Inside America’s camping crunch

“The popularity of public lands—and especially protected areas—should urge leaders to keep a good thing going by funding our land management systems and designating more protected areas to distribute visitation across different sites and seasons.”

This year, Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Project celebrated the tenth anniversary of its Conservation in the West Poll, which has become a benchmark for assessing Western attitudes towards conservation and public lands throughout the past decade. The poll shows clearly that voters in the West care deeply about clean air and water, wildlife, […]

This episode features highlights from a symposium celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Conservation in the West Poll from the Colorado College State of the Rockies Project. In this episode: Governor Steve Bullock, Montana Senator Tom Udall, New Mexico Lori Weigel, New Bridge Strategy David Metz, FM3 Research Collin O’Mara, National Wildlife Federation Len Necefer, […]

Wildfire is an ever-present reality for many communities in the Western United States. As the West’s fires burn longer and hotter, some politicians have taken to scapegoating the region’s public lands, alleging that wildfire is worse on U.S. public lands than state-owned lands. Their claim, according to a new analysis of wildfire risk in the […]

Last year more than 300 million people visited our national parks; maybe you were one of them. That’s more than the number of people who went to every Disney park, NASCAR race, NBA, NFL, and MLB game combined. There’s no way around it, our national parks are more popular than ever‚Ää—‚Ääand that’s great. In 2015, […]