By PETE KOLBENSCHLAG

By PETE KOLBENSCHLAG

By PETE KOLBENSCHLAG

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster himself. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”  After 20 years of organizing in rural Colorado, I’ve learned that lasting results come from supporting rather than opposing, from building bridges […]

By PETE KOLBENSCHLAG

The U.S. BLM headquarters belongs in the national seat of government, as America’s Founders would have advised.

Colorado could be badly harmed if its efforts to transition to clean energy are put on hold by a new administration.

With a new administration and Congress, a test will be coming soon for those Coloradans called to DC.

By PETE KOLBENSCHLAG

With the shifting tides in Congress, cutting climate and conservation funding will hurt rural places, not lift them up.

Public lands conservation, like a new national monument for the Dolores Canyons of Mesa and Montrose counties, can promote local prosperity.

Adam Frisch's position seems to be that fracking more of Colorado’s public lands to export more U.S. gas abroad is good.

By PETE KOLBENSCHLAG

By PETE KOLBENSCHLAG

America and other nations are failing to meet climate goals as the window to avert disaster closes. The state of Colorado is failing, too.

The Public Lands Rule now being considered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will better clarify conservation obligations embedded in its nearly 50-year-old organic act. It’s well beyond time. I have worked on public lands and conservation issues…

Smart investment in frontline climate action needs to make it to the regions facing the most severe risk from climate change.

The Gunnison River watershed’s snowpack is near 140%. That’s a rolling average, measured over 30 years. So we are about 40% above the 30-year average for snowpack on this date. For our mountain reservoirs that’s a relief. But we should not be fooled…

By PETE KOLBENSCHLAG

The Civilian Conservation Corps, the CCC that built Red Rocks amphitheatre in the foothills outside Denver and Rim Rock Drive in Colorado National Monument, also constructed hundreds of miles of irrigation canals and ditches, recreation trails, roads…