Sierra Club Colorado Chapter Headwaters Group

06/02/2026

We can still do more - lots more!

Colorado ranks high in renewable energy production and promotion for 2025, but a surprising list of peer states also does well.

06/01/2026

The House Appropriations Subcommittee dropped its FY27 Interior spending bill last week which is nearly identical to last year’s failed bill.

05/30/2026

Beyond the Status Quo: Wild Horse License Plate Bill- Colorado has taken a concrete step toward supporting humane wild horse management. HB26-1306, creating Colorado’s new wild horse license plate, is now law.

Governor Jared Polis championed wild horse issues during his time in Congress and continues to do so as Governor. That longstanding commitment helped create the foundation for this work to move forward. Big thank you to House Majority Leader Monica Duran for HB26-1306 and helping turn this effort into law.

As a member of the legislatively created SB23-275 Colorado Wild Horse Workgroup, we developed the recommendation for the wild horse plate. Seeing this move from a state workgroup process to enacted law reflects what can happen when leadership, persistence, and collaborative policy work come together. This is more than a license plate. Revenue generated will help support: wild horse adoptions, sanctuaries, refuges, reversible fertility control, where appropriate, CDA staff and the development of humane, non-lethal management approaches and alternatives to roundups.

In a landscape where wild horse policy is too often reduced to removals and conflict, this creates a practical new tool. One that puts resources behind humane management, practical solutions, and expanded options. Colorado art and design schools have been invited to submit original artwork for consideration for the plate, which goes on sale January 1.

Wild horses remain part of Colorado’s landscapes, history, and identity. While CO’s new wild horse plate will not solve every challenge, it adds resources for solutions to move efforts for our wild horses beyond the status quo...and that matters

05/27/2026

05/12/2026

A bit of follow up on The Earth Day presentation.

Rewilding is often mischaracterized as nostalgia — a sentimental longing for some imagined pre-human wilderness, or a technical conservation strategy dressed

05/03/2026

https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/05/letter-to-the-editor-sen-dylan-roberts-blocked-highly-qualified-nominees-for-parks-wildlife/78741/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRkbwtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEekzUhlCl0hbLzpzca5D77-T2k4EJ8HLjB5g0qU9B_Pl3rInamzh-TSOI2uq8_aem_8xNDOldQ2fF3hGL90ogiEg

Democratic Senator Dylan Roberts betrayed the public interest by siding with MAGA-aligned trophy-hunting interests and ranching groups to derail two highly qualified nominees to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW)...

04/29/2026

Public lands, seems like the easiest thing to bring us all together.

Look up your lawmakers, see how they voted, and call/email them in 60 seconds.

04/25/2026

Colorado’s Senate Agriculture Committee Is Failing All Coloradans
Under Senator Dylan Roberts’ leadership, the Senate Agriculture Committee is failing the public trust.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife exists to protect wildlife, habitat, biodiversity, water, climate resilience, public lands, and the outdoor economy for all Coloradans—not to serve hunting lobbies, welfare ranching, and political insiders.
Blocking qualified, science-based commissioners like Dr. John Emerick and Dr. Chris Sichko puts politics over stewardship and special interests over science. At a time of worsening climate impacts, habitat loss, and increasing pressure on wildlife across Colorado, these decisions do real damage.
This is not just bad politics. It hurts our land, our wildlife, our rural communities, and every Coloradan who depends on healthy ecosystems and honest public stewardship.
https://open.substack.com/.../dylan-roberts-says-hes...

04/25/2026

Science-Based Wildlife Management Means Wildlife Comes First
Wildlife management should be based on facts, not politics or special interests. That means using real science: tracking populations, protecting habitat, measuring impacts, and proving that actions like hunting, trapping, or killing animals actually help ecosystems stay healthy.
If agencies cannot show that these actions improve wildlife and the land, then it is not management, it is just permission to keep doing harm. Too often in Colorado, “science-based management” is used as a phrase while decisions still favor hunting pressure, extractive industries, and narrow private interests over biodiversity, climate resilience, and the public trust. Wildlife do not exist just for control, profit, or recreation. They are part of the living systems that keep all of us alive.

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