasture just south of Cedaredge, in Delta County, is coming back to life with the return of water. Twelve hundred of the ranch’s acres are irrigated with water from Alfalfa Ditch, diverted from Surface Creek, which flows down the south slopes of the Grand Mesa. The ranch has the No. 1 priority water right — mea...

An autonomous tent has popped up near Rocky Mountain National Park, providing people with a luxury glamping experience, in one of the most beautiful places in Colorado. The building process of the project was featured on an episode of "Building off the Grid" on the DIY Network over a year ago, and the labor of love at the Antler Basin Ranch is finally complete — but what exactly is an autonomous tent anyways? The creators of these private hideaways call autonomous tents a new kind of sust...

Originally published on May 5, 2021 1:44 pm Melting snow and flowing irrigation ditches mean spring has finally arrived at the base of Grand Mesa in western Colorado. Harts Basin Ranch, a 3,400-acre expanse of hayfields and pasture just south of Cedaredge, in Delta County, is coming back to life with the return of water. Twelve hundred of the ranch’s acres are irrigated with water from Alfalfa Ditch, diverted from Surface Creek, which flows down the south slopes of the Grand Mesa. The ranc...

Aspen Journalism/KUNC Conscience Bay Company President Eli Feldman stands at a headgate on the Alfalfa Ditch near Cedaredge. Feldman, whose company owns Harts Basin Ranch and irrigates with water from the ditch, has been accused of water speculation: buying the ranch just for the future value of the water. Heather Sackett/Aspen Journalism ECKERT — Melting snow and flowing irrigation ditches mean spring has finally arrived at the base of Grand Mesa in western Colorado. Harts Basin Ranch, a 3,4...

Aspen Journalism Melting snow and flowing irrigation ditches mean spring has finally arrived at the base of Grand Mesa in western Colorado. Harts Basin Ranch, a 3,400-acre expanse of hayfields and pasture just south of Cedaredge, in Delta County, is coming back to life with the return of water. Twelve hundred of the ranch’s acres are irrigated with water from Alfalfa Ditch, diverted from Surface Creek, which flows down the south slopes of the Grand Mesa. The ranch has the No. 1 priority water...