Defiende Nuestra Tierra celebrated the ribbon-cutting and inauguration of the first bilingual signage in the U.S. Forest Service’s Aspen-Sopris Ranger District on Saturday, June 22. Also in June, Defiende Nuestra Tierra, a program of Wilderness Workshop that focuses on engaging the Latino community in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys in public lands advocacy, […]
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Celebremos los 20 años de protección del Thompson Divide
Defiende Por Omar Sarabia Durante los últimos 20 años, la comunidad de Roaring Fork Valley se ha unido para defender su patio trasero de la industria del gas petróleo; y el común denominador de esta unión fue la diversidad. Rancheros, ganaderos, pescadores, cazadores, ciclistas, corredores, observadores de vida silvestre, escaladores y conservacionistas unieron fuerzas y […]
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‘A Great Wild Place’ and the community who stood up for it
By Will RoushWilderness Workshop Executive Director For the past 20 years, our community has dedicated itself to protecting the Thompson Divide. This issue has unified us like no other and inspired activism across generations, backgrounds, and political persuasions. It has shown in no uncertain terms that we have far more in common than we might […]
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Teamwork makes the dream work
As of April 3, after two decades of sweat and tears, the Thompson Divide was guaranteed protection from future mineral leasing — well, at least for the next 20 years.“The Biden-Harris administration today [April 3] took action to finalize protections for the Thompson Divide area in central Colorado, one of the state’s most cherished landscapes, […]
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Naturalist Nights lecture series launches for the New Year
On Jan. 10, Wilderness Workshop, the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) and Roaring Fork Audubon will be kicking off this year’s Naturalist Nights, a free presentation series designed to bring experts and their research to the Valley community. This winter, the collaboration of organizations will bring speakers in from across the state and further […]
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USFS seeks input for Thompson Divide withdrawal proposal
On Dec. 8, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in coordination with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a draft environmental assessment for the Thompson Divide Withdrawal. If approved, this would withdraw nearly 225,000 acres of public land from future mining and oil and gas development for a period of 20 years.The draft assessment is […]
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Corte de árboles de Navidad y Posada navideña bilingüe orientada a incrementar el acceso a tierras públicas
Por Eleanor Bennett Traducción por Dolores Duarte Más de 150 personas se reunieron el sábado en el sendero Babbish Gulch, cerca de Sunlight Mountain, para cortar sus propios árboles de Navidad y celebrarlo con una fiesta navideña latina llamada “Posada”. Este evento bilingüe y bicultural es organizado anualmente por el Distrito de Guardabosques Aspen-Sopris del […]
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Western Slope shows support for conservation in BLM plan
In August of this year, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a draft supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) to be appended to both the Colorado River Valley and Grand Junction resource management plans, affecting usage policy for approximately 2 million acres of land for the next two decades. After a two-month period of public […]
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For the love of fens…
Photos by Chris Cohen Rocky Mountain Science Center Sliding her shovel deep into the spongy earth, ecologist Delia Malone explained that a fen is a special kind of wetland, formed over thousands of years. Prone to freezing and lacking aeration, the decomposition of organic matter in a fen is limited, generating around four centimeters of […]
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Local nonprofits file suit against Forest Service
On March 13, Colorado environmental advocacy groups Wilderness Workshop and Rocky Mountain Wild filed a lawsuit against a Record of Decision made by the National Forest Service (NFS) to pave 2.4 miles of road as part of the Berlaimont Estates Road Improvement Project. The project in question would improve vehicular access to a currently undeveloped […]