{"id":5365,"date":"2025-06-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koto.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5365"},"modified":"2025-06-18T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:17:02","slug":"newscast-6-18-25","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/koto.org\/es\/news\/newscast-6-18-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Newscast 6-18-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Public Lands Back on the Chopping Block <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Norwood Gazebo Project Gets Green Light<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sounds from the Bluegrass Campground<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Public Lands Back on the Chopping Block<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Senate Republicans unveiled their budget reconciliation bill earlier this week, including increased mandates for the disposal of public lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the House reconciliation bill\u2014which called for the disposal of up to 3 million acres of federally managed public lands\u2014the Senate version adjusts language to open up more than 250 million acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill claims the sale of federal lands would fund former President Donald Trump\u2019s policy agenda. It calls for the sale of at least 0.5% and up to 0.75% of all National Forest and Bureau of Land Management lands, totaling up to 3.3 million acres. Lands considered for disposal include nearly 250 million acres, with limited exclusions for designated wilderness areas, national parks, and certain mineral claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>San Miguel County Director of Natural Resources and Climate Resiliency Starr Jamison presented to the Board of County Commissioners at their June 18 meeting on drafting a response letter to the Senate bill. The legislation claims land sales could be used to support affordable housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a tough one,\u201d Jamison said. \u201cWe need affordable housing. This just may not be the way to do it. This language is too vague. The risk of private coming in for just housing development\u2014I think it\u2019s just too risky for public land.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commissioners agreed to draft a letter to send to Colorado Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet, as well as Rep. Jeff Hurd. The bill would open nearly 5 million acres of Forest Service land in Colorado alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve written so many letters, I think that Senator Hickenlooper is on board already,\u201d said Commissioner Lance Waring. \u201cAnd Senator Bennet will do the same. Mr. Hurd\u2014Jeff, as he asked me to call him\u2014may or may not be. I hope that he is, so let\u2019s get this letter done. It doesn\u2019t have to be spot-on perfect. I think that if we can get it out quickly, that\u2019s more important than doing exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local lands under consideration for disposal include areas within the Telluride Ski Resort, parts of Ophir, and popular recreation trails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis bill would allow thousands of acres as long as you build one house on it,\u201d said Telluride resident Morgan Smith during public comment. \u201cAnd you can just imagine if you have Trump\u2019s ear or his secretary\u2019s ears. You could easily see the type of things that would happen with this. So I think especially in light of the timing of this\u2014the focus really should be, as Anne said, kill it, kill it all, kill it now, and then try and later on come up with something that would be reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jamison said she would finalize the draft letter as soon as possible. She noted that local environmental, hunting, and outdoor recreation nonprofits are working on similar efforts to oppose the bill and assess its potential impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Norwood Gazebo Project Gets Green Light<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A creative installation is moving forward in Norwood after a few delays. Rocky Mountain Arts, a local creative nonprofit, is behind the project, which incorporates local youth and a variety of artistic methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erin Reis, the project\u2019s organizer, said it\u2019s an evolution of programming developed through the Telluride Fire Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe produced the Telluride Fire Festival since 2015, we produced it for eight years,\u201d Reis said. \u201cAnd as that program continued we added youth programs, and one of them was a youth sculpture-building workshop for two days that we had kids build a wooden sculpture that we then burned at the festival, along with some other very intricate sculptures that other adult artists built. And it went so well, these kids\u2019 youth sculpture workshops \u2014 we did two of them \u2014 and I thought to myself, wow, we should be doing something bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reis said the current project centers around the construction of a gazebo using artistic elements from local youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the effort hit a snag when the installation team damaged a fiber-optic line in Norwood\u2019s community garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure you guys are aware that Rocky Mountain Arts tried to install a gazebo in the community garden and they ended up hitting a fiber line in the process,\u201d said Town Manager Sara Owens. \u201cWe did have to report it to our insurance because it&#8217;s on our property. They are taking full responsibility to cover all the costs of the damage. But with that being said, we no longer feel it is appropriate to build the gazebo over at the community garden.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owens said the site poses a risk because of underground utilities. \u201cThe space is limited,\u201d she said. \u201cWe feel like if they were to reconstruct over there, with all the utilities running under that property, there\u2019s a high likelihood that this could happen again. Staff would really like to see a change of location.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reis, Owens and members of the Rocky Mountain Arts team joined the Norwood Board of Trustees meeting on June 11 to discuss alternatives. Mayor Candy Meehan voiced strong support for the project and suggested the town park as a new site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m on board 100%. I want to see it come to fruition,\u201d Meehan said. \u201cI was not aware that the locates weren\u2019t done, and I was baffled when the locates were done about how many conflicts there were with height and fiber and these types of things that just make that not the space we thought it would be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meehan said the gazebo could better serve the public in the park. \u201cWith more consideration in the parking lots, lots of traffic and kids coming from the library \u2014 and everybody I know has gotten a sunburn at the pickleball court \u2014 so the opportunity to service them and the small children, I support that 100%,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I hope that would be something that you would consider.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trustees agreed to work with Rocky Mountain Arts to identify a suitable spot in the town park, near the Lone Cone Library. The gazebo is expected to provide much-needed shade for both pickleball players and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sounds From the Bluegrass Campground<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The banjos are twanging, the feet are stomping, it\u2019s officially bluegrass season! At the Town Park campground, festivarians are already celebrating. KOTO\u2019s Mia Taubenblat spent a day wandering through the tents to hear more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story begins at:<\/em> 6:17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BOOK SERIES HIGHLIGHTS LIFE IN THE OLD WEST<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A mini-book club series begins June 23 at the Wilkinson Public Library. Kicking off the series is Telluride resident David Lavender, grandson of the author of <em>One Man\u2019s West<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book explores the American West of the 1930s and 1940s, when it was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers and mountaineers\u2014one that demanded backbreaking, lonely and dangerous work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>One Man\u2019s West<\/em> is Lavender\u2019s ode to his days on the Continental Divide in the Telluride region and the story of his experiences making a living in the not-so-wild but not-yet-tamed West,&#8221; organizers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event is free and begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Wilkinson Public Library. More information is available at telluridelibrary.org.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">JEWISH FILM SERIES KICKS OFF WITH <em>THE RING<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Telluride Jewish Community presents the first film of its three-part summer series Sunday, June 22. <em>The Ring<\/em> explores love, loss and rediscovery within an Israeli family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film has earned critical acclaim and festival recognition, including a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 2024 Ophir Awards. It has been featured at the Paris Israeli Film Festival, the Seret Festival in London and Amsterdam, the Toronto Jewish Film Festival and other events across North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets are available at theringtelluride.eventbrite.com. Doors open at 3:30 p.m., with the film beginning at 4. Candy and refreshments will be available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TRUMP ORDER TO CONSOLIDATE FEDERAL FIREFIGHTING AGENCIES<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An executive order from President Donald Trump mandates that the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior consolidate their wildland firefighting operations\u2014a major shift in federal policy. The order gives the agencies, whose operations primarily involve the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, 90 days to complete the transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 2008 Congressional Research Service report found that while such a move might save money, it could also carry serious risks. The report cited concerns about separating fire management from land management, potentially leading to an overemphasis on suppression rather than prevention and ecosystem resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local field offices have yet to receive implementation details, but existing interagency partnerships could be affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tommy Hayes, who manages the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit\u2014a 20-year collaboration between the BLM and Forest Service in western Colorado\u2014says the agencies merged operations following the deadly 1994 South Canyon Fire near Glenwood Springs, where 14 firefighters died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe took away those barriers of what color of shirt you&#8217;re wearing, what color of an engine you&#8217;re driving,\u201d Hayes said. \u201cWe&#8217;re one program. There is no differentiation between agencies within the UCR. Not a single agency can do it alone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayes said his unit is fully staffed with firefighters ahead of what\u2019s expected to be a busy season. \u201cWe\u2019re hoping to fill in some gaps on the support staff that make firefighting possible, from drivers to dispatchers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">COLORADO TRACKS FUNDING THREATS FROM TRUMP ADMINISTRATION<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Colorado has released a new public dashboard showing funds either threatened or eliminated by the Trump administration. 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