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Schwartz Goes to Bat for the Mountains

I wanted to publicly thank Sen. Gail Schwartz for her recent efforts at the State Capitol. Sen. Schwartz was instrumental in amending a statewide diesel bill that would have weakened the anti-idling ordinances of Aspen, Basalt and Carbondale.

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Camel Crops Up at Ziegler Reservoir Dig Site

Add the Ice Age camel to the growing list of animals that roamed the area around Snowmass Village some 50,000 to 150,000 years ago.

Gail Schwartz (D-Snowmass Village), who is also a member of the town’s Tusk Force, chats with Dr. Kirk Johnson of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science . . .

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Task force will address beetle-kill wood management in Colorado

While the Forest Health Act of 2011 still awaits Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s signature, the wheels are already turning on the act’s goal of removing and using 4 million acres of beetle-kill wood from the state’s forests.

“We need to try to take this issue head-on,” said Colorado State Rep. Don Coram, R-Montrose, who sponsored the act along with state Sen. Gail Schwartz, D-Snowmass, and Rep. Millie Hamner, D-Dillon.

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