Public Land Mgmt

Coloradans Asked to Weigh In on Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule

2023-04-06T20:25:36-06:00

Public lands supporters welcome new policies to strengthen stewardship for water, open space and recreation in era of climate change  March 30, 2023 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kate Mackay: Director of Communications, The Wilderness Society, 602-571-2603; kate_mackay@tws.org GRAND JUNCTION, CO – Coloradans welcomed today’s announcement of a plan that shifts the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) focus to prioritize recreation, conservation, and protecting public lands and cultural resources. BLM plays a critical role in Colorado, managing over 8.3 million acres of wildlands across the state, areas vitally important to conservation of water, wildlife, and the growing demand for access [...]

Coloradans Asked to Weigh In on Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule2023-04-06T20:25:36-06:00

Wilderness Workshop and Rocky Mountain Wild file litigation to stop the Berlaimont Estates Access Road

2023-04-13T14:58:06-06:00

Paving wild public lands to facilitate sprawl is unacceptable March 14, 2023 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Grant Stevens, Communications Director, grant@wildernessworkshop.org; 319-427-0260 (Cell) & Matthew Sandler, Rocky Mountain Wild Legal Director/Leadership Team, matt@rockymountainwild.org; 303-579-5162 On March 13, 2023, Wilderness Workshop and Rocky Mountain Wild filed a lawsuit in Federal Court in Washington D.C., asking for a ruling overturning the White River National Forest’s Record of Decision for the Berlaimont Estates Road Improvement Project. Issued on Friday, March 10, this decision would facilitate a developer’s plan to build 19 new mansions on 680 acres in the middle of the White River National Forest. “Litigation is always a [...]

Wilderness Workshop and Rocky Mountain Wild file litigation to stop the Berlaimont Estates Access Road2023-04-13T14:58:06-06:00

WW and Community Members on the Berlaimont Estates Road Improvement Project Record of Decision

2023-04-06T20:00:12-06:00

March 10, 2023 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Grant Stevens, Communications Director, grant@wildernessworkshop.org; 319-427-0260 (Cell) Today, the White River National Forest released a signed Record of Decision for the Berlaimont Estates Road Improvement Project, which will approve a damaging paved road through sensitive wildlife habitat. The Project facilitates a developer’s plan to build 19 new mansions on 680 acres in the middle of the White River National Forest. The Decision represents the Forest Service’s approval of a year-round access road, paving wild public lands to facilitate sprawl in the backcountry. “Throughout this process, it has become abundantly clear how unreasonable Berlaimont Estates really [...]

WW and Community Members on the Berlaimont Estates Road Improvement Project Record of Decision2023-04-06T20:00:12-06:00

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

Inventorying and Documenting Public Lands

2023-04-06T20:36:00-06:00

From the Winter 2022 Issue of Wild Works Wilderness Workshop’s early days are filled with stories of our three founders - Dottie, Connie, and Joy - spending time not in stuffy meeting rooms or the halls of Congress (thought they would do this too!) but out on public lands. These three women and an entourage of volunteers spent a tremendous amount of time inventorying and documenting public lands in the White River National Forest, determining what areas were eligible for wilderness, and then literally going back to their kitchen tables and drawing maps that many of us would recognize today! Ensuring we know our [...]

Inventorying and Documenting Public Lands2023-04-06T20:36:00-06:00

An opportunity to protect 1.5 million acres of Colorado’s public lands

2023-04-06T20:35:46-06:00

New plans will require a hard look at climate impacts From the Winter 2022 Issue of Wild Works. This summer, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) started a new planning process for 1.5 million acres of public lands in western Colorado, spanning the Colorado River Valley and Grand Junction Field Offices. The BLM finalized resource management plans for this region in 2015, adopting heavily imbalanced plans that opened 80% of our public lands to oil and gas leasing and development. We challenged those plans in court and as a result of our legal challenges, the BLM is now revisiting [...]

An opportunity to protect 1.5 million acres of Colorado’s public lands2023-04-06T20:35:46-06:00
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