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Wilderness Workshop History

2023-03-02T23:20:00-07:00

1967     Aspen Wilderness Workshop Founded 1975     Maroon Valley Bus Service - Lobbied for the service to limit private vehicles in the Maroon Valley and provided the first interpretive guides on buses. 1977     Hunter Creek Diversion - Gathered 2,700 signatures to stop road-building for tunnel project, preserving wilderness eligibility. 1979     Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness - A 10-year campaign culminated in the permanent protection of this 82,000-acre area. 1980    Maroon Bells-Snowmass, Collegiate Peaks & Raggeds - Led the local campaign to more than double the size of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass and to establish two new wilderness areas – over 330,000 [...]

Wilderness Workshop History2023-03-02T23:20:00-07:00

Business Spotlight: Marble Distilling Co.

2023-04-02T15:03:21-06:00

From our 2022 Annual Report. Learn more about ways to support Wilderness Workshop by reaching out to Philanthropy Director Emily Kay. The tagline at Marble Distilling Co. is “the Most Sustainable Distillery on the Planet”, but we’d propose a change: “The Most Sustainable - and easiest to work with - Distillery on the Planet!” Located on Main Street in Carbondale, Marble has been a fabulous event venue, a financial supporter, Wild Feast sponsor, and even created a specialty cocktail to support our work called the Crystal River Cosmo! If you’re not familiar, Marble Distilling Co. is a [...]

Business Spotlight: Marble Distilling Co.2023-04-02T15:03:21-06:00

Donor Spotlight: Chelsea Congdon

2023-04-02T14:45:47-06:00

From our 2022 Annual Report. Learn more about ways to support Wilderness Workshop by reaching out to Philanthropy Director Emily Kay. We sat down with Chelsea - a donor for nearly 20 years and a co-host of our annual benefit, Wild Feast - to learn more about why she so passionately supports our work. Tell us about your connection to Wilderness Workshop. I grew up in the Roaring Fork Valley and it’s where I learned to read topo maps, get lost and found, feel at home, and be in love with wild places. In the early 2000s, [...]

Donor Spotlight: Chelsea Congdon2023-04-02T14:45:47-06:00

New planning efforts underway for the Colorado River Valley and the Piceance Basin

2023-04-06T20:22:49-06:00

Back in 2015, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized the Colorado River Valley and Grand Junction Resource Management Plans, dictating how nearly 2 million acres of public lands and the minerals beneath them in Western Colorado would be managed. The BLM prioritized oil and gas over all other uses and the plan opened 80% of the planning area (1.5 million acres) to oil and gas leasing and development. As a result of lawsuits filed by Wilderness Workshop and our conservation partners in 2016 and 2019 - challenging the BLM’s failure to analyze the climate impacts of [...]

New planning efforts underway for the Colorado River Valley and the Piceance Basin2023-04-06T20:22:49-06:00

Protecting the North Fork Valley & Gunnison National Forest

2023-04-06T20:24:39-06:00

Surrounded by public lands - including Wilderness Areas, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, and the Gunnison National Forest - the North Fork Valley is unlike anywhere else in Colorado and even the world. It contains the largest concentration of organic, sustainable growers in the state and is home to the West Elk American Viticultural Area, one of the highest wine-growing regions in the world. Though wildlife, agriculture, and the local economy depend on intact and thriving ecosystems on these public lands, substantial threats - primarily from oil and gas development - remain. 2022 saw [...]

Protecting the North Fork Valley & Gunnison National Forest2023-04-06T20:24:39-06:00

Years of hard work culminating in cancellation of the East Willow Leases

2023-04-06T20:26:35-06:00

Filled with verdant aspen forests, beaver streams, and abundant wildlife, the Willow Creek area straddles portions of Pitkin and Mesa counties and includes three roadless areas originally prioritized for protection by the Thompson Divide Coalition. Despite the area’s rich ecology, 6 oil and gas leases covering more than 8,600 acres were issued in 1996. Recognizing the threat and looking for opportunities to protect this place, in 2008 we started filing Freedom of Information Act requests to learn everything we could about why the 12-year-old leases hadn’t expired. Oil and gas leases are issued for 10-year terms and are [...]

Years of hard work culminating in cancellation of the East Willow Leases2023-04-06T20:26:35-06:00

Colorado Wildlands Project: Dolores to Dinosaur and BLM wildlands in between

2023-04-06T20:27:41-06:00

The Colorado Wildlands Project is now two years old! Created in strategic partnership with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), the Wildlands Project has a unique focus on conservation opportunities for wildlands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Western Colorado and works towards their protection. Highlights of the Wildlands Project work in 2022 include: Inventoried and identified wilderness-quality public lands with substantial cultural and historic resources deserving of permanent protection in the Dolores River Canyon Country. Built relationships with key stakeholders and agency staff in the Greater Dinosaur landscape - located in the [...]

Colorado Wildlands Project: Dolores to Dinosaur and BLM wildlands in between2023-04-06T20:27:41-06:00

Defiende Nuestra Tierra Connects community to conservation

2023-04-06T20:27:49-06:00

Our Defiende Nuestra Tierra (Defend Our Land) program - focused on engaging the Latinx community in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River Valleys - continues to advocate for equitable and just public land conservation and management while building new partnerships with nonprofits, municipalities, and federal agencies. This important - but often behind-the-scenes - work of the Defiende program includes everything from making sure the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) provide Spanish translation (both of materials and in public meetings) to ensuring tailored outreach to Latinx residents was a key component of the newly formed Roaring Fork [...]

Defiende Nuestra Tierra Connects community to conservation2023-04-06T20:27:49-06:00

20 years of protection in the works for the Thompson Divide

2023-04-06T20:28:04-06:00

In 2009, an Aspen Times headline - “Conservationists, cowboys team to oppose gas leases near Carbondale” - announced the formation of a new group: the Thompson Divide Coalition (TDC). Wilderness Workshop was a founding member and ever since we’ve played a critical role in the efforts to permanently protect some of Colorado’s most spectacular wildlands from oil and gas development. Together, we’ve made the Divide a landscape known far beyond Colorado and had some major wins along the way: cancellation of 25 illegal leases in the heart of the Divide; adoption of an Oil and Gas Plan [...]

20 years of protection in the works for the Thompson Divide2023-04-06T20:28:04-06:00

President Biden designates the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument

2023-04-06T20:28:18-06:00

Long-time supporters might remember when we first started inventorying public lands across the White River National Forest for congressional protection. The dramatic peaks and lakes of the Tenmile Range were some of the most compelling and were included in the Hidden Gems Citizens Wilderness Proposal. Through years of careful work with communities we succeeded in getting these lands - along with 30,000 acres surrounding Camp Hale (where the 10th Mt. Division trained during WW II) - included as cornerstones of the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy (CORE) Act. Recognizing the outstanding local support, in October 2022, President Biden took [...]

President Biden designates the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument2023-04-06T20:28:18-06:00
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