The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had issued a Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for UtilityScale Solar Energy Development (Solar PEIS). This programmatic process for western states is intended to identify lands suitable for siting utility-scale solar development. It is important to ascertain areas that will be available for this development that pose fewer conflicts …
Today [April 12] the US Department of the Interior issued its awaited ” Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process Rule.” CWF applauds BLM for today’s oil and gas leasing program reforms because it prioritizes balanced management of public lands – a balance that benefits our rural communities, wildlife habitat they need to survive, recreation, grazing, …
On April 3, 2024, Department of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the 20-year mineral withdrawal for the Thompson Divide area of 221,898 acres of public lands managed by the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in Colorado. CWF and NWF, in conjunction with the local communities, ranchers, hunters, anglers, other conservationists, and recreationists …
On March 14, 2024 the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced the beginning of its planning process to strengthen conservation for this bird and its sagebrush home. The Greater sage-grouse is confronting challenges from habitat loss, climate change and invasive species. Certainly the moment for decisive action is now. We all want this conservation effort, …
On March 15, 2024 Governor Polis, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced a new State Wildlife Area purchased March 8: the 1,860-acre Collard Ranch in South Park. It is in partnership with GOCO and Western Rivers Conservancy. CWF applauds this acquisition as it features an elk migration corridor as well as five miles of great fishing …
Check out the full February 2024 Newsletter here.
The annual 2024 bipartisan Colorado College State of the Rockies Project Conservation in the West Poll surveyed the attitudes of voters on matters below. The Poll was conducted by Lori Weigel and Kathryn Hayne of New Bridge Strategy and by Dave Metz of Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates. The link to the poll results …
On January 18, 2024, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved its Eastern Colorado Resource Management Plan. Here is the BLM press release. BLM’s last plan for this area was issued in 1996. CWF has worked on gaining a plan for South Park since 2012. CWF is gratified that South Park is treated separately within …
On January 16, 2024 Governor Polis, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) announced the regional partnerships that are grant recipients for the fall 2023 round of support funding. The Outdoor Regional Partnerships Initiative began in 2021.The grant awardees are: Eastern Grasslands Coalition (a new regional partnership), NoCoPlaces, Outside 285 in which …
On January 3, 2024 Colorado Governor Polis and the Department of Natural Resources have issued the pollinator report, “Colorado Native Pollinating Insects Health Study: highlighting pollinators’ ecological role in Colorado, protecting our pollinators and natural beauty.” Here is the link to the report that was required by legislation in 2023 SB 22-199, Native Pollinating Insects …
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