WESTERN VOICES: RIFLE

Aaron hosts a live episode in Denver, kicking off CWP’s Keep Parks Public tour. Scott Fitzwilliams, former supervisor of the White River National Forest in Colorado, Kelly Nordini, CEO of Conservation Colorado, and Kara Matsumoto, public lands director at the Conservation Lands Foundation, join us to discuss threats to Colorado’s public lands posed by the […]

Department of the Interior officials attended a community meeting Friday to gather feedback on the proposal to designate Chuckwalla National Monument, signaling that the administration is interested in moving forward with a monument designation. Attendees included BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning and Acting Deputy Interior Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis. An estimated 700 people attended the meeting, and […]

A new report from the Center for Western Priorities, Wilderness Workshop, and the Colorado Wildlands Project finds that rampant speculative leasing of public lands by oil and gas companies has put pristine landscapes at risk across the West.

Now that the dust has settled on the 2014 midterm elections, we can take a step back and look at how public lands and conservation played in two of the West’s most politically important states: Colorado and Montana. These two states tilt between red and blue in statewide elections, and the attachment that their voters […]

After allowing dozens of conservation bills to die, the 112th Congress is the first in seven decades to fail to protect new public land in the United States.