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Mountain climbing group backs Polis, Salazar wilderness bills

By | 10.18.10 | 5:30 pm

The Access Fund, a national climbing advocacy group, recently announced its support for a pair of proposed bills that would designate more than 121,000 acres of federal lands in Colorado as wilderness and another 99,000 acres as special management areas.…

Udall, Bennet back San Juan wilderness, but will they support two other plans?

By | 11.11.09 | 2:07 pm

Colorado Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet earlier this week introduced the Senate version of U.S. Rep. John Salazar’s San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act, which would protect more than 60,000 acres of public lands in southwestern Colorado as either wilderness…