Following an epic winter in the Gunnison Valley, we are excited for the arrival of summer and all the glorious flowers that surely await us. Our 31 st year of Don Baker Legacy Hikes is here, and we hope you will join our weekly adventures into the magnificent public lands we thrive on conserving.

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My name is Andi, and I am a second-year law student who has been a legal intern at HCCA since June 2022.

In early October Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland initiated an administrative withdrawal process for the Thompson Divide and lands surrounding Red Lady (Mt. Emmons).

Did you know? 78% of land in Gunnison County is public land owned and managed by the federal government.

A fundraiser to benefit HCCA's Save Red Lady campaign, don’t miss this celebratory backcountry community event!

Did you miss Paul Andersen's inspirational presentation, "Crested Butte and the Sacred Bond of Community" at our annual meeting? Want to see it again? Well, we've made it available for your viewing pleasure.

This morning, October 12th, 2022, President Biden announced that he has initiated a mineral withdrawal of the Thompson Divide area and lands surrounding Mt. Emmons. This announcement is an enormous step forward with the plan to forever eliminate the threat of mining from Red Lady.

In response to the historic and current environmental racism occurring in Colorado, the Colorado Legislature passed the Environmental Justice Act (“the Act”) on July 2, 2021.

Nobody should have to experience the negative environmental impacts from industrial, governmental, and commercial activities, let alone bear a disproportionate burden of these impacts. Environmental racism is the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on low income communities and communities of color.

The term infrastructure often brings up images of man-made structures in urban areas. However, infrastructure also includes natural infrastructure such as “healthy, functioning ecosystems that deliver clean air and clean water, support wildlife, sequester carbon, and are less prone to the effects of catastrophic wildfire.”

Volunteers will spend time building rock structures to improve critical habitat for the Gunnison Sage-Grouse. We will use innovative, yet simple, restoration methods-small rock structures to raise the water table to support plants and insects needed by wildlife.

On June 14, 2022, Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton declared that states in the Colorado River Basin, including Colorado, must create an emergency plan to stop using between 2 and 4 million acre-feet of water over the next year. States in the Colorado River Basin continue to negotiate and agree on a plan.