24,400 acres are being analyzed for travel management planning in central Colorado. BRC has been heavily engaged in camping and travel management planning in Chaffee County, Colorado in which we have seem substantial restrictions and closures being proposed. Bordering...
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Articles: Colorado
Camping within Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
Located in Southwest Colorado, 174,000 acres make up Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. This monument is home to many pueblo and ancient Native American sites. The supplementary rule to the current management plan would restrict many uses such as pine nut...
CONTACT YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS: BRC Supports Legislation to Withdraw Proposed BLM Rule “Conservation and Landscape Health”
The Bureau of Land Management recently proposed a new rule to FLPMA to prioritize conservation and landscape health on BLM managed lands. This rule proposes prioritizing conservation on BLM land through a new scheme of selling "conservation leases." This is a backdoor...
Forest Service Proposed Rule to Prioritize Conservation Instead of Management
Just days after the BLM announced their proposed supplementary rule which would prioritize conservation, the US Forest Service released a proposed rule that also has the same deadline, June 20, 2023 for public comment. Please join with BRC and others and submit a...
Shape the Future of Jumbo Mountain Travel Management Plan in Colorado
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Uncompahgre Field Office (Colorado) is accepting comments on the Environmental Assessment for the Jumbo Mountain Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) Comprehensive Travel and Transportation Management Plan. This is a popular 1,600...
Vehicle Based Dispersed Camping at Risk in Colorado!
We have been watching proposed changes for dispersed camping in Chaffee and Lake Counties in Colorado for the past year. This is an ongoing effort by the U.S. Forest Service as well as the BLM to implement restrictive camping and travel management within these...
Will the Six State Plan to Save the Colorado River Work?
On January 30, six of the seven Colorado River basin states jointly released a proposal to the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) in response to that agency’s January 31 deadline to avoid facing possible preemptive federal intervention. Technically, it’s a...
Defend Lake Mead and Lake Powell: Don’t Let Bureau of Reclamation and National Park Service Close Our Reservoirs
UPDATE: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE COMMENT PERIOD EXTENDED UNTIL JANUARY 22, 2023. IMPORTANT: IT IS IMPORTANT TO READ THE FULL BRIEFING BEFORE YOU COMMENT. THIS ACTION ALERT FORM BELOW WILL SEND COMMENTS TO BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, AND MEMBERS OF...
RELEASE: BlueRibbon Coalition Opposes Camp Hale National Monument Designation
On October 12, 2022 in Colorado, President Biden designated 53,000 acres as the Camp Hale National Monument. The designation is also accompanied by a 225,000 acre mineral withdrawal in The Thompson Divide. BlueRibbon Coalition does not support the President’s abuse of...
Fill Lake Powell Action Alert: Tell the Bureau of Reclamation to Support the Path to 3588 Plan to Fill Lake Powell
Read Our Full Analysis Recently the Bureau of Reclamation which oversees Lake Powell and the other reservoirs within the Colorado River Basin hosted two public meetings to inform the public of future plans to address the future management plans for the Colorado River....









