BLM Releases Final EIS for Parkdale Quarry Proposed Expansion onto 700 acres of Echo Canyon Lands with Wilderness Characteristics
Public Review Period Ends July 13, 2020. Go here for more info.
Fly Over Grape Creek proposed Wilderness
Threatened by proposed mining Now with New Intro by Congresswoman DeGette!
Go on a virtual tour of Grape Creek with with our friends at EcoFlight and introduced by Rep. Diana DeGette. It highlights the illegal proposed mining threats to the Grape Creek Wilderness Study Area and proposed Wilderness. For additional info and actions you can take, go to our Grape Creek page.
Proposed 2020 Restoration Project Area on the West Side of La Salle Pass. Photo John Sztukowski
La Salle Pass Restoration Workday
Saturday, September 12, 2020
Barricading illegal motorized tracks that threaten the roadless lands on the south side of Farnum Peak/Schoolmarm Mountain. Volunteers are neded! Go here for details.
First Known Man’s and Woman’s Ascents of Pikes Peak Mountaineering History Recounted by John Stansfield, Storyteller and Writer
A free virtual program
Wednesday, July 22, 2020,
7:00 to 8:15 PM
Which Native Americans might have first summited the 14,000' heights of Pikes Peak, we do not know. But the stories of the adventuring young European-American woman and man first known to reach the peak are well worth retelling. More... The free broadcast will be on Zoom. Register at: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqdO6tpjksE9IZfXAhHWIuXyjVP-me94ZD
View of James Peak in the Rain by Samuel Seymour, 1820.
Celebrate 25!
Explore some of Wild Connections 25 years of history and accomplishments
