Category: Public Comment

On May 11, 2020 CoNPS commented on the Jefferson County Parks Conservation Plan. https://conps.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Jeffco-Greenprint-Plan.pdf

Here is the CoNPS Conservation Committee 2019 Annual Report of Activities.

On March 9, 2020 CoNPS signed on to a letter to the Council on Environmental Quality regarding the proposed changes to the NEPA regulations.  

CoNPS Conservation Committee made public comment on the Eldorado Canyon State Park Visitor Use Management Plan: Eldorado Canyon Park Comment Eldorado State Park Carex sprengelii locations

On November 18, 2019, CoNPS signed on to a letter written by Matt Reed, Public Lands Director with High Country Conservation Advocates and signed by fourteen other Colorado conservation organizations.  The letter makes comment on the Bureau of Land Management’s plan for fuel reduction in the Powderhorn Wilderness Area. Powderhorn-Scoping-Comments_11.18.19.pdf

The CoNPS Conservation Committee signed on to comments made by the High Country Conservation Advocates and other conservation organizations regarding the Grand Mesa and Uncompagre Revised Forest Plan.  The Committee also submitted our own comments which had a somewhat different focus and can be found on a subsequent post. WDP GMUG_Comments_HCCA et al_Final  

On July 2, 2019, CoNPS commented on the Jacks Gulch Fuels Management Plan in the Canyon Lakes Ranger District.  The Forest Service plans to thin the forest in order to reduce the build-up of fuels that generate forest fires. CoNPS Comments on the project are HERE. A map showing the location of the planning boundaries Read More …

On June 20, 2019 CoNPS signed on to a letter written by the Quiet Use Coalition regarding the Browns Canyon National Monument Resource Management Plan.  The letter was co-signed by the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council, the Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Wild Connections, the Rocky Mountain Recreation Initiative, Rocky Mountain Wild, Central Rocky Mountain Read More …

Taylor Park Vegetation Management Project CoNPS comments PDF

April 25, 2019 Kevin Norton Acting Associate Chief USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250 Re: Docket Number NRCS-2019-0003-0001 The undersigned organizations, representing conservation, wildlife, and agriculture organizations, thank you for the opportunity to weigh in on NRCS conservation practice standards. We write to express our support of incorporating stronger Read More …

On April 5, 2019 CoNPS wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency strongly opposing the removal of wetlands, fens, small headwater streams, and ephemeral/intermittent drainage waters from EPA regulation through the clean water act.  The letter follows below: I am writing this comment as the Chairman of the Conservation Committee of the Colorado Native Read More …

The US Forest Service requested comment on a forest management plan to treat forests on Monarch and Marshall Passes.  Below is the comment which was written for CoNPS by Conservation Committee volunteer Gay Austin and signed by Mo Ewing, Chair of the committee. Monarch_Pass_Proposal Public_Comment

The BLM December 2018 Oil and Gas Lease Sale was totally chaotic.  In August, the BLM offered about 222,000 acres of lands for leasing.  But a federal judge intervened, saying that the BLM didn’t consider the impact on sage grouse habitat.  On October 19, the BLM removed 141,478 acres of sage grouse habitat.  Then on Read More …

On August 31, 2018, Mo Ewing, the Chairman of the CoNPS Conservation Committee wrote a letter to the U.S. Forest Service opposing the granting of access to the developers of the proposed Village at Wolf Creek.  The letter read as follows: Colorado Native Plant Society 4057 Cottonwood Drive, Loveland, CO 80538 Project: Village at Wolf Read More …

On July 1, 2018, CoNPS signed a letter of support for the preservation of South Canyon near Gunnison which is in danger of being developed.  The South Canyon Coalition is in the process of trying to convince the City Council to buy the property to protect it from development. South Canyon Coalition Support Letter  

On June 1, 2018, a team of CoNPS volunteers sent a letter to the Forest Plan Revision team of the Grand Mesa, Uncompagre and Gunnison Nationa Forest Service commenting on scoping process for the Forest Service plan. The comment team included extensive work by Brad Klafehn, Linda Smith, Peggy Lyon, Ann Bensard, Tom Gladem and Read More …

Alaska Wilderness League * Allegheny Defense Project Alpine Lakes Protection Society * Appalachian Voices * Arise for Social Justice Bark * Beaver Valley Preservation Alliance * California Native Plant Society Cascade Forest Conservancy * Cascadia Wildlands Center for Biological Diversity * Center for Sierra Nevada Conservation Cherokee Forest Voices * Christians For The Mountains Climate Read More …

CoNPS joined The Wilderness Society, Defenders of Wildlife, The Center for Biological Diversity, Conservation Northwest, Earthjustice, League of Conservation Voters, National Parks Conservation Association, Sierra Club, Southern Environmental Law Center,  and the Western Environmental Law Center in opposing the Forest Provisions in the Forestry Title (Title VIII) of the Federal Farm Bill (H.R. 2). The Read More …

On April 6, 2018 CoNPS made comment on the BLM September 2018 Oil & Gas Lease Sale, in which some of the oil and gas lease sites bordered Great Sand Dunes National Park. Many thanks to Anne Bensard, Heidi Gerstung and Kristi Gladem for working on this project. CoNPS BLM Sept 2018 Oil & Gas Read More …