Dan Gibbs for Senate - CO

Dan Featured on CBS News 4

Wit new laws taking effect this week, a few of Dan's sponsored bills on high country preservation were put into action as well. Laws to extend the inspection program on Colorado ski are shair lifts, fund wildfire management and and bark beetle mitigation, and a law designed to make it clear what wilderness areas are designated for off-road vehicles and where off-roading is prohibited. CBS News 4 has coverage of the bills. You can find the news article here and watch video of Dan speaking about the bills and CBS' television story on the bills here.

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Dan Appeared on Colorado Matters

Last week Dan was invited to discuss the pine beetle issue on Colorado Public Radio's "Colorado Matters" program. Dan talks about some of the bills he has successfully worked on as well as the challenges still facing Colorado when dealing with this epidemic. You can listen to the entire interview here and visit the Colorado Matters website for more information here.

Dan in the Longmont Times-Call

Dan was featured in an article on the signing into law of various forest-protection bills, several of which Dan co-sponsored. Says the Longmont Times-Call:

Silverthorne Democratic Sen. Dan Gibbs, who sponsored several of those bills, said in a statement that “Colorado’s forests and watersheds are among our most critical resources, and we must do all we can to protect them.”

You can read the entire article, including explanations of Dan's bills, here.

Bill Signings with Governor Ritter

Governor Bill Ritter appeared in Summit County, Colorado yesterday for a number of bill signings, including several of Dan's own bills (Senate Bills 71 and 221, as well as House Bill 1269) . Dan was there, and got to address the importance of this legislation:

"Colorado's forests and watersheds are among our most critical resources and we must do all we can to protect them," said Sen. Dan Gibbs. "It's heartbreaking to see the extent of the devastation in our mountain forests. With this bill, we're tackling this crisis head-on. Removing all that dead timber will greatly reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfires and help protect our forests, our water and our way of life."

You can read more here and here.

CBS News 4 has their television news report avilable to watch here and the Summit Daily News has footage of the bill signings including speeches given by Governor Ritter and Dan here.

Dan in the Vail Daily

Dan was recently featured in the Vail Daily for his work on fighting the bark beetle epidemic. Here's a little of what they said:

Melanie Wong

Vail, CO Colorado

May 23, 2008

EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado — A year ago when Sen. Dan Gibbs told a fellow legislator about how beetles were hurting the pine forests, the legislator thought Gibbs was talking about the legendary rock band.

“We’ve come a long way in the last year as far as understanding,” said Gibbs, laughing. Now the bark beetle infestations that have left many mountain forests brown and dead, have finally caught the attention of Front Range lawmakers and residents, he said.

“It’s exciting for me to see people in Denver like (Sen.) Chris Romer really understand this, even though they don’t look out the window and see what I see in Silverthorne,” Gibbs said.

You can read the entire article here.

Updates from the Trail

Welcome to Dan Gibb's campaign blog. Here you can find updates on Dan in the news, recent and upcoming campaign activities, as well as Dan's thoughts on how the campaign is going! We're walking around in a lot of neigborhoods and meeting a lot of good folks here in District 16, so be sure to keep checking in on how everything is going.