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After successfully opposing various logging projects, This article describes the reorientation of Sheep Mountain Alliance to focus on broad ranging environmental issues, in a way that is community led and community focused.
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This document, published in the Telluride Daily Planet, provides a detailed description of the pros vs. cons of Valley Floor condemnation.
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The LA Times chronicles the fight to save the Valley Floor from development.
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This document outlines the stance of the San Miguel Valley Corporation on the issues of condemnation of the Valley Floor. It emphasizes that the Corporation believes that condemnation of the Valley Floor will ultimately be found to be illegal.
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This is a newspaper article that is most likely from the Telluride Times - Journal published in June 1988. The article discusses the formation of the Sheep Mountain Alliance to protect Sheep Mountain from logging advances. The newly formed environmental group will meet on Lizard Head Pass on Sunday, June 6 at 11am to discuss strategies to oppose logging advances due to environmental concerns.
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This article details the ways in which Telluride Ski Resort proposed to expand resort boundaries, potentially into Prospect Basin. It also discusses wetlands filling and construction by Telski in Mountain Village that was, according to Sheep Mountain Alliance, illegal.
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This is a newspaper article that is most likely from the Telluride Times - Journal published in June 1988. The article discusses Dave Foreman's visit to the newly formed Sheep Mountain Alliance in order to encourage grassroots organizing against logging and road development. Foreman, founder of Earth First!, was a prominent figure in the environmental movement during the 1970s-1990s.
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This article written by Corinne Platt, SMA board member, outlines a strong argument for condemnation of the Telluride Valley Floor.
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This front-page news story announces the first major victory of the environmental group Sheep Mountain Alliance: the prevention of logging on Sheep Mountain for at least ten years. The article discusses the importance of elk habitat in the area and earmarks 3,600 acres for semi-primitive roadless management, 700 acres for wildlife habitat emphasis, and 500 acres for motorized recreation along the highway corridor.