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Mount Sopris is a twin-summit mountain in the northwestern Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The prominent 12,965-foot (3,952 m) mountain is located in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness of White River National Forest, 6.6 miles (10.7 km) north by northeast (bearing 30°) of the community of Redstone in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.
A gyppo or gypo logger is a logger who runs or works for a small-scale logging operation that is independent from an established sawmill or lumber company. The gyppo system is one of two main patterns of historical organization of logging labor in the Pacific Northwest United States, the other being the "company logger".
By RYAN GORMAN An indigenous tribe living on a remote Pacific Island has defeated a logging company and a former tribal leader trying to take its land, AOL has learned. The improbable victory came ...
The Roaring Fork Valley is part of the larger Roaring Fork Watershed, which includes the Fryingpan and Crystal River valleys. The valley extends for approximately 50 mi (80 km) southeast to northwest from Aspen northwest to Glenwood Springs at the mouth of the Roaring Fork on the Colorado River, ranging in width between 1 and 5 mi (1.6 and 8.0 km).
The American average, for reference, is 3.4 per 100,000, making logging 39 times more dangerous than the average job in the U.S. So what is it that loggers do on a daily basis, and why does it ...
Hammond was born in Saint-Léonard, New Brunswick, Canada on July 22, 1848. [1] He left home at 16 years old to work in the logging camps of Maine and Pennsylvania. He arrived in Montana in 1867, worked as a woodcutter and store clerk, eventually becoming a partner in the mercantile firm of Bonner, Eddy and Company.
California’s eco-bureaucrats halted a wildfire prevention project near the Pacific Palisades to protect an endangered shrub. It’s just the latest clash between fire safety and conservation in ...
Sopris National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado on April 26, 1909, with 655,360 acres (2,652.1 km 2). On August 7, 1920, the entire forest was transferred to Holy Cross National Forest and the name was discontinued.