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Wilderness Workshop's Annual Community Party Celebrates 20 Years of Protection for the Thompson Divide For more information contact: Francis Sanzaro, Communications Director at Wilderness Workshop, francis@wildernessworkshop.org, 315.415.7861 May 16, 2023 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CARBONDALE, CO – On June 7th, in Sopris Park, Wilderness Workshop will be hosting its annual Community Party. This year’s party will commemorate the community-driven victory of securing 20 years of protection for the Thompson Divide. The event is free and open to the public. The event will start off with a celebratory “Cattle Drive” parade down Main Street, beginning at the Village Smithy and ending in [...]

Community Celebrates 20 Years of Protections for the Thompson Divide April 3, 2024 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Francis Sanzaro, Communications Director, Wilderness Workshop, francis@wildernessworkshop.org. CARBONDALE, CO – Earlier today, the Department of the Interior announced the finalization of the Thompson Divide Administrative Mineral Withdrawal, which will protect 225,000 acres of public lands in western Colorado from future oil and gas leasing and mining for the next 20 years. The withdrawal is the result of a decade and a half of strong community collaboration — local ranchers, mountain bikers, conservationists and businesses are celebrating this historic win for local public [...]

Colorado Groups Submit Letter Opposing Representative Boebert’s Legislation to Prevent the BLM from Finalizing Management Plans for Western Colorado March 20, 2024- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Contact: Francis Sanzaro, Communications Director, Wilderness Workshop, francis@wildernessworkshop.org. Jim Ramey, Colorado State Director, The Wilderness Society, jim_ramey@tws.org GRAND JUNCTION, CO – Twenty organizations across Colorado have signed a letter in opposition to Rep. Boebert’s H.R. 6547, a bill that seeks to circumvent a court-ordered public process for management of roughly two-million acres of public land in western Colorado. The Bill received a hearing in a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee. The [...]

Settlement parties urge the BLM to protect climate, wildlife with amendment of Trump-era oil, gas plan for SW Colorado January 8, 2023 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Natasha Léger, Citizens for a Healthy Community, 970-399-9700, natasha@chc4you.org Melissa Hornbein, Western Environmental Law Center, 406-708-3058, hornbein@westernlaw.org Peter Hart, Wilderness Workshop, 303-475-4915, peter@wildernessworkshop.org Alli Henderson, Center for Biological Diversity, 970-309-2008, ahenderson@biologicaldiversity.org Delaney Rudy, Western Watersheds Project, 970-648-4241, delaney@westernwatersheds.org Samantha Ruscavage-Barz, WildEarth Guardians, 505-401-4180, sruscavagebarz@wildearthguardians.org Sue Navy, High Country Conservation Advocates, 970-349-5886, suenavy@gmail.org Noah Rott, Sierra Club, 406-214-1990, noah.rott@sierraclub.org January 8, 2024 - Two years in the making, the Bureau of Land Management (the [...]