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How climate change could hurt Colorado’s bottom line
Folks at Aspen have been noticing changes in the ski season. | flickr user Zach Dischner
The Climate Desk is a new collaborative effort to blah blah blah. That’s how I felt when I read the various releases about the Climate Desk today. Sorry, it’s true.
Here’s what it is: a bunch of people writing about climate change. At the moment, they’re looking at the business of climate change, which is pretty fascinating. Some of the stories come from established news sources like Mother Jones, Grist, Slate and the Atlantic, and some appear to be special to the Climate Desk.
The featured story at the moment gets into just how folks are planning on making money (or losing less money) thanks to climate change, saying, “Spend a couple of hours wandering through the websites of various industrial associations—aluminum manufacturers, real-estate agents, wineries, agribusinesses, take your pick—and you’ll find straightforward statements about the grim reality of climate change that wouldn’t seem out of place coming from Greenpeace.”
And there’s even a little look at Colorado’s most famous industry: Read more
Steamboat bear cubs sent to rehab
A cinnamon-colored bear gets a treat from a bird feeder. Photo courtesy Estes Park Trail Gazette.
It’s been a bad season for bears in Colorado. And it doesn’t seem to be getting better.
Four young bears around Steamboat Springs with a penchant for berries just got moved to Rifle for rehab. From the Steamboat Pilot & Today:
Ripe serviceberries and chokecherries around Steamboat Springs are drawing black bears in from the wilderness, keeping Division of Wildlife officers and homeowners busy this summer deterring, and sometimes killing, nuisance bears.
Area Wildlife Manager Jim Haskins said his office has moved two yearlings away from town and two cubs to a rehabilitation center in Rifle. Also this summer, authorized trappers have killed at least three nuisance bears in northern Routt County, and landowners have killed about four bears as they protected livestock in the northern part of the county. One homeowner killed a bear outside of Hayden.
The bear mayhem in Colorado has been particularly bad in Aspen (as usual), but bear problems have popped up across the state, including Boulder County.
Already this year, a 74-year-old woman in Ouray (who was known to feed bears) was killed by a bear in her backyard. In Snowmass, a bear got stuck in a sunken skatepark and had to use a ladder to crawl out. In Aspen, a bear chewed on the leg of a napping woman.
And in Boulder County, bears have been busy visiting houses in the foothills, on one occassion stealing fresh-baked biscotti off of a windowsill. Another bear that broke into a home up sunshine canyon was killed by a startled homeowner who shot the bear with his shotgun.
Read the full story about the bears in Steamboat Springs, or check out guidelines for how to live safely with bears from the Colorado Division of Wildlife.
