1 09, 2023

Walcher: California condors on Mount Garfield?

2023-09-05T11:34:08-04:00September 1st, 2023|Colorado, ESA, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Last week we mentioned the Biden administration’s “Investing in America Agenda,” and how the Interior Department is spending $44 million of its windfall share of the recent massive spending bills. It is ironic, to say the most, to call government spending [...]

11 08, 2023

Walcher: How much is an endangered fish worth?

2023-08-17T10:59:23-04:00August 11th, 2023|Bad Science, ESA, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Several years ago, I wrote about what I thought must be the world’s most valuable fish. It was not a collectable aquarium fish, though buyers will pay $1,000 for an orange and purple striped Candy Basslet, and $2,500 for a Wrought [...]

17 03, 2023

Walcher: How to unite a divided region

2023-03-21T14:19:49-04:00March 17th, 2023|ESA, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel With the departure of Club 20’s executive director, and the search for a new one, several observers openly wonder whether the organization can still accomplish what it became famous for, uniting the Western Slope to speak with one voice on important [...]

10 03, 2023

Walcher: Are we encroaching, or are they?

2023-03-15T11:19:56-04:00March 10th, 2023|ESA, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A little girl was playing in the ocean with her family at Huntington Beach, California, when a coyote came charging across the sand and attacked, putting the little girl in the hospital. Another coyote went after a child on her home’s [...]

7 10, 2022

Walcher: Both sides have the same rule book

2022-10-10T14:48:55-04:00October 7th, 2022|California, ESA, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Last summer a federal judge in California vacated a series of Trump-era rules on enforcement of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). It was a disappointment to many who had worked for years on several relatively modest reforms to make the cumbersome [...]

22 07, 2022

Walcher: Protecting what is already protected

2022-07-26T12:29:59-04:00July 22nd, 2022|"Climate Change", Colorado, ESA, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The New York Times recently opined that the endangered species law could be used to stop oil and gas production nationwide, because no matter where the drilling is, it contributes to climate change everywhere. Thus, sea turtles in Florida or monk [...]

8 07, 2022

Walcher: Endangered species and the butterfly metaphor

2022-07-11T12:07:13-04:00July 8th, 2022|Colorado, ESA, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The “butterfly metaphor” describes the need for people and organizations to change their ways, thinking differently about the way things have always been. It is fitting in the halls of government, where the status quo is paramount, and pundits joke about [...]

1 07, 2022

Walcher: Things are coming to a head

2022-07-07T12:13:44-04:00July 1st, 2022|Colorado, ESA, Media Coverage, Walcher, Water|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Old timers who manage ditches, head gates and canals often mention the “head of water.” It refers, somewhat imprecisely, to an amount of water needed to force its movement over various distances. A bigger hayfield requires a bigger “head of water” [...]

24 06, 2022

Walcher: Trying to seal the deal

2022-06-27T08:57:56-04:00June 24th, 2022|Colorado, ESA, Fake News, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A disturbing photo topped the June 15 New York Times article, supposedly graphic evidence that the Earth is dying, starting with its cutest animals. It is a compelling picture, although the message is as misleading as it is powerful. It shows [...]

22 04, 2021

Walcher: What would Harry say?

2021-04-26T14:53:44-04:00April 22nd, 2021|ESA, Media Coverage, Walcher|

by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel I couldn’t help thinking about my friend, the late Harry Talbott, this week when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) designated nearly 300,000 acres as critical habitat for the yellow-billed cuckoo. Harry was a conservation icon, not only because of [...]

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