Winding up Sweetwater Road, north of Interstate 70 near Dotsero, nearly every home displays a yellow sign with “STATE PARK” circled in red and struck through above the words: “TRULY SAVE SWEETWATER LAKE.” Neighbors are making public their concerns as the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) solicits feedback on its proposed management and development project at […]
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Uinta Basin Railway: When is a railroad not a railroad?
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) earlier this month dealt another blow to the beleaguered Uinta Basin Railway (UBR), an 88-mile line proposed to connect oil fields in the Uinta Basin to the national rail network near Price, Utah, in order to access Gulf Coast refineries. The trains coming out of Price would have increased the […]
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Sweetwater on the rocks
Sweetwater Lake has turned into a thorn in the side of the Garfield County Commissioners, caught off guard when Governor Jared Polis declared that the newly purchased federal land may become Colorado’s 43rd state park. In September 2019, during a public meeting the commissioners discussed the plan of the United States Forest Service (USFS) to […]