South Dakota Earth haters ready for circular firing squad

Watching these four Earth haters pounding the shit out of one another is going to be a blast!

Conservation vital to Mountain West: State of the Rockies

Even red state voters are leery of the Trump Organization's war on the West.

Results from Colorado College’s 16th annual State of the Rockies Project Conservation in the West Poll released today show widespread concern among Western voters about rollbacks of protections for land, water, and wildlife and cuts to funding for public land management.

The poll, which surveyed voters in eight Mountain West states—Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming—found that Western voters across party lines are prioritizing conservation, recreation, and renewables over fossil fuel development heading into this year's midterm elections.

Highlights from the Poll

• ●  84% of Western voters say that the rollback of laws that protect our land, water, and wildlife is a serious problem, a sharp increase from prior years.

• ●  85% of respondents say issues involving public lands, waters, and wildlife are important in deciding whether to support a public official.

• ●  86% of Western voters deem funding cuts to public lands a serious problem, including 76% of Republicans.

• ●  70% of respondents oppose fast-tracking oil, gas and mining projects on national public lands by reducing environmental reviews and local public input.

• ●  72% of Westerners prefer expanding renewable energy over drilling and mining for more fossil fuels.

• ●  76% of Western voters—more Western voters than ever before—say they would prefer their member of Congress to place more emphasis on conservation and recreation on public lands over maximizing energy production.

• ●  74% of Western voters oppose selling some national public lands for oil and gas development.

  ● 91% of Western voters say existing national monument designations should be kept in place.

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