The Weminuche Wilderness at 50 -- and a way forward for public lands
The creation of Colorado's wilderness area was remarkably nonpartisan
Editor’s note: Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the San Juan Citizens’ Alliance celebration of 50 years of the Weminuche Wilderness, Colorado’s largest wilderness area at nearly 500,000 acres. Congress passed the legislation establishing the Weminuche in 1975, and it now covers some of the most spectacular landscape in the nation. This is an …
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