Bear hunting eyed to limit population, conflicts
\n(Aspen Times © 01/30/2012) (Registration Required)\n
ASPEN — The number of black bears killed by hunters in the Aspen area increased in 2010 after Colorado Parks and Wildlife issued more licenses to try to r");
document.write("educe the population and potentially decrease conflicts between bruins and humans.\n\nState wildlife officials decided in 2009 to issue more licenses for the fall bear hunt in 2010 in what's known as data analysis unit B-11, a vast geographic...\n
Boulder plans test of bear-resistant trash bins
\n(Boulder ");
document.write("Daily Camera © 01/27/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Living with bears \n\n\nBlack bears are curious and will east almost anything. Here's a few tips for preventing bears from visiting your neighborhood: \n\n\n 1. Secure your trash \n\n\n 2. Remove bird feeders \n\n\n 3. Keep barbecues clean \n\n\n 4. Keep pet food indoors \n\n\n 5. Keep garage doors closed \n\n\n 6. Secure windows and doors \n\n\n 7. Be responsible about trash and bird feeders \n\n\n 8. Don't leave ...\n
Public in Paonia say privacy doesn?t justify Bear Ranch land swap
\n(Aspen Daily News © 01/16/2012)
PAONIA, Colo. ? Billionaire Bill Koch, who has made his presence felt in Aspen by suing the city over hydropower water rights and proposing a million-dollar guardrail on Castle Creek Road, has also attracted the attention of residents over McClure Pass.\n\n?\n\nKoch, who is building a Western-style ");
document.write("compound on his 4,500-acre Bear Ranch east of Paonia Reservoir and below Ragged Mountain, is proposing a...\n
Missing snow turns up in Aspen
\n(Aspen Times © 01/09/2012) (Registration Required)\n
ASPEN — There was no need to redefine winter sports Sunday after M");
document.write("other Nature dropped a coat of fresh powder on the Aspen area and its four ski mountains.\n\n“It's about time,” visitor James Duncan said as he rode the Hunter Creek bus into downtown Aspen on Saturday evening. It was 6 p.m., the flakes were falling at a fairly rapid pace, and the bus was sliding a bit when it braked...\n
Rescuers aid ill skiers
\n(Aspen Times © 12/19/2011) (Registration Required)\n
PITKIN COUNTY — Authorities were summoned to the upper Fryingpan Valley Sunday to aid two ill skiers near the Betty Bear Hut.\n\nThe Pitkin County Sheriff's Office was notified of the need for a possible rescue at about 3 p.m. after two members of a 16-member party of skiers who were staying at the hut skied down to seek help. They contacted personnel at the Thomasville Fire Station.\n\nThe hut ...\n
Rescuers aid ill skiers in Fryingpan Valley
\n(Denver Post © 12/19/2011)
PITKIN COUNTY — Authorities were summoned to the upper Fryingpan Valley Sunday to aid two ill skiers near the Betty Bear Hut. \n\n\nThe Pitkin County Sheriff's Office was notified of the need for a possible rescue at about 3 p.m. after two members of a 16-member pa");
document.write("rty of skiers who were staying at the hut skied down to seek help. They contacted personnel at the Thomasville Fire Station. \n\n\nThe ...\n
Aspen's Dancing Bear has a buyer
\n(Aspen Times © 12/17/2011) (Registration Required)\n
ASPEN — The Dancing Bear upscale fra");
document.write("ctional-ownership development in Aspen has endured receivership, bankruptcy and foreclosure proceedings. Now it's under contract to change ownership.\n\nGerman bank West LB, which injected $53 million into the project in 2006 and foreclosed on the property in July, has found a buyer, a person close to the deal said Thursday.\n\n“There's clearly a buyer, ...\n
Dancing Bear has a buyer
\n(Aspen Times © 12/16/2011) (Registration Required)\n
ASPEN — The Dancing Bear upscale fractional-ownership development has endured receivership, bankruptcy and foreclosure proceedings. Now it's under contract to change ownership.\n\nGerman bank West LB, which injected $53 million into the project in 2006 and foreclosed on the property in July, has found a buyer, a person close to the deal said Thursday.\n\n“There's clearly a buyer, and they'...\n
X Games negotiations arrive at critical phase
\n(Aspen Daily News © 12/14/2011)
In what appears to be 11th hour negotiations to keep the Winter X Games in Aspen, the community likely will be asked to buck up more support for the event.\n\nJohn Rigney, Aspen Skiing Co. vice president for events, met with Aspen C");
document.write("ity Council on Monday night in a closed-door executive session to discuss strategy in negotiating a new contract with ESPN.\n\nOfficials are trying to convince ESPN to keep...\n
Telluride makes 2012 Pro Cycling Tour
\n(Telluride Daily Planet © 12/09/2011)
Telluride will be on the first leg of");
document.write(" massive cycling event\n By Katie Klingsporn \nEditor\n Published: Thursday, December 8, 2011 7:40 PM CST\n \n\n\n Telluride has landed a spot on the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Tour, race officials announced late on Thursday.The seven-day stage race, which is scheduled to run from Aug. 20-26 next summer, is expected to provide the community with a huge injectio...\n
Aspen airport landing fees going up
\n(Aspen Times © 12/08/2011) (Registration Required)\n
Landing fees at the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport will go up next year, in part to cover increased costs associated with its newly lengthened runway.\n\nThe fees, charged per 1,000 pounds of aircraft weight, will go up nearly 10 percent for commercial airlines and 13.3 percent for private aircraft from elsewhere. Locally based private aircraft aren't charged a landing fee.\n\nThe landing fee for a CRJ-7...\n
Bear activity is bruin
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Editorial: Naming peak would be fitting tribute
\n(Aspen Times © 07/15/2011) (Registration Required)\n
It's difficult to understand why some people are irked over an effort to name the eastern peak of Mount Sopris after John Denver, arguably the most famous adopted son of Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley.\n\nNot that the peak should be named after the man because of his celebrity. John Denver was a tireless supporter of environmental causes; for evidence, look at the lengthy list of achievements by");
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Naming peak would be fitting tribute
\n(Aspen Times © 07/15/2011) (Registration Required)\n
It's difficult to understand why some people are irked over an effort to name the eastern peak of Mount Sopris after John Denver, arguably the most famous adopted son o");
document.write("f Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley.\n\nNot that the peak should be named after the man because of his celebrity. John Denver was a tireless supporter of environmental causes; for evidence, look at the lengthy list of achievements by ...\n
Travel plan appeals getting attention from Forest Service
\n(Aspen");
document.write(" Times © 07/13/2011) (Registration Required)\n
ASPEN — A special-use permit could be the solution that allows snowmobile use on the back side of Aspen Mountain by private citizens who want to ski there, according to a U.S. Forest Service official.\n\nScott Fitzwilliams, White River National Forest supervisor, discussed the potential disposition of several appeals to the Travel Management Plan for the national forest with Pitkin County comm...\n
The Local Buzz …
\n(Colorado Energy News © 07/08/2011)
On Thursday, the agency released an environmental assessment of the proposal, as well as a geologic and engineering report and maximum economic recovery report on how the lease would affect Northwest Colorado.\n\n\nThe mine will operate as Sage Creek Mine, which could gradually replace Twentymile?s Foidel Creek Mine.\n\n\nWhile the company w");
document.write("ill still mine private and state coal, the proposed 400 acr...\n
DURANGO ?The Colorado Division of Wildlife is starting a five-year research project in the Durango area to learn more about the local black bear population. This is the first study of its kind in sout
\n(Unknown © 07/08/2011)
Bank repossesses the Dancing Bear
\n(Aspen Daily News © 07/07/2011)
Not a single bidder showed up to the Dancing Bear foreclosure auction Wednesday morning, and as a result, the bank repossessed the unfinished luxury downtown fractional-ownership project.\n\nThe sale, on the front s");
document.write("teps of the Pitkin County Courthouse, attracted a crowd of around 30 curious onlookers, but they went home without seeing any action.\n\nThe minimum bid submitted by German bank West LB, th...\n
Aspen slowly climbing out of the downward trend
\n(Aspen Daily News © 07/04/2011)
Let?s take a bri");
document.write("ef look at the world economy. Like it or not, we are affected by the larger world. The unemployment rate in the U.S. dropped barely below 9 percent for the first time since the end of 2008 ? a lower but still disturbingly high rate. \n\nThe global economy slows with uncertainty in the Middle East and North Africa, the European debt crisis and Japan?s natural disaster and nuclear powe...\n
Foreclosure sale scheduled for Dancing Bear project
\n(Aspen Daily News © 06/30/2011)
Aspen?s half-finished Dancing Bear project is scheduled to be sold in a foreclosure auction on the courthouse steps next week, but the developer behind the luxury fractional residence club filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking a judge to stop the sale");
document.write(".\n\nTom DiVenere?s DB Capital Holdings and related companies in a 50-page complaint accuse the bank West LB, the project?s primary lender, of bad faith and...\n
Aspen — a sink or source for bears?
\n(Snowmass Village Sun © 06/19/2011)
ASPEN — A five-year study of black bears in t");
document.write("he Aspen area wrapped up this month with the retrieval of GPS collars from hibernating sows and the collection of data that may yield new information about urban bear populations.\n\nThe Roaring Fork Urban Bear Ecology Study had been tracking scores of bruins in the Aspen area since 2005. Bears were fitted with collars in order to track their moveme...\n
Pitkin County mulls appeal of Forest Service travel management
\n(Snowmass Village Sun © 06/19/2011)
ASPEN — An appeal to the U.S. Forest Service's long-awaited Travel Management Plan for the White River National Forest may be in order on a couple of issues, Pitkin County commissioners agreed Tuesday.\n\nIn addition, local backcountry group Powder to the People is contemplating an appeal of the plan with regard to public snowmobile access on Richmond Ridge.\n\nThe county's objections to the man...\n
Real Estate Transactions Recorded: May 24-June 6, 2011
\n(Aspen Daily News © 06/13/2011)
Grantor: Ritz Carlton Develpment Company Inc.\n\nGrantee: Rockpile LLC, Orlando, Fla.\n\nProperty: Aspen Highlands condo, unit 2304, fixed weeks 22, 35, 48 and floating week\n\nCost: $62,000\n\nGrantor: Regents of the University of Colorad");
document.write("o and University of Colorado Regents\n\nGrantee: Jammb LLC, Aspen\n\nProperty: City of Aspen lot 63\n\nCost: $13.8 million\n\nGrantor: Marilyn R. Marks\n\nGrantee: LRG Property Tr...\n
Pitkin County mulls appeal of Forest Service travel management
\n(Snowmass Village Sun © 06/13/2011)
ASPEN — A");
document.write("n appeal to the U.S. Forest Service's long-awaited Travel Management Plan for the White River National Forest may be in order on a couple of issues, Pitkin County commissioners agreed Tuesday.\n\nIn addition, local backcountry group Powder to the People is contemplating an appeal of the plan with regard to public snowmobile access on Richmond Ridge.\n\nThe county's objections to the man...\n
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document.write("font style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">County likely to appeal USFS travel plan
\n(Aspen Daily News © 06/08/2011)
Pitkin County officials are preparing to file an appeal of the federal travel management plan for the White River National Forest, citing concerns including snowmobile access to forest land from county roads.\n\nThe U.S. Forest Service released its long-awaited management plan in May, after seven years of research and outreach to the public and interest groups including the ski industry, environment...\n
Pitkin County mulls appeal of Forest Service travel management
\n(Aspen Times © 06/08/2011) (Registration Required)\n
ASPEN — An appeal to the U.S. Forest Service's long-awaited Travel Management Plan for the White River National Forest may be in order on a couple of issues, Pitk");
document.write("in County commissioners agreed Tuesday.\n\nIn addition, local backcountry group Powder to the People is contemplating an appeal of the plan with regard to public snowmobile access on Richmond Ridge.\n\nThe county's objections to the man...\n
Five Aspen-area sales over $10 million in May
\n(Aspen Times ©");
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ASPEN — The month of May saw five real-estate sales in excess of $10 million in Pitkin County, crowned by the purchase of an Owl Creek Ranch subdivision property for $20.5 million.\n\nKnown as Black Bear Ranch, the 77-acre property, including a 12,500-square-foot house, was not listed when it was acquired May 31 by Antony Ressler of Encino, Calif.\n\nRessler has a career in finance, and is the c...\n
NEWS BRIEFS
\n(Aspen Daily News © 06/02/2011)
Fires bring haze to Aspen\n\nHaze that clouded Aspen skies Wednesday came from two wildfires located near the central Colorado-New Mexico boarder, according to officials.\n\nThe Bear fire in near Trinidad, Colo. had burned a total of about 5,010 acres in both states by Wednesday morning, and was about 15 percent contained, according to the Rocky Mountain Area Coordinat");
document.write("ion Center (RMACC), a federal wil...\n
Aspen pet owners step forward, warn of coyote problem
\n(Unknown © 06/01/2011)
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Aspen — a sink or source for bears?
\n(Snowmass Village Sun © 05/14/2011)
ASPEN — A five-year study of black bears in the Aspen area wrapped up this month with the retrieval of GPS collars from hibernating sows and the collection of data that may yield new information about urban bear populations.\n\nThe Roaring Fork Urban Bear Ecology Study had been tracking scores of bruins in the Aspen area since 2005. Bears were fitted with collars in or");
document.write("der to track their moveme...\n
DOW: bears emerging early
\n(Snowmass Village Sun © 05/14/2011)
ASPEN — The mild weather over the first half of March is starting to coax drowsy bears out of hibernation. Wildlife officials want to make sure the bruins aren't drawn to trash containers in");
document.write(" Roaring Fork Valley towns.\n\nKevin Wright, a longtime officer in the Aspen area for the Colorado Division of Wildlife, urged residents to get back into their bear-friendly habits now rather than waiting u...\n
Colorado House gives initial OK to flexible bear hunt
\n(Aspen Times © 05/05/2011)
DENVER — Colorado wildlife officials would have the flexibility to expand bear hunting dates to manage the animals' growing population under a proposal that got preliminary approval Wednesday from House legislators.\n\nRepublican lawmakers sponsoring the legislation argued the measure is necessary because the bears' booming population has raised safety concerns since the predators are interact...\n
Bear season is upon us
\n(Unknown © 04/19/2011)
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Be bear aware this spring
\n(Frisco Summit Daily News © 04/05/2011)
Aspen — a sink or source for bears?
\n(Aspen Times © 04/03/2011) (Registration Required)\n
A five-year study of black bears in the Aspen area wrapped up this month with the retrieval of GPS collars from hibernating sows and the collection of data that may yield new information about urban bear populations.\n\nThe Roaring Fork Urban Bear Ecology Study had been tracking scores of bruins in the Aspen area since 2005. Bears were fitted with collars in orde");
document.write("r to track their movements and analyz...\n
DOW: bears emerging early
\n(Aspen Times © 03/17/2011) (Registration Required)\n
The mild weather over the first half of March is starting to coax drowsy bears out of hibernation. Wildlife officials want to make sure the bru");
document.write("ins aren't drawn to trash containers in Roaring Fork Valley towns.\n\nKevin Wright, a longtime officer in the Aspen area for the Colorado Division of Wildlife, urged residents to get back into their bear-friendly habits now rather than waiting until later in ...\n
Bear incidents increase
\n(Cortez Journal");
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By Dale Rodebaugh\nDurango Herald Staff Writer\n\nDURANGO - Bear season doesn't end for Bryan Peterson when the last cub is tucked away for winter, but only after he's compiled statistics for the year, which he did this week.\n\nIn 2010, La Plata County residents reported 1,162 bear incidents, compared with 616 in 2009, said Peterson, of Bear Smart Durango. An incident can be a simple sighting, a bear ...\n
Aspen bear left behind by Schwarzenegger
\n(Aspen Daily News © 12/25/2010)
When California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger came to Aspen in March 2009, he bought an 800-pound bronze statute of a grizzly bear from Royal Street Fine Art, shipped it to Sacramento, and had it placed outside his office door.\n\nThe grizzly bear, a symbol of California?s now extinct state animal, became popular with visiting school children. So many kids would touch the bear it ");
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Bear incidents increase
\n(Cortez Journal © 12/25/2010)
By Dale Rodebaugh\nDurango Herald Staff Writer\n\nDURANGO - Bear season doesn't end for Bryan Peterson when the last cub is tucked away for winter, but only after he's compiled statistics for the year, which he did");
document.write(" this week.\n\nIn 2010, La Plata County residents reported 1,162 bear incidents, compared with 616 in 2009, said Peterson, of Bear Smart Durango. An incident can be a simple sighting, a bear ...\n
Hibernation? No, procrastination
\n(Aspen Times © 12/15/2010) (Registration Requi");
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ASPEN — Tourists aren't the only ones coming out of the woodwork this holiday season. \n\nColorado Division of Wildlife officials say a few black bears have been spotted in residential areas of Pitkin County, foraging for food at a time when most bruins have gone into hibernation.\n\n“Our officer has gotten more calls in the last two weeks than he did all summer,” said DOW spokesman ...\n
Wild Colorado: 2010 was bear-y good for bruins around Aspen
\n(Frisco Summit Daily News © 11/13/2010)
ASPEN — The number of bears euthanized by state wildlife officers in Pitkin County dropped from 20 in 2009 to two this year while the number of relocated bruins fell from 33 last year to just one, according to a preliminary report by the Colorado Division of Wildlife.\n\nMeanwhile bear complaints made to the Aspen Police Department plummeted in 2010. “Wha");
document.write("t a difference in a year,” ...\n
Bears: It's Been A Berry, Berry Good Year
\n(KMGH ABC 7 Denver © 11/12/2010)
ASPEN, Colo. -- The Aspen area had a lot fewer bear problems this year than last, and officials say abundant natural food is the main reason.\n\n The Aspen Times reports that ");
document.write("two problem bears were killed by state wildlife officers this in Pitkin County this year, compared with 20 last year. Only one bear had to be relocated, compared with 33 last year.\n\n Aspen police say that as of Tuesday, the...\n
2010 was bear-y good for bruins around Aspen
\n(Aspen Times © 11/11/");
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ASPEN — The number of bears euthanized by state wildlife officers in Pitkin County dropped from 20 in 2009 to two this year while the number of relocated bruins fell from 33 last year to just one, according to a preliminary report by the Colorado Division of Wildlife.\n\nMeanwhile bear complaints made to the Aspen Police Department plummeted in 2010. “What a difference in a year,” ...\n
2010 was very quiet year for bruins around Aspen
\n(Glenwood Springs Post Independent © 11/11/2010) (Registration Required)\n
The number of bears euthanized by state wildlife officers in Pitkin County dropped from 20 in 2009 to two this year while the number of relocated bruins fell from 33 last year to just one, according to a preliminary report by the Colorado Division of Wildlife.\n\nMeanwhile");
document.write(" the “bear complaints” made to the Aspen Police Department plummeted in 2010. “What a difference in a year,R...\n
Saving the bears
\n(Aspen Daily News © 11/05/2010)
Editor:\n\nAlthough bears haven?t been a problem around Aspen and Snowmass this summer, the PSS Wildlife Fo");
document.write("undation is feeding nine hungry, orphaned bear cubs. Three of the cubs? moms had to be ?put down? while the other moms were killed by vehicles, died without explanation, or just abandoned their babies.\n\nThree cubs came in so underweight that they will stay with the Foundation through the winter...\n
Bear encounters down as");
document.write(" warm season nears the end
\n(Aspen Daily News © 10/02/2010)
As the Aspen leaves change from green to gold and night temperatures dip into the 30s, this year?s bear season is wrapping up with little human conflict over the last several months. \n\n?It?s been a very quiet season,? said Dan Glidden, wildlife enforcement officer for the Aspen Police Department.\n\nOverall, the APD has received fewer calls about bears and only one mischievous bear on Meadowood Driv...\n
More bear hunting licenses issued in Aspen area
\n(Denver Post © 09/28/2010)
There were 405 additional bear licenses available this fall for the area that includes Aspen as state wildlife officials try to use hunting as a way to manage the bruin population. \n\n\nThe Colorado Division of Wildlife made 1,035 bear licenses available, compared to 630 last year, within a \"bear analysis unit\" tha");
document.write("t stretches from north of Vail, west to Glenwood Springs and south to Aspen, according...\n
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