antiquities act

Sen. Michael Bennet introduces bill to protect national monuments

Feb 2, 2018

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Tom Ramstack

There’s a land rush starting today in Utah that at least one Colorado senator wants to make certain never happens in his state. Miners are staking claims to parcels of land in large swaths of what formerly was about 2 million acres of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, along Colorado’s southwest…
Environmentalists criticize Lamborn for statement about Browns Canyon

Oct 14, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – Environmental advocacy groups are accusing Colorado U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn of making a false statement this week during a congressional hearing on a bill to limit the president’s authority to designate federal land as national monuments. Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, said he never was invited to any meetings to discuss a proposal to designate…
Colorado’s Tipton supports bill to limit national monument designations

Oct 13, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – Colorado U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton on Thursday called for more local input into federal decisions to designate public lands as national monuments. Tipton, R-Cortez, was responding to a bill approved by a congressional committee one day earlier that seeks to revise the Antiquities Act, which empowers the president to preserve federal lands. “Unfortunately,…
Hickenlooper says it’s ‘unlikely’ Colorado national monuments will face Trump-ordered review

Apr 27, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Gov. John Hickenlooper said late Thursday that he’s confident that Colorado’s national monuments won’t be threatened as a result of an executive order signed this week by President Trump instructing his interior secretary to conduct a review. Hickenlooper said he discussed the executive order Wednesday in Washington, D.C., with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and two…
Gardner asks Colorado Farm Bureau for advice; Don Shawcroft has plenty

Jan 12, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner from Yuma sent a letter Tuesday asking Colorado Farm Bureau President Don Shawcroft for advice on congressional priorities that would be good for agriculture and the communities around it. “With various commodity prices dropping close to 20 percent between 2013 and 2015, I would like to know what legislative priorities you…
Schwartz, Tipton spar over public lands

Oct 17, 2016

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David O. Williams Special to Colorado Politics

U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, showing clear signs his race for CD3 has tightened in recent weeks, continues to aggressively call out former state Sen. Gail Schwartz for her comments and ads accusing Tipton of seeking to sell off federally owned public lands. Schwartz charges Tipton has sold out to coal mining and oil and gas companies…
Obama’s environmental legacy: Some 24 national monuments

Aug 16, 2016

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Kevin Freking

The race is on to win President Barack Obama’s attention as he puts some final touches on his environmental legacy. Conservation groups, American Indian tribes and federal lawmakers are urging his administration to preserve millions of acres as national monuments. Such a designation often prevents new drilling and mining on public lands, or the construction…

antiquities act

Sen. Michael Bennet introduces bill to protect national monuments

Environmentalists criticize Lamborn for statement about Browns Canyon

Colorado’s Tipton supports bill to limit national monument designations

Hickenlooper says it’s ‘unlikely’ Colorado national monuments will face Trump-ordered review

Gardner asks Colorado Farm Bureau for advice; Don Shawcroft has plenty

Schwartz, Tipton spar over public lands

Obama’s environmental legacy: Some 24 national monuments