Rachel Gabel
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- Sep 28, 2026
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Board of Commissioners approves Chalk Bluffs project | Rachel Gabel (opens the original)
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The Weld County Board of Commissioners heard a land use case to approve the Chalk Bluffs Wind Energy Facility land use application. Ultimately, the project passed 3-2 after seven hours of public testimony. The wind and solar project is located near the Chalk Bluffs in northern Weld County on private property. It includes about 79 turbines ranging in height from 499 feet to 596 feet located across 16,000 acres and 2,293 acres of solar panels. The projected local long-term earnings are $3.8 millio
Chaotic meeting began with attempt to squelch public comment | Rachel Gabel (opens the original)
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When Attorney General Phil Weiser takes the Governor’s office in January, he must immediately address the chaos of the latest round of appointees to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission to assure stakeholders that he’s willing to put pressure on the bleeding wound. The keys to the kingdom have fallen into the wrong hands and Weiser needs to change the lock. The latest Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting began with five commissioners- Reading, Maguire, Bilyeau, Niemiec and Tutcht
Private property rights challenge rural Colorado communities | Rachel Gabel (opens the original)
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If there were ever a topic that I believe deeply in, it’s private property rights. If there were ever a topic that leaves me in a moral conundrum more often than not, it’s private property rights. The northern portion of Weld County is where towns like Grover and Hereford are hunkered down against the wind. It’s an area rich in history, habitat and resources. It’s big country marked by the Pawnee Buttes and the Chalk Bluffs and miles and miles of barbed wire. It’s not country for the weak. Wind
Livestock grazing regulations need flexible updates | Rachel Gabel (opens the original)
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The Bureau of Land Management last updated their livestock grazing regulations the year I graduated from high school. I am 49. Assessing rangeland health can’t be done once and not revisited. This year is a prime example that managers must be able to make decisions not just year by year, but week by week. This summer, we have managed our pastures and our cattle more than ever before because the dry conditions have necessitated it. We’ve rotated pastures more frequently but if it’s not raining, t
Farmers and ranchers win on NIETC cancellation | Rachel Gabel (opens the original)
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The Department of Energy rolled into Lamar, Colo., last week and Office of Electricity Assistant Secretary Katie Jereza stood in her neat, green suit in front of a room filled with farmers and ranchers and landowners. The crowd was filled with straw cowboy hats and sweat-stained ball caps and T-shirts and button-down chambray shirts that had seen more than a full day’s work in a summer marked by drought and heat. In Lamar, cows are grazing the weeds on what were alfalfa fields last year. Typical
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