On June 17, 2023, Brad Klafehn joined forces with the Arizona and New Mexico Plant Societies to file comments on the Proposed BLM Landscape Rules. In their comments the three societies said that it seemed that the new Conservation Leasing initiative would be...
In reviewing the Project and Documentation (PAD) for this project, Brad Klafehn notes that there is no mention of relevant documents produced by Colorado’s only comprehensive source of information on the status and location of Colorado’s rarest and most threatened...
April 7, 2023 Benjamin Wilson, Senior Project ManagerUS Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District400 Rood Avenue, Room 224Grand Junction, CO 81501-2520 Re: PUBLIC NOTICE: SPK-2014-00518 Clinton Gulch Reservoir Expansion Project Dear Mr. Wilson, Thank you...
2022 was an active year for the Conservation Committee. We contributed four articles for our Conservation Corner column in Aquilegia covering subjects from using the iNaturalist app to fens, alpine ecology and the threats to Parachute Penstemon. We wrote...
On December 2, 2022 these Comments are submitted by the Colorado Native Plant Society to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. We urge the Commission to grant the petition by WildEarth Guardians, 350 Colorado, Womxn from the Mountain, Physicians for Social...
On May 11, 2022 CoNPS was asked by the a land development company called Angel View to evaluate the effects of a water diversion on some fens on their property. Angel View was in a dispute with the town of Twin Lakes, which had diverted a stream, located in Forest...
February 11, 2022 Ms. Ann Timberman – Western Slope Field Superviso Department of the Interior – Fish and Wildlife Service – Western Colorado Field Office|45 West Gunnison Avenue, #240Grand Junction, Colorado 81501 RE: Draft Recovery Plan for Parachute...
On November 7, 2021 CoNPS posted their comments on the Grand Mesa, Uncompagre and Gunnision National Forest Plan. Two of our outstanding members Gay Austin, a former employee of the Bureau of Land Management, and Peggy Lyon who worked for the Colorado Natural...
On February 24, 2021, the Conservation Committee signed on, along with 140 other organizations, to a community letter written by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Defenders of Wildlife, to be sent to House and Senate appropriators to significantly increase...
