by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel People often ask me what “consultants” like me actually do. It’s a logical question because there is such a fine line between “self-employed” and “unemployed.” And there are as many different types of consulting as there are consultants. Sometimes I get paid to write [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel It is estimated that there are more trees in the eastern United States than when the first Europeans arrived in the 15th century. It is an encouraging story about mankind’s ability to restore what was harvested with reckless abandon during centuries of economic growth. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In the children’s book, the big bad wolf threatens to “huff and puff and blow your house down.” Colorado’s wolves may still be huffing and puffing but the rest is uncertain. Of the 25 wolves the state introduced between 2023 and 2025, 11 are [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Last week, the Washington Post ran a lengthy article about the Palisade peach business, especially how this year’s Colorado River water problems may affect one of the West’s most unique industries. Several friends in D.C. called me about it, surprised that the Post would [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Glenwood Canyon’s Hanging Lake Tunnels are modern engineering marvels, completed in 1991 at a cost of $75 million. They are three-quarters of a mile long and house a parking area for maintenance vehicles and a space-age command center that monitors cameras, operates variable message [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Colorado has often been called the “rooftop state” because the water that falls on Colorado flows to other states, with virtually none flowing in. Geologists call it a “headwaters state” because so much of the nation’s water supply originates in Colorado. Both distinctions have [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The Common Sense Institute (CSI) just published an analysis of the economic impact of hunting and fishing in Colorado, to help inform debate on a November ballot measure called Amendment 83. It would enshrine in the state constitution the right of the people to [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Hagrid is one of the most beloved characters in the Harry Potter series. The half-giant befriends Harry and his cohorts Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, with whom he develops the habit of letting slip bits of information that were supposed to be confidential. He [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 1989, the U.S. Forest Service published a 13-page booklet (Program Aid No. 1442) titled, “Trees are the answer... to America’s growing environmental concerns.” The Society of American Foresters turned it into a bumper sticker and by the end of the 1990s cars across [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel John Wesley Powell, the 19th century Colorado River explorer and long-time head of the U.S. Geological Survey, published one of the earliest analyses of the American Southwest in 1879, called “Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States.” He may [...]
