Quotes
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Barack Obama
"Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in Senate." Orson Welles
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. Theodore Roosevelt
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. Ronald Reagan
Excerpt from Murder in the Rockies
In 1893, Andrew Coyle gets off of the train in Denver and checks into a famous hotel.
Coyle walked half a block to the Windsor, and once inside put his suitcases down to survey the lobby. It was as beautiful as any hotel in his hometown of Philadelphia, or at least as good looking as any hotel in Pittsburgh. A cut-glass chandelier hung from the ornate ceiling which looked to be two stories up. Between two Corinthian columns a mahogany front desk stood in front of rows of pigeonholes for room keys and mail. Groups of red velveteen easy chairs and settees sat in small groups around the room.
"Ahhh," Coyle sighed, "Civilization in the Wild West."
He spotted a side door with a sign over it that said, "Gentlemen's Smoking Room and Bar."
My, how times have changed. ~ G. Eldon Smith
To get your Amazon copy: highlight the LINK below, then right click, then click on "Open Link"
https://www.amazon.com/G-Eldon-Smith/dp/1938467701
Gunnison Sage Grouse
In December 2011, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead and then-Interior Secretary Ken Salazar established a Sage-Grouse Task Force that consisted of representatives of each of the affected states and relevant federal agencies. Over months and years a plan was fashioned that states, federal agencies, and private land owners all agreed to. When added to the body of past and current efforts, it would ensure a viable sage-grouse population in the West and preclude the listing of the species.
Three years later, that plan was reviewed by incoming Interior Secretary Zinke (at that time) to slash Sage-grouse protection. The Bureau of Land Management’s proposed changes would unravel greater sage-grouse protections put in place just three years before. In 2015 western states and federal officials had approved plans to reverse the bird’s decline and prevent the need to list it as endangered.
Now in 2020, six environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management for the federal plan that would allow more drilling on public lands that make up the Sage Grouse Habitat. The public lands in question involve Colorado counties of Montrose, Gunnison, Ouray, Mesa, Delta, and San Miguel.
We will report in future blogs, the outcome of the lawsuit against plans to attack with more drilling on public lands. This habitat is the home of a species that only exists in Colorado and Utah, and the number of Sage Grouse is quickly dwindling.
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Barack Obama
"Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in Senate." Orson Welles
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. Theodore Roosevelt
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. Ronald Reagan
Excerpt from Murder in the Rockies
In 1893, Andrew Coyle gets off of the train in Denver and checks into a famous hotel.
Coyle walked half a block to the Windsor, and once inside put his suitcases down to survey the lobby. It was as beautiful as any hotel in his hometown of Philadelphia, or at least as good looking as any hotel in Pittsburgh. A cut-glass chandelier hung from the ornate ceiling which looked to be two stories up. Between two Corinthian columns a mahogany front desk stood in front of rows of pigeonholes for room keys and mail. Groups of red velveteen easy chairs and settees sat in small groups around the room.
"Ahhh," Coyle sighed, "Civilization in the Wild West."
He spotted a side door with a sign over it that said, "Gentlemen's Smoking Room and Bar."
My, how times have changed. ~ G. Eldon Smith
To get your Amazon copy: highlight the LINK below, then right click, then click on "Open Link"
https://www.amazon.com/G-Eldon-Smith/dp/1938467701
Gunnison Sage Grouse
In December 2011, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead and then-Interior Secretary Ken Salazar established a Sage-Grouse Task Force that consisted of representatives of each of the affected states and relevant federal agencies. Over months and years a plan was fashioned that states, federal agencies, and private land owners all agreed to. When added to the body of past and current efforts, it would ensure a viable sage-grouse population in the West and preclude the listing of the species.
Three years later, that plan was reviewed by incoming Interior Secretary Zinke (at that time) to slash Sage-grouse protection. The Bureau of Land Management’s proposed changes would unravel greater sage-grouse protections put in place just three years before. In 2015 western states and federal officials had approved plans to reverse the bird’s decline and prevent the need to list it as endangered.
Now in 2020, six environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management for the federal plan that would allow more drilling on public lands that make up the Sage Grouse Habitat. The public lands in question involve Colorado counties of Montrose, Gunnison, Ouray, Mesa, Delta, and San Miguel.
We will report in future blogs, the outcome of the lawsuit against plans to attack with more drilling on public lands. This habitat is the home of a species that only exists in Colorado and Utah, and the number of Sage Grouse is quickly dwindling.
Two male Sage Grouses showing off to impress hens.