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Pike-San Isabel National Forest

In the Pike-San Isabel National Forest, SREP is supporting a collaborative project called Wild Connections by providing science-based data and an overarching landscape-scale perspective. Over the years, implementation of Wild Connections will establish a network of large, roadless core reserves connected by habitat corridors.

Central Colorado Wilderness Coalition is pursuing Congressional designation for key roadless areas in both the Arkansas and South Platte watersheds. They complement other nearby roadless areas and already designated Wilderness. The Upper Arkansas South Platte Project (UASPP) provided inventory and species data, as well as maps, for CCWC.

View the recently released Wild Connections Conservation Plan!

The Pike-San Isabel National Forest recently concluded their first round of public open houses for the forest plan revision. Approximately, 1000 people attended the public open houses during the eight public meetings held in communities around the forest. Approximately half of the attendees were conservation-minded citizens and helped advocate for many of the principles laid out by SREP and the Wild Connections Vision. To learn more about the Wild Connections Conservation Plan and how you can help please click here.
 

Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, Gunnison (GMUG) National Forest

In the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forest (GMUG), SREP is supporting another collaborative project called Mountains to Mesas by providing scientific data as the basis for developing sound scientific management recommendations for critical wildlife linkages, wilderness areas, and compatible-use areas. These data allow our partners "to prioritize advocacy efforts and to make persuasive big-picture arguments to agency decision-makers" says Sandy Shea, Public Lands Director for the High Country Citizen's Alliance.

Mountains to Mesas (M2m) is a plan that protects the heart of our forests, while allowing existing multiple uses to continue. The plan preserves our remaining roadless areas by recommending them as Wilderness. With new Forest Planning regulations now in effect, this is the only land management prescription that really protects the land. The M2m plan supports wildlife habitat, allows animal migration, improves water quality, maintains opportunities for solitude, and reduces the threats to our extremely valuable and increasingly fragile environment. The M2m plan safeguards the wild places, and the wide-open spaces that are a part of each of us who lives and makes a living here in western Colorado.

San Juan National Forest

In the San Juan National Forest, SREP has provided a wealth of information and maps as the foundation for the Citizen Plan for the Wild San Juans, spearheaded by the San Juan Citizens Alliance.

The goals of the Wild San Juans plan are to protect large regions of wild habitat, secure the landscape corridors that interconnect them, return native species like lynx, wolverine, and grizzly bear, and promote sustainable local communities with economies benefiting from Wildlands and wildlife protection and restoration.