RBC I Permits for cutting Christmas trees on Bureau of Land Management lands within designated areas of the White River Field Office are now on sale.
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Veterans should be paid for travel expenses to VA hospitals
RBC I If there are Rio Blanco County military veterans who do not currently receive travel compensation for trips to Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals or clinics, your county veteran service officers want to know.
Drivers warned about wildlife on area roads
RBC I Get ready, Colorado drivers, wildlife are coming to town. Black bears are transitioning into hibernation, meaning they may be traversing more territory to look for just the right energy source. And deer are also moving down from the mountains. The Colorado Department of Transportation and Colorado State Patrol[Read More…]
BLM resource panel meets Dec. 4
RBC I The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Resource Advisory Council will meet Dec. 4 at the Springhill Suites, 236 Main St. in Grand Junction from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The meeting is open to the public, with public comment periods related to items on the agenda scheduled for[Read More…]
Applications now available from CPW for river outfitters
RBC I The 2015 Colorado Parks and Wildlife River Outfitter license application is now available at cpw.state.co.us/Documents/Boating/RiverOutfitterApplication.pdf.
Winter motor vehicle season begins
RBC | White River National Forest’s winter motor vehicle use season began Sunday and ends May 20.
AGNC disappointed by sage grouse listing
RBC I The Associated Governments of Northwest Colorado (AGNC) issued a statement late last week on behalf of its member governments concerning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) recent decision to list the Gunnison Sage Grouse as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act.
RBC water district meets Dec. 4
RBC | The Rio Blanco Water Conservancy District will meet Tuesday in the Weiss Center Conference Room on the Colorado Northwestern Community College campus in Rangely.
Rangely incident brings warning of fraud for all in Rio Blanco County
RBC I When a telemarketer called Rangely resident René Harden last week, it seemed a little strange. The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) prohibits sales calls before 8 a.m. and after 9 p.m., and this one was made close to 9:30 p.m. The representative, who claimed to[Read More…]
County’s unemployment rate continues to drop, now 2.7%
RBC I The unemployment figures for Rio Blanco continued to drop in October, making it nearly a year since the county has had to report a rise or even steady rate for the jobless.
Uintah Basin faces a tricky problem with oil, gas industry
RBC I On a crisp fall day lined with cottonwoods as yellow-bright as balls of flame, I take a gravel shortcut from Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon toward Vernal, an energy boomtown of some 10,000 souls.
CPW seeks information on elk bulls killed near Dinosaur
RBC I Colorado Parks and Wildlife investigators are asking the public for help in finding the person or persons responsible for killing and abandoning three mature, high-quality bull elk near the town of Dinosaur recently.
