Feds approve drilling plan for North Fork Valley that endangers communities BLM callously continues to favor oil and gas interests during COVID pandemic For b-roll footage and high resolution photographs of the North Fork Valley, visit The Wilderness Society’s media resources page. [...]
North Fork of the Gunnison River Environmental and Recreation Needs Assessment DOWNLOAD HERE – North Fork of the Gunnison Environmental and Recreation Needs Assessment This assessment is the product of over a year of data collection, review, and analysis of information by Western Slope [...]
The Tater Heap – WSCC’s Annual Newsletter The Western Slope Conservation Center’s Annual Newsletter – The Tater Heap – is hot of the presses! Click the green text below for program updates, 2017 financial report, and a look back at all the happenings from our 40th [...]
Changes are coming to the Paonia Reservoir. The Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), Fire Mountain Canal Company, and North Fork Water Conservancy District (NFWCD) will host a meeting at Memorial Hall in Hotchkiss on August 15 at 7pm, to explain the work that needs to be accomplished at the Paonia [...]
It’s obvious in rural regions like the Western Slope that non-profits, businesses, and governing bodies work together to get things done. The understanding of the network of partnerships, however, is often anecdotal. In order to get a more accurate understanding of partnership networks here [...]
The 2017 WSCC Annual Meeting included a powerful talk by Dr. John Hausdoerffer, Professor of Environmental Sustainability & Philosophy at Western State Colorado University. Dr. Hausdoerffer spoke on how we as a community draw inspiration from the land with an interactive talk titled “A [...]
Introduction The Western Slope Conservation Center 2016 Strategic Plan is the product of a multi-year process of stakeholder gatherings, board sessions, and committee meetings. It defines who we are, what we do, and why we do it. It prioritizes three program goal areas: Public Lands, Watershed [...]
Use this interactive map to understand the local issues you are interested in–from irrigation to energy development. The data that is illustrated in these maps is accurate and reliable, and together they tell a story of conservation in Delta County. Some particularly interesting layers to [...]
In addition to the 66,280 acres of designated Dominguez Canyon Wilderness, in the heart of the National Conservation Area, the BLM updated its inventory of Lands with Wilderness Characteristics (“LWC”) and identified four additional areas within Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation [...]
Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (“ACEC”) are areas where special management attention and practices is needed to protect and prevent irreparable harm to important historic, cultural, or scenic values, fish and wildlife resources or other natural systems or processes, or to [...]