Public Comment

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...

Taylor Park Vegetation Management Project CoNPS comments PDF

CoNPS Comments on the Taylor Park Vegetation Management Project

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

CoNPS Conservation Committee 2018 Update – August 6, 2018 CoNPS Comment Letters Written: January 27: Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre & Gunnison National Forest (GMUG) - Draft Forest Assessment Identifying and Assessing at-Risk Species. April 6: BLM - Environmental...

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...