The CWCB is accepting public comments on the draft Colorado Water Plan until May 1st. We want our Western Slope voices to be heard! Governor Hickenlooper and the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) are accepting comments on the draft Colorado Water Plan. This plan represents the strategies, [...]
April 2015 - Tell the BLM to consider a conservation-minded alternative! The Bull Mountain Unit Master Development Plan (MDP) is a proposal by SG Interests to drill up to 146 new gas wells near McClure Pass. The proposed development spans nearly 20,000 acres in some of Colorado's best wildlife [...]
April 7, 2015 – Local community organizations band together to lead Earth Day events Each year, Earth Day — April 22 — marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. This year Earth Day organizers anticipate that over a [...]
April 3, 2015 – Colorado’s largest homegrown film festival is traveling to the North Fork Valley. On April 23 and 24, the Paradise Theater and Western Slope Conservation Center are partnering to present Mountainfilm on Tour, a collection of independent films focusing on the natural [...]
February 26, 2015 – Presentations to Explore Future of Agriculture in the Smith Fork Valley All Crawford area residents, especially those working agricultural land or with an interest in the future of water use, are invited to a meeting on Wednesday March 11, from 4-6 pm, at the Black Canyon [...]
November 26 — There’s a new film festival coming to town. On Saturday, December 13 the Western Slope Conservation Center is teaming up with the Winter Wildlands Alliance to present the Backcountry Film Festival, a collection of professional and grassroots films aimed to inspire winter [...]
October 15, 2014 – Conservation Colorado, Western Colorado Congress, and the Western Slope Conservation Center are proud to announce that John Fielder’s current tour entitled, A Celebration of 50 Years of Colorado Wilderness, is coming to Grand Junction, Montrose and Paonia in November. The [...]
October 15, 2014 – This past summer, a federal court, in response to a suit brought by Wild Earth Guardians, overturned a coal mine expansion decision for the West Elk Mine, and vacated the North Fork Exception to the Colorado Roadless Rule on the grounds that the U.S. government failed to [...]
August 28, 2014 – Local domestic water well owners are invited to participate in a water quality monitoring study that will provide well owners with free, skilled analysis of their water quality. The survey is part of the Western Slope Conservation Center’s water quality monitoring study [...]
August 14, 2014 – Internationally renowned energy expert Amory Lovins will speak at two benefits for the Western Slope Conservation Center on Saturday, September 13th. Mr. Lovins’ first talk will include a limited-seating dinner, followed later in the evening by a public lecture at the [...]