All Clippings From The ‘Health & Wellness’ Category

September 25th, 2015

Valley Gardening: The Fabulous Non-Commercial Egyptian Walking Onion

Egyptian Walking onions in a Hotchkiss street planter – 2014   Valley Gardening:  The Fabulous Non-Commercial Egyptian Walking Onion By Thomas Wills In the 1990’s my wife and I became friends with a wonderful older couple, Joe and Mary Monson,…Click to view post »


September 24th, 2015

CHC Clarifies Position on SGI Lease Exchange – No Longer Supports Trade Off

Local gas activists on a recent lobbyng trip on behalf to the Valley to Washington D.C.  CHC Clarifies Position on SGI Lease Exchange  –  No Longer Supports Trade Off       (This message was sent out by  Citizens for…Click to view post »


September 24th, 2015

Valley Issue: Federal leaders, western governors celebrate 11-state effort to help sage-grouse

Valley Issue: Federal leaders, western governors celebrate 11-state effort to help sage-grouse “The decision whether or not to list the greater sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act was one of the biggest listing decisions of our time. Thanks to unprecedented public-private partnerships among…Click to view post »


September 23rd, 2015

Out-of-state interests write the Thompson Divide SGI exchange playbook for Scott Tipton

Out-of-state interests write the Thompson Divide playbook for Scott Tipton  Opinion – Chris Saeger – Western Values Project When it comes to the plan to exchange oil and gas leases in Colorado’s Thompson Divide region, nearly all the players—industry, communities,…Click to view post »


September 21st, 2015

Climate Change is Liberal Hoax: Reply to a Local Climate Skeptic

Climate Change is Liberal Hoax: Reply to a Local Climate Skeptic By Thomas Wills “(Human caused) Climate change is a threat to human societies and natural ecosystems, yet public opinion research finds that public awareness and concern vary greatly. Here, using…Click to view post »


September 19th, 2015

Forest Service Announces Draft Decision to Approve New Gas Wells for the Upper North Fork Valley

  Forest Service Announces Draft Decision to Approve New Gas Wells for the Upper North Fork Valley  (Citizens for a Healthy Community) Click above to view the USFS web site for this project. The Forest Service has proposed to approve…Click to view post »


September 13th, 2015

Volunteers Save Local Man from Heart Attack: It Takes a Community to Save a Life

Volunteers Save Local Man from Heart Attack: It Takes a Community to Save a Life By Thomas Wills On a day in mid-July, Larry Hicks was at his job at Zack’s BBQ, a familiar figure for a quarter century to…Click to view post »


September 10th, 2015

North Fork Real Estate: Water that Tastes Like Million Dollars

North Fork Real Estate: Water that Tastes Like Million Dollars By Mike Jackson – Western Colorado Realty.com – Hotchkiss and Paonia offices. As a local real estate agent it’s part of our job to disclose where the water comes from…Click to view post »


August 29th, 2015

BLM to unveil long-awaited Uncompahgre RM plan

BLM to unveil long-awaited Uncompahgre RM plan Posted on August 24, 2015 by WCC (Western Colorado Congress) by Matt King, WCC Organizer This fall, the Bureau of Land Management’s Uncompahgre Field Office is expected to release the first draft of its…Click to view post »


August 28th, 2015

Climate Change and the North Fork Valley

Climate Change and the North Fork Valley By Thomas Wills  Human Caused Climate Change impacts have been happening in the mountain regions surrounding the North Fork Valley for a while now.  Two visible examples of this during the past two…Click to view post »