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JeffCo Board of Commissioners denies application for proposed Shadow Mountain bike park

On November 12, the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners denied the Special Use Application for Shadow Mountain Bike Park on ...

BLM issues proposed final plan to improve greater sage grouse protections

On November 8, 2024 the Bureau of Land Management issued its proposed final plan to improve protections for greater sage ...

Comment period for State Wildlife Action Plan open til 11/12

Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s (CPW) comment period for the Colorado State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) remains open through November 12 ...

BLM publishes record of decision for big game resource mgmt plan amendment

On October 23, 2024 the Colorado BLM published its Resource Management Plan Amendment for Big Game Habitat Conservation to create ...

Colorado’s ECMC finalizes rules re cumulative impacts from oil and gas operations

On October 15, 2024 Colorado’s Energy and Carbon Management Commission completed its deliberations to formulate rules that will govern determination ...

Vail Resorts and Town settled lawsuit enabling Town’s acquisition of Booth Heights bighorn sheep severe winter range

Great news that on October 1, 2024 the Vail Town Council unanimously approved a settlement agreement with Vail Resorts that ...

BLM releases its proposed roadmap for solar energy development on public lands

On August 30 BLM issued its Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendments [Solar PEIS] which, ...

CO BLM releases proposed final Big Game Resource Management Plan Amendment

On July 18, 2024 Colorado State Office of the Bureau of Land Management released its proposed final Big Game Resource ...

CPW releases draft Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan

On July 10, CPW released the draft Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan. Here is the link to the press release. ...

Becoming an Outdoors Woman (BOW) Weekend Returns to Colorado!

Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Weekend is Back in Colorado! For the first time since 2019, Colorado Wildlife Federation will host the ...