Denver Post: Ski-area expansions in Colorado and other Western states may please skiers, but they rile environmentalists.
The annual Ski Area Environmental Scorecard -- prepared by an environmental coalition including Denver's Rocky Mountain Wild -- found nearly a third of Western ski areas surveyed in 2012 either expanded terrain or planned to develop new terrain.
The growth in ski-area footprints led the Ski Area Citizens' Coalition to assign a lot of D's, including four for resorts in Colorado. Those...