Sportsmen's Conservation Project

Sportsmen and conservation groups are singing the praises of a new federal analysis showing protests of proposed oil and gas leases on federal lands are way down in the wake of reforms first implemented by the Interior Department last year.

Colorado sportsmen responded with mixed emotions to the release of a new draft rule for national forest roadless areas in Colorado.

An upcoming Business Round Table event sponsored by the City of Ouray’s Community Development Committee (CDC) features a presentation by the Alpine Triangle Coalition and the Gunnison Gorge Anglers (the Trout Unlimited Chapter representing Ouray), focusing on the economic importance of the Alpine Triangle to local counties and tourism/recreation based businesses. 

Colorado columnist likes what he sees in TU's Triangle plan

The citizen-based initiative to move the Blue Lakes and Alder Creek Wilderness Study Areas out of their 35-year limbo has made its way to Washington.

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"The locals here love their wildlife. In the last 30 years, over $2 million has been spent on habitat restoration projects in what the Wyoming Game and Fish (WGF) calls the South Rock Springs Herd or Wyoming Mule Deer Hunt Area 102."

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Jim Jeffress, backcountry land coordinator for the sportsmen’s conservation project spearheaded by Trout Unlimited, approached the Humboldt County Commission well over a year ago with a proposal to start the governmental process of asking Congress to remove the Wilderness Study Area (WSA) designation for Blue Lakes and Alder Creek.

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The Humboldt County Commission took action by a 5-0 vote Oct. 18 to adopt all 12 recommendations of the Pine Forest Wilderness Study Area (WSA) Working Group. That action comes on the heels of more than a year of effort by the working group to refine and redefine the boundaries of the study area before recommending that Congress officially make the area Wilderness.

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A Colorado group is evoking Theodore Roosevelt's wilderness legacy to organize a sportsmen's political movement focused as much on conservation as on traditional gun rights.