canyons of the ancients
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Sen. Michael Bennet introduces bill to protect national monuments
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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…
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Trump’s reduction of national monuments draws impassioned reactions in Colorado
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WASHINGTON – Colorado’s environmentalists and Democratic politicians blasted President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that he would drastically reduce the size of two wilderness national monuments in Utah. Some asked whether federal land in Colorado would be next. “In Colorado, we value our lands because they are part of our fabric and they strengthen local economies,”…
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Feds’ vague plan keeps monuments, including Canyons of the Ancients
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The long-awaited review of national monuments designated by other presidents over the last two decades landed, sort of, Thursday. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he has sent President Trump a plan that would preserve all 27 monuments as federal assets, including Colorado’s Canyons of the Ancients, but some could shrink. The Interior Department didn’t release…
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Staff picks: Colorado Politics’ top 5 stories as Republicans do Denver
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With some of the top Republicans in the nation in the Mile High City this week for the American Legislative Exchange Council and the Western Conservative Summit, news moved swiftly as D.C. came to Denver. Here are the stories that Colorado Politics’ staff thinks had the biggest impact. Agree? Disagree? Comment below. 5. Republican pedaling,…
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Colorado’s Canyons of the Ancients will remain protected
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Colorado’s Canyons of the Ancients National Monument near Cortez is no longer under review and will remain protected, federal officials announced on Friday. The historic cultural landscape was under review per an executive order by President Trump, which could have meant it would have lost its critical monument status. But Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who…
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Generation Latino takes environmental message to Springs, Pueblo
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Generation Latino is taking a message to Colorado Springs and Pueblo: The Latino community has a lot at stake in environmental conservation. Advocates and leaders will gather petition signatures defending public lands in the Springs Thursday morning and meet with the staff of Sen. Cory Gardner at his office in Pueblo Thursday afternoon. The event…
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Bears Ears prompts Bennet to challenge USDA on protecting monument’s forests
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Colorado’s Sen. Michael Bennet wants to know if the U.S. Forest Service is asleep at the switch as the Trump administration aims to trim Bears Ears National Monument. Bennet and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat from Michigan, sent a letter Thursday to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who oversees the Forest Service, asking pointed questions about…
