Public Comment
November 18, 2019: Powderhorn Fuels Management Project
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...
July 29, 2019: CoNPS Signs on to GMUG Comment Letter
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...
July 2, 2019: CoNPS Comments on the Jacks Gulch Fuels Management Plan
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...
June 20, 2019: CoNPS Comments on the Brown’s Canyon Natl. Monument RMP
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...
May 2, 2019: CoNPS Comments on Taylor Park Logging Proposal
Taylor Park Vegetation Management Project CoNPS comments PDF
CoNPS Comments on Taylor Park Logging Project
CoNPS Comments on the Taylor Park Vegetation Management Project
April 25, 2019: CoNPS Supports the Use of Native Plants in NRCS Revegetation Projects
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...
April 5, 2019: CoNPS Comments on Amendments to the Clean Water Act
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...
11/21/18: CoNPS Comments on Monarch Pass Proposal
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....
CoNPS Comments on BLM December Oil and Gas Sale
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...