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The environment desk at Aspen Public Radio covers issues in the Roaring Fork Valley and throughout the state of Colorado including water use and quality, impact of recreation, population growth and oil and gas development. APR’s Environment Reporter is Elizabeth Stewart-Severy.

Environmental panel discusses ‘resistance’

Local environmental watchdog Wilderness Workshop joins forces with the legal non-profit Earthjustice tonight for a discussion about how to safeguard public lands.

The event, titled “Resistance: In the Courts and On the Ground,” features Will Roush and Peter Hart from Wilderness Workshop and Drew Caputo from Earthjustice. Both groups are concerned about the Trump administration’s recent actions to roll back environmental protections.

Roush, whose daily work focuses on conservation issues in the White River National Forest, said this is a chance to hear two approaches to citizen action.

“The two most effective ways to really resist some of these attacks on bedrock environmental protections and public lands is grassroots citizen activism, which is a lot of what we specialize in, and litigation, being in the courts,” Roush said.  

The panel will talk about both local and national concerns regarding public lands and energy development, as well as some recent success stories.

The discussion is Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at the Mountain Chalet in Aspen.

Aspen native Elizabeth Stewart-Severy is excited to be making a return to both the Red Brick, where she attended kindergarten, and the field of journalism. She has spent her entire life playing in the mountains and rivers around Aspen, and is thrilled to be reporting about all things environmental in this special place. She attended the University of Colorado with a Boettcher Scholarship, and graduated as the top student from the School of Journalism in 2006. Her lifelong love of hockey lead to a stint working for the Colorado Avalanche, and she still plays in local leagues and coaches the Aspen Junior Hockey U-19 girls.
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