You wouldn’t eat a Slimehead …

We have been going about this saving endangered or threatened species thing all wrong. David A. Fahrenthold of the Washington Post explains in his article Tastier Names Trouble for Seafood Stocks that numerous varieties of fish are currently on the threatened species list because someone decided to give them a less disgusting name.

With the Obama administration firmly installed in Washington, it’s time for the environmental movement to ask the question first raised in the 1957 20th Century Fox comedy starring Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall: Will success spoil Rock Hunter?

In this office, we are strong supporters of keeping Colorado courts fair and impartial in the face of efforts by politicians like former state Sen. John Andrews to bring the courts under the control of special interests. Since retiring from The Denver Post last year, our director of research and communications, Bob Ewegen, has served as Journalist in Residence for the Colorado Judicial Institute, which fights to keep Colorado courts free from political pressure. CJI also gives annual “Judicial Excellence” awards to honor outstanding judges in Colorado. It has also raised $195,000 to help provide advanced education and training for Colorado judges and judicial department personnel.

On Wednesday, June 17th, 2009, WildEarth Guardians filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court against Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar for failing to develop a recovery plan for two sub-species of jaguarundi. The two sub-species at issue are the Gulf Coast jaguarundi and the Sinaloan Jaguarundi.

Colorado’s water rights are based on the prior appropriation doctrine, which uses a “first in time, first in right” set of rules to determine who has rights to water. Water users who appropriate water first (called Senior users) have a senior right (or priority to water) over those users who appropriate the water at a later date (Junior users). This doctrine came to Colorado during the 1859 Gold Rush and was added to the Colorado Constitution in 1876.