The Boulder Stand

Happy Birthday, Boldt Decision! Charles Wilkinson puts U.S. v. Washington in the same class as Brown v. Board of Education, although it gets a whole lot less recognition. The legacy lives on.
Former Boulder Stand-er Christi Turner's latest post from High Country News.

The 1974 Boldt ruling, which made Natives co-managers in Pacific Northwest fisheries, then and now. It's still vastly influential, 40 years later. Indian law cases on everything from child custody to natural resource management takes a cue from the Boldt: http://hcne.ws/NLuAfn

Gloria Dickie, contributing reporter for the Stand, reflects on her experience reporting on the ivory crush in Commerce City last week - a potential breakthrough in the fight to end the illegal global trade in elephant tusks.

Covering the Ivory Crush Last week I had the privilege of covering the United States ivory crush in Commerce City, Colo. for the Center for Environmental Journalism and OnEarth. The U.S. has been stockpiling confiscated ivory — from tusks to idols to bangles and bracelets — for over 20 years. Until now, the bulk of this ivo...

Estes Park has just begun to dredge Lake Estes, the reservoir on the edge of town, in order to recover actual parts of Fish Creek Road that washed away in the flood to be used as the base of the repaired roadway. Read more here: http://www.theboulderstand.org/2013/10/02/estes-park-in-the-wake-of-the-flood/

Estes Park in the Wake of the Flood Fish Creek Road runs along the eastern edge of Estes Park, Colorado - or at least it used to. The recent record rainfall of September 2013 flooded Fish Creek proper, washing away entire segments of the roadway that runs alongside it - more than three miles of roadway, according to the Estes Park Tr...