Good Earth https://www.durangoherald.com/section/news-good-earth/feed/ Stay informed with the latest breaking news, local stories, sports, business, weather, and community events from Durango, Southwest Colorado, and the Four Corners region. Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:15:19 -0600 en-us 30 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/local-food-will-be-focus-of-green-business-roundtable/ Durango Herald file The public is invited. Participants are encouraged to register by 9 a.m. Monday at sanjuancitizens.org/gbr. Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door. For more information, visit sanjuancitizens.org/gbr or email the San Juan Citizens Alliance... Thu, 03 Nov 2016 09:31:46 -0600 6D268AA5-1F0F-4D6C-AECB-C240791948EF https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/durango-bird-club-to-meet-wednesday/ Durango Herald file Lynn Wickersham will present a program about breeding ecology and the status of the gray vireo. She will also give an update about the new book Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas II, which will be available at Maria’s... Wed, 02 Nov 2016 10:30:08 -0600 3DA6681A-CFA5-4473-A743-F6C6BD13212D https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/csu-master-gardener-class-deadline-is-dec-31/ Durango Herald file Students will receive training in tree care, vegetables, soils, native plants, water-wise gardening, pruning and much more. A variety of experts will teach the classes. The 12-week series starts Jan. 26 and will be held at the... Wed, 02 Nov 2016 10:26:56 -0600 5C18B7A6-1C8B-4F1D-A43E-C2186B9C3749 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/durango-nature-studies-offers-geology-workshop/ The Durango Nature Center is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.Courtesy of Durango Nature Studies Program facilitator Brooks Mitchell will discuss the geology of the Four Corners with an emphasis on the San Juan Mountains and the Nacimiento Formation... Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:35:39 -0600 83C577B8-B708-4666-8356-253839F9C8B5 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/plentiful-harvest-for-n-m-pinon-seed-seekers/ Temperamental trees yield best crop since 2005 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:32:20 -0600 E9D26343-5CA0-4D4B-B749-97F35848117A https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/forest-service-to-burn-slash-piles-east-of-bayfield/ The Columbine Ranger District of the Forest Service plans to burn slash piles through this fall and winter in the Sauls Creek, Yellow Jacket and Fossett Gulch areas of the San Juan National Forest.Durango Herald file Pile burning may start... Wed, 05 Oct 2016 07:11:45 -0600 D140CC39-B0A2-42BE-A520-F8178099759C https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/turtle-lake-refuge-to-celebrate-organic-parks/ Turtle Lake Refuge will offer basket weaving at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at Brookside Park.JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald file Events include: Tea and tai chi, 9 a.m. Friday, Organic Pioneer Park.Cacao smoothies, dance party and live music, 3 p.m. Saturday, Folsom Park.Basket... Wed, 05 Oct 2016 07:05:29 -0600 776947F0-36AD-4D1E-A034-1ACE7419AA39 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/researchers-find-abundant-life-in-hawaiis-twilight-zone/ A paper published in the journal PeerJ revealed that some of these ecosystems off the Hawaiian archipelago, particularly an area off Maui, are the most extensive deep-water reefs ever recorded. The ecosystems, found in waters from 100 to 500 feet... Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:32:23 -0600 EE2DBFB5-DC18-43DE-B00A-704521C59CD9 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/goose-poop-creates-messy-problem-for-many-cities-in-u-s/ A gaggle of Canada geese surround a woman along the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass. Communities large and small across the nation are dealing with the proliferation of goose waste that litters parks and can contaminate waterways.Associate Press file “Geese... Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:44:09 -0600 B153AB68-E989-4805-88DB-3A8C73E87673 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/hermosa-creek-project-improves-habitat-for-cutthroat-trout/ The San Juan National Forest hired Durango contractors G2 and AJ Construction to complete 500 feet of streambank stabilization in preparation for reintroduction of native Colorado River cutthroat on a stretch of the creek where non-native fish have been removed.... Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:30:34 -0600 06A00FF7-E3E8-4ED2-8A3C-E6F111C8FC1D https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/san-juan-national-forest-announces-acting-supervisor/ Bacondu1-i-syn In her absence, Russell Bacon, deputy forest supervisor for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests, is serving as the San Juan National Forest’s acting forest supervisor. Bacon was born in Boise, Idaho, and his grandfather and father... Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:24:31 -0600 97573264-859B-4D9E-804F-49EAFED48AA9 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/staff-shortages-hamper-u-s-wildlife-refuges/ Staffing at the nation’s 565 wildlife refuges and related properties shrank nearly 15 percent in the past decade, and more than one-third of those locations don’t have any staff on site, the Washington, D.C.-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said.... Sat, 24 Sep 2016 22:00:00 -0600 F7BE6C2A-F6BA-434C-9F44-A6808DD2B3DD https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/rusty-patched-bumble-bee-recommended-for-endangered-list/ A rusty patched bumble bee collects pollen from a flower in Madison, Wis. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has formally recommended this bumble bee for endangered status after reviewing reports from the Portland, Ore.-based Xerces Society that show the... Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:17:54 -0600 3C0ED6D7-3C45-4F28-B718-D7B31330969E https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/100000-deaths-attributed-to-forest-fire-haze-in-indonesia/ Students ride on a boat on their way to school while haze from wildfires blanket the Musi River in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Indonesian forest fires that choked a swath of Southeast Asia with a smoky haze for weeks in... Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:59:48 -0600 F03DC732-CBE6-4F0A-A837-DE6257BF14BD https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/snow-leopards-return-brings-hope-to-remote-afghan-region/ The leopards range across the snowy mountains of a dozen countries in Central and South Asia, but their numbers had declined in recent decades as hunters sought their spotted pelts and farmers killed them to protect livestock. Now they appear... Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:37:50 -0600 06C1FC66-AB3C-464F-AE94-53F986BFBD93 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/hemp-studies-yield-improved-crop-in-yellow-jacket/ Trials demonstrate real potential, researchers say Wed, 14 Sep 2016 04:56:56 -0600 52FDE0DE-0AFB-4FC3-BACB-BA791837EBC0 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/art-in-nature-workshop-offered-at-durango-nature-center/ Durango Nature Studies will hold an “Art in Nature” workshop at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 24 at the Durango Nature Center.SHAUN STANLEY/Durango Herald file Program facilitator Emily Schaefgen will help people find artistic inspiration from microscopic plant cells to the simplicity... Wed, 14 Sep 2016 04:35:34 -0600 58116184-C95B-44B5-81D1-C1B6A52D7C15 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/durango-nature-studies-auction-includes-neil-young-tickets-lots-more/ Nick Jernigan, far right, watches as his father, Randy Jernigan, left, and volunteers Robin Bumgarner, center, and Colin Vosika install one of 16 bird boxes at the Durango Nature Center in 2015. Durango Nature Studies Annual Online Auction will be... Wed, 14 Sep 2016 04:29:34 -0600 75B31A5F-6E77-46C8-A1F5-A71B89CA20A3 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/beekeepers-growers-get-financially-stung-by-hive-thefts/ Marking the hives and frames with a registered brand is one way to recover stolen hives. Opportunistic “bee rustlers” bolster their honeybee numbers with pilfered hives and frames. Bee hive burglaries are difficult to prevent but there are a number... Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:54:33 -0600 F6F6D232-B5BD-4384-9A88-9C3B21C249F3 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/this-fish-may-be-key-puzzle-piece-to-evolutionary-transition/ More tragic still, every specimen in the “mass death deposit” was a juvenile. So where were their parents? The answer could “rewrite the conquest of land,” said Sophie Sanchez, a paleontologist at the University of Uppsala in Sweden and the... Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:50:54 -0600 BB81A0B0-AE70-49A5-8D04-709D39519891 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/prescribed-burn-in-cat-creek-road-area/ SHAUN STANLEY/Durango Herald file<br><br>Southern Ute Agency Fire Management is planning a prescribed burn Monday through Friday in the Garcia Canyon/Round Meadow area of Archuleta County Road 700 (Cat Creek Road), about 16 miles southwest of Pagosa Springs.du1-i-syn The burn will... Wed, 07 Sep 2016 09:32:42 -0600 23DA15F1-E010-42BC-9525-C61CFAFB873D
Southern Ute Agency Fire Management is planning a prescribed burn Monday through Friday in the Garcia Canyon/Round Meadow area of Archuleta County Road 700 (Cat Creek Road), about 16 miles southwest of Pagosa Springs.du1-i-syn Southern Ute Agency Fire Management is planning a prescribed burn Monday through Friday in the Garcia Canyon/Round Meadow area of Archuleta County Road 700 (Cat Creek Road), about 16 miles southwest of Pagosa Springs. The burn will cover 4,800 acres on Southern Ute Indian Tribe land. The project is weather dependent, so exact dates may vary. The purpose of the burn is to reduce hazardous fuel accumulations and to improve wildlife habitat. Smoke may be visible from Pagosa Springs, Arboles, the U.S. Highway 160 corridor and surrounding areas. During this period, the Columbine District of the U.S. Forest Service is also conducting a prescribed fire in the Fosset Gulch/Yellow Jacket area. Potential smoke impacts will be managed between Bureau of Indian Affairs and Forest Service fire managers. For more information, call the Bureau of Indian Affairs Fire Management Office at 563-4571.]]> https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/national-solar-tour-to-highlight-durango-homes/ The American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Tour will feature a Durango-area solar home tour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 8.Courtesy of J. Lawler Duggan for The Washington Post The tour will showcase solar innovation and is an... Wed, 07 Sep 2016 09:32:28 -0600 448D9695-8A49-44A2-B2D1-33381B602F8A https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/alaskans-live-among-bears-both-real-and-brightly-colored/ Painted bears aim to raise awareness Sat, 03 Sep 2016 22:00:00 -0600 D6AF591B-7AA7-49A2-9D10-F9DB4515F815 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/africas-elephants-rapidly-declining-as-poaching-thrives/ Africa’s savanna elephant population plummeted by about 30 percent from 2007 to 2014 and is declining at about 8 percent a year, said a survey funded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen. “If we can’t save the African elephant,... Thu, 01 Sep 2016 22:58:00 -0600 08D34DD8-D2DC-43F2-9EC0-9BE1C52E46D1 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/rare-whales-recovery-hurt-by-entanglements-scientists-say/ Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Superintendent Malia Chow says this humpback whale is emaciated and covered in whale lice, and at least four sharks were following it. She says these are all indicators of a whale in distress.Ryan... Thu, 01 Sep 2016 21:56:00 -0600 45C4B492-B3DC-4174-A4C4-6039532A7B5F https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/lightning-strike-kills-323-reindeer-in-norway/ More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lightning in central Norway. The Norwegian Environment Agency has released eerie images showing a jumble of reindeer carcasses scattered across a small area on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau.Havard Kjotvedt /Norwegian Environment... Wed, 31 Aug 2016 09:29:48 -0600 87ABD3F2-0911-4F97-9714-9EE86343F2B9 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/in-drought-drones-help-california-farmers-save-every-drop/ Equipped with a state-of-the-art thermal camera, the drone crisscrossed the field, scanning it for cool, soggy patches where a gopher may have chewed through the buried drip irrigation line and caused a leak. In the drought-prone West, where every drop... Mon, 29 Aug 2016 07:52:10 -0600 276399B9-9A9C-48E1-AE6C-1B0E777DE5E3 https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/obama-creates-worlds-largest-marine-protected-area-off-coast-of-hawaii/ G. Umi Kai uses a traditional Hawaiian hook to catch a fish at the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawaii. President Barack Obama expanded the national monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating the world’s largest marine protected area.Keola Lindsey/Office... Fri, 26 Aug 2016 22:06:00 -0600 78FFE2E3-D343-433A-BE52-CC0D689D136D https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/mice-quarantine-themselves-when-sick-a-lesson-for-us-all/ In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, biologist Patricia Lopes describes how wild mice living in an abandoned barn in Switzerland began to avoid their social groups when they felt ill.Associated Press file photo The cloth contained fleas... Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:04:58 -0600 E48EC8AE-E0F9-4420-BDEF-71131ECBF8CF https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/news/california-island-foxes-removed-from-endangered-species-list/ They have rebounded to the point where U.S. wildlife officials recently removed three subspecies of island fox from the roster of federally endangered species, hailing their comeback as the fastest recovery of any mammal listed under the Endangered Species Act.... Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:59:00 -0600 575CB9DE-3FF0-492F-9AA9-D7214B4D3E5C