Public Comment
March 10, 2025: CoNPS Comments Removal of Ute Ladies’-Tresses from the List of Endangered and Threatened Plants
The Colorado Native Plant Society submitted comments both separately and in joined forces with the Montana and Idaho Native Plant Societies to provide details on the many reasons delisting Spiranthes diluvialis is not warranted at this time. Please click here to read...
June 17, 2023: CoNPS Comments on the BLM Landscape Health Rule
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...
CoNPS Comments on Bears Ears Fuel Reduction Plan
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...
CoNPS Comments on Clinton Gulch Reservoir Expansion
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 Conservation Committee Report
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...
Ozone Effects of Oil & Gas Development – CoNPS Comments
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...
CoNPS Comments on Land Dispute Between Developer and Town of Twin Lakes
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...
CoNPS Comments on Beardtongue Draft Recovery Plan
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...
CoNPS Comments on Grand Mesa, Uncompagre, Gunnison Forest Plan
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...
Funding for the Endangered Species Act
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...