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Celebrating 30 Years of Protecting Wildlands
  • Nov 11: Raise Hell for a Reason: Cheers to Trails & Wild Spaces - Pint Night at Seven's Gate
  • Puma Hills Roadless Area Volunteer Restoration Project - POSTPONED DUE TO GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
Find more info on our Events page!
Make Your Public Comment by Nov 10! Comment to Defend the BLM Public Lands Rule
Bighorn Sheep Canyon, made up of predominantly intact BLM managed public lands. Photo EcoFlight.
On September 11, the Bureau of Land Management proposed to rescind the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, aka the BLM Public Lands Rule, which was just finalized last year to put conservation on equal footing with other public land uses, as directed by the 1976 Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA). For more info and talking points, see this press release from our public lands partners.
This proposal has a 60 day public comment period, which ends on November 10. Add your voice to defend our public lands at actnowforpubliclands.org/take-action.
In this edition you will find:
  • President's Message: Standing Strong to Protect Public Lands
  • Biggest Public Lands Threats: Selling Them Off
  • Standing Strong: Florissant Fossil Beds
  • Fix Our Forests Act Would Destroy Forests w/o Protecting Communities
  • Energy Development Spotlight: Raton Basin and South Park
  • WC 2025 Restoration Projects
  • Energy Emergency Threatens Public Lands
  • Sep 27: Celebrating 30 Years of Protecting Wildlands!
  • Standing Strong with Wild Connections
Wild Connections Stands in Solidarity with our Public Lands
Our National Forests, BLM lands, National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges are at risk due to dramatic staff and resource cuts, funding freezes and extractive resource orders by the Trump administration, who are working alongside lawmakers and special interest groups to sell off federally-managed public lands.
Wild Connections stands in solidarity with the staff of our Pike-San Isabel National Forest, Royal Gorge BLM, Florissant Fossil Beds and Browns Canyon National Monuments, and the US Fish & Wildlife.
Learn More and Take Action at KeepItPublic.CO.
A new website, keepitpublic.co, was recently created by the broader community of public lands conservation organizations in Colorado as your central hub for staying informed and taking effective action to prevent the sell-off our public lands!
Our July 12 Seeding Restoration Project was a Big Success!
Big thanks to our volunteers and our partners at the Forest Service South Park Ranger District for making our 39 Mile Mountain restoration project a success! We closed and seeded two sections, which helped improve the local wildlife habitat, while also opening up an additional 1,300 acres contiguous with the current 11,800 acre 39 Mile Mountain Roadless Area!
Photo: WC 39 M Mtn Restoration Project. Photo Dillon Eldridge.
We invite you to join us in kicking off the 2025 Pikes Peak Give Campaign, which will run from November 1 until December 31. Get ready to make a difference with the Give! Campaign! Give! is all about empowering local nonprofits and fueling the change-makers in the Pikes Peak Region. Help us continue to keep our community wild! You can visit the Wild Connections Give! page and make a donation here : https://campaign.givepikespeak.org/nonprofit/wild-connections
Options for direct online giving
Or make your gift to Wild Connections year round through Colorado Gives. Go here to make your gift.
Wild Connections is a science-based conservation organization that works to identify, protect and restore lands of the Upper Arkansas and South Platte watersheds to ensure the survival of native species and ecological richness. We acknowledge that the Arkansas and South Platte watersheds are the ancestral lands of the Ute, Cheyenne, Jicarilla Apache, Arapaho and other indigenous peoples.
Westcliffe - Program office info@wildconnections.org john@wildconnections.org 817-939-4239 Colorado Springs - Development office india@wildconnections.org 719-660-5311
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