Protecting public lands as a strategy to address climate change, as well as for safeguarding habitat and biodiversity and healthy rivers, is supported by conservation science.
Western Colorado has important public lands—like the Dolores River canyons and in headwaters to the North Fork and Gunnison rivers, that deserve landscape-level visions and forward-looking management. We can protect their unique and irreplaceable qualities into the future and support the rural communities that are privileged to live here.