Sierra Club Colorado Chapter Headwaters Group

09/02/2026

Today, we bid farewell to Wendell Berry, one of the great literary voices of our time: poet, novelist, essayist, farmer and devoted guardian of the natural world. His words reminded us to live more gently, to honour the earth beneath our feet and to find grace in every corner of the earth. 🌿🌸🌛

“I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
~ Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things
1934–2026 🕊️

A beautiful final thought from a man whose life and work were rooted in the enduring bonds between humanity, community and the living world. May he now rest within the peace he described so beautifully.

Artwork: Steve Sanderson Art 🎨

08/31/2026

Proposition 137 could divert already collected sales taxes on goods like tents and backpacks into GOCO, wildfire mitigation and outdoor recreation. See:

Proposition 137 could divert sales taxes on goods like tents and backpacks into GOCO, wildfire mitigation and outdoor recreation

08/28/2026

Colorado’s Wild Horses: A New Future

I’m humbled to be elected Chair of Colorado’s HB 25-1283 Wild Horse Advisory Committee, representing Rewilding America Now.
Championed by Rep. Monica Duran and signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis, this effort gives Colorado a stronger role in supporting its wild horses.

Colorado is leading the way toward a new future for wild horses by challenging old assumptions, bringing unlikely partners to the table, and advancing new possibilities for coexistence. The Workgroup will advise the Colorado Department of Agriculture on adoption, sanctuaries, preserves and refuges, federal partnerships, scientifically supported fertility control, and humane, science-based solutions that keep wild horses thriving both on and off the range.

At a time when wild horses are being removed from the West at an accelerating pace, Colorado has an opportunity to lead with a different approach.

Wild horses are not inventory. They are families. They are sentient beings. We must get this right.

Follow Colorado’s wild horse work through the Colorado Department of Agriculture:
https://ag.colorado.gov/category/wild-horse-working-group

08/25/2026

08/24/2026

STOP OUR WILD HORSES FROM GOING TO SLAUGHTER

Born wild....Branded by our government...Promised protection by Congress...yet many ending up in the slaughter pipeline.

This is the broken promise of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses & Burros Act of '71....a federal brand should never lead to a kill pen.

Sign. Share. Your voice matters.
https://actionnetwork.org/.../count-every-horse-stop...?

08/23/2026

"Something will have gone out of us," Wallace Stegner wrote in the opening passage of his now-iconic Wilderness Letter on December 3, 1960, "if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste."

As we prepare to comment on the proposed Roadless Rule rescission, I thought it'd be useful to get some inspiration.

And there's no better example of the power of a public comment than Stegner's famous letter—yes, that really was a public comment—which ultimately led to the passing of the Wilderness Act.

Read my article about the letter, as well as its full text, here: https://ourpubliclandsandwaters.substack.com/p/wallace-stegners-wilderness-letter

08/20/2026

08/15/2026

Can’t wait to see this one!

We had a great screening of In the Company of Wolves: An American Journey, narrated by Jeff Bridges, at the Sedona International Film Festival & Theatres.

The panel discussion on coexistence featured cast member Matt Barnes of the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative and Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, who spoke about making ranches more resilient and less vulnerable to predation in the Northern Rockies and Colorado, Courtney Vail of the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, who spoke about developing coexistence programs in Colorado, and Emily Renn of the NAU School of Earth and Sustainability and Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project, who spoke about coexistence with Mexican gray wolves and expanding the population to the Grand Canyon ecoregion.

The In the Company of Wolves Film will be playing at the Sedona International Film Festival & Theatres through August 13.