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Dec 04 2023

Take Action: Help Improve the BLM’s Big Game Plan

By Rane Dickerson Lands Protection, Take Action, Wildlife

Please join the San Juan Citizens Alliance in showing our support for BLM’s new public lands rule on Conservation and Landscape Health. The new rule emphasizes the importance of conservation on federal public lands and creates and refines tools to…

Dec 04 2023

PRESS RELEASE: Big Game Migrations, Habitat May Benefit with Draft Colorado Plan

By Rane Dickerson Lands Protection, Press Release, Wildlife No Comments

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) just released its Draft Big Game Resource Management Plan Amendment (plan) which covers 8.3 million surface acres and 4.7 million acres of mineral estate extending to every Colorado BLM Field Office and to every corner of…

Aug 15 2023

ECOFLIGHT: Migration Corridors on Wolf Creek Pass

By sjca Lands Protection, Wildlife, Wolf Creek No Comments

This summer the San Juan Citizens Alliance teamed up with Ecoflight for a flyover of the Southern San Juans. EcoFlight is a nonprofit organization that educates and advocates for the protection of remaining wild lands and wildlife habitat using small aircraft.…

Jun 14 2023

PRESS RELEASE: Lawsuit Targets Timber Sale Threatening Rare Mature Forests, Wildlife in Colorado

By sjca Forest Health, Lands Protection, Press Release, Wildlife 3 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 14, 2023 DOLORES, Colo.— Forest advocates sued the U.S. Forest Service today for violating environmental laws when it approved a nearly 23,000-acre timber sale that would cut large, century-old ponderosa pine trees and threaten wildlife in…

Apr 07 2023

Take Action: Ensure Wolves are Restored to Colorado This Year

By Gary Skiba Take Action, Wildlife

Contact your Colorado State Senator now and urge them to oppose SB-23-256.

Feb 02 2023

Take Action: Comment on Colorado’s Wolf Management Plan

By Rane Dickerson Take Action, Wildlife

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is now taking public comment on their Draft Colorado Wolf Restoration and Management Plan. They are accepting comments until February 22nd, 2023.

Jul 11 2022

Wolf Planning Talking Points

By Gary Skiba Wildlife No Comments

Colorado Parks and Wildlife will be holding a wolf planning meeting this July 27th and 28th in Durango. We need people to turn up and speak against the recreational killing of wolves. THE EVENT: The CPW Wolf Planning Stakeholders Advisory Group (SAG)…

Mar 10 2022

Poor environmental review derails oil and gas leases

By Mark Pearson Durango Herald Column, Oil & Gas, Wildlife No Comments

Last week, a federal court ruled that the Bureau of Land Management failed to follow the law in selling oil and gas leases across Southwest Colorado in two recent auctions. The ruling applies to 14 parcels involving about 10,000 acres…

Jan 27 2022

Take Action: Support Colorado’s Bighorn Sheep

By Gary Skiba Take Action, Wildlife No Comments

Bighorns need our help! Disease from domestic sheep is threatening bighorns in Colorado. We need CPW to help close high risk domestic allotments.

Jan 27 2022

Support Colorado’s Bighorn Sheep

By Gary Skiba Wildlife 3 Comments

We all recognize the iconic value of bighorn sheep in Colorado. As the state mammal, bighorns are one of our most important species. But bighorns in Colorado could and should be doing much better. The single biggest threat and cause of…

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Take Action: Help Improve the BLM’s Big Game Plan

PRESS RELEASE: Big Game Migrations, Habitat May Benefit with Draft Colorado Plan

ECOFLIGHT: Migration Corridors on Wolf Creek Pass

PRESS RELEASE: Lawsuit Targets Timber Sale Threatening Rare Mature Forests, Wildlife in Colorado

Take Action: Ensure Wolves are Restored to Colorado This Year

Take Action: Comment on Colorado’s Wolf Management Plan

Wolf Planning Talking Points

Poor environmental review derails oil and gas leases

Take Action: Support Colorado’s Bighorn Sheep

Support Colorado’s Bighorn Sheep

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