Crystal Valley Environmental Protection Association
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Aug. 24, 2022
CVEPA celebrates 50 years
For its 50th anniversary celebration at Sunfire Ranch on Sunday, Aug. 21, the Crystal Valley Environmental Protection Association welcomed well over a hundred attendees, ranging from longtime supporters to newcomers bracing to take up the charge of protecting the Crystal Valley for another 50 years to come. Founding board member…… read more → -
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Aug. 17, 2022
CVEPA Views: Local Food in the Crystal Valley
By Dale Will
It wasn’t long ago that many were predicting the end of agriculture in our valley. Rising real estate values were seen as the death knell to our local capacity to grow food. Fortunately, we’re now in the midst of a true renaissance in public concern about local… read more →
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Jun. 29, 2022
CVEPA Views: The Critically Thirsty West
At this time, 39 years ago, “federal officials scrambled to avoid one of the most dramatic dam failures in history.” Glen Canyon Dam was bursting at the seams with water and rock blasting out around its foundation while crews raced to install a rampart of plywood sheets across the top… read more →
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Columns,
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May. 25, 2022
CVEPA Views: Marble’s Treasure
It was early that cold morning in late September, 1982, when we approached the Skyline Mine Portal at 11,776 feet of elevation on Treasure Mountain.
I had to rub my eyes at what unfolded in front of us. In a Neanderthal scene, a young man came out of the dark… read more →
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Feb. 23, 2022
Marble Wetlands Preserve created through land donation
A long-sought Marble-area land donation was completed at the end of 2021 between an anonymous donor and the Trust for Land Restoration (TLR), a Ridgway-based nonprofit. The property, a 54-acre strip of land with wetlands on one side and steep forested hillside on the other, has been used by the… read more →
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Nov. 23, 2021
CVEPA Views: Weighing methane capture
The view from the Dutch Creek Mine Number One, above Redstone, was breathtaking but the air was breathless. The stillness made the constant coursing of the methane gas from the old mine portal even more pronounced.
Chris Caskey is a climatologist from Paonia and owner of the Delta Brick… read more →
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Columns,
Opinion
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Sep. 29, 2021
CVEPA Views: What’s all the fuss about Marble?
Every time you pick up the paper it seems there is an article about Marble. It might be about the Marble Quarry, off highway vehicle (OHV) impacts, Wild and Scenic Designation or simply overcrowding. Why all the interest in this little hamlet way up the Crystal River? For… read more →
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News
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Sep. 1, 2021
CVEPA shares perspective
On Aug. 29, the Crystal Valley Environmental Protection Association (CVEPA) board conducted their annual public meeting at Propaganda Pie in Redstone. Longtime Western State University professor of history Dr. Duane Vandenbusche was the keynote speaker and focused on the importance of water conservation in the West.
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Aug. 25, 2021
CVEPA contemplates history
By Suzy Meredith-Orr
“Water, Lifeblood of the West” is the topic for the 49th annual meeting of the Crystal Valley Environmental Protection Association (CVEPA). The meeting is set for Sunday afternoon, Aug. 29, in Redstone. CVEPA is the only group devoted solely to the environmental defense of… read more →