A $34 million open space acquisition that will preserve 650 acres in the upper Snowmass Creek Valley, bounded on three sides by the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area, will go to Pitkin County commissioners for initial.
Temporary protections against oil and gas development for western Colorado's Thompson Divide are coming soon after lobbying by a coalition of conservationists, ranchers and recreationists.
For nearly two decades, a unique coalition of conservationists, ranchers and recreationists have fought to block oil and gas development on a rugged section of land on the Western Slope.