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Contact: Juli Slivka, Senior Director of Policy and Programs at Wilderness Workshop Date: April 2, 2026 The Trump Administration’s plan to shutter the Forest Service’s national headquarters, regional offices, and research and development facilities is a thinly veiled ploy to decimate our public lands by dismantling the agency that manages our national forests. “Relocating” the Forest Service headquarters to Utah will uproot, demoralize, and ultimately eliminate staff and expertise, as we saw when the first Trump administration employed the same ruthless strategy against the Bureau of Land Management. This sweeping and baseless reorganization will do real damage to our national [...]

Wilderness Workshop joins wildlife advocates in thanking Sen. Bennet and Rep. Neguse for leadership in opposing Berlaimont Estates access road. Contact: Peter Hart, Wilderness Workshop peter@wildernessworkshop.org; 303.475.4915 FOR RELEASE: March 24, 2026 Edwards, Colo. – Today, Wilderness Workshop joined community members from Eagle County, Colo., to support Senator Michael Bennet’s and Representative Joe Neguse’s introduction of legislation to prohibit the Forest Service from opening, improving, authorizing, permitting, or constructing a year-round road on public land located north of Edwards, Colorado. The legislation would also clarify that the existing unpaved, seasonal road provides adequate access to inholdings on the federal land [...]

Wilderness Workshop Statement on BLM E-bike proposal for the Colorado River Valley Field Office Today, the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado River Valley Field Office (BLM CRVFO) announced a proposal to allow motorized mountain bikes, also known as e-bikes or eMTBs, on backcountry trails on our public lands – including many trails that human-powered recreationists such as mountain bikers and hikers have sought to keep non-motorized. This blanket approval would apply without exception to the more than 220 miles of designated mountain biking trails across the BLM field office in Eagle, Garfield, and Pitkin counties. This change threatens wildlife and [...]

Community members welcome Senator Bennet’s action on Berlaimont Estates in Edwards, Colo. Action to prohibit use of federal funding for paved road through National Forest a win for critical wildlife habitat and recreation in Eagle County Contact: Peter Hart, Wilderness Workshop peter@wildernessworkshop.org; 303.475.4915 FOR RELEASE: January 14, 2026 Edwards, Colo. – Today, Wilderness Workshop joined community members from across Eagle County, Colo., to celebrate Senator Michael Bennet’s introduction of an amendment to appropriations legislation preventing the use of federal funding for actions related to the permitting, approval, and/or construction of an access road across U.S. Forest Service lands in the White River National Forest. The proposed [...]

BLM oil and gas lease sales continue to insult Colorado’s communities and the highest value of our public lands Cut-rate lease sales disregard higher uses sustaining wildlife, recreation, and local economies FOR RELEASE: January, 8, 2026 Contact: Richard Mylott, Wilderness Workshop Communications Manager, 970.581.8244 | richard@wildernessworkshop.org DENVER – A series of recent BLM oil and gas lease sales across Colorado, and a rushed “replacement sale” of the same parcels, continue to demonstrate the fiscal and social irresponsibility of the Trump Administration’s effort to cheapen and giveaway public lands to the fossil fuel industry. On December 9, 2025, BLM Colorado held an [...]