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Senate advances Colorado landscape protections

The United States Senate recently took steps to advance two longstanding pieces of legislation aimed at adding new protections against development for beloved landscapes in Southwest Colorad...

DATE: Dec 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Colorado steps forward to protect wetlands

Over the past few years, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued decisions upending decades of well-established environmental protections. Earlier this year, in a case brought by Colorado county g...

DATE: Nov 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Conservation Rule Proposed for BLM

Public lands users have an opportunity over the next two months to offer feedback to the Bureau of Land Management about new rules that would elevate conservation to equal status with the ag...

DATE: Apr 16, 2023 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green

Colorado state lands offer conservation options

Here in Southwest Colorado, we’re blessed by an abundance of public lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Another land holder is the state of Color...

DATE: Mar 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: Thinking Green