Richard

Representative Neguse’s Local Input Act would restore Western Slope communities’ ability to protect the healthy rivers, wildlife habitat, and wild landscapes we know and love from harmful oil and gas leasing  Existing oil and gas development and fragmentation on the Roan Plateau. Western Colorado’s public lands are more than places on a map. They sustain clean water and healthy rivers, provide critical habitat and migration corridors for wildlife, and encompass wild landscapes that support our communities and way of life. The people who live, work, and recreate in these places understand what is at stake when decisions are made [...]

A historic June 2026 agreement preserves our home river’s free-flowing character, agricultural heritage, and unique ecology  On June 8, 2026, a group of Colorado governments and water districts signed a landmark agreement to protect the Crystal River from dams and out-of-basin water diversions. The milestone achieves one of three potential long-term preservation measures identified by partners working to protect one of the last remaining free-flowing rivers in the West.  Under the agreement, the Colorado River Water Conservation District, Gunnison County, Pitkin County, Town of Marble, and West Divide Water Conservancy District committed to oppose any new on-channel reservoirs on the mainstem of the Crystal River and any trans-basin diversions [...]