Protecting Collegiate Peaks Wilderness
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Help The Wilderness Land Trust save a piece of the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness in Colorado from development!
This 19-acre property is just off Independence Pass within the beautiful viewshed of the world-renowned Scenic Highway 82 (Independence Pass) with the popular Green Mountain Trail running through it. In the wrong hands, this beautiful land is vulnerable to mining, residential development, and road construction, and the Green Mountain Trail could be cut off from public use.
The Wilderness Land Trust has the opportunity right now to buy this land, which holds the last remaining development rights in this portion of the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, and protect this area of the wilderness forever. But we need your help.
The Trust needs to raise $150,000 to acquire this critical piece of land. A very generous donor has offered to match, dollar for dollar, all donations toward this project up to $75,000. By meeting this match, you will help us purchase and transfer this incredible land to public ownership to be incorporated into the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness.
About Collegiate Peaks Wilderness
The Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of central Colorado is one of iconic beauty. Located southeast of Aspen, Colorado, this wilderness is dotted with high alpine lakes, hanging valleys and 14,000-foot peaks. The world-renowned Colorado state Highway 82 borders the Collegiate Peaks as it winds through the Roaring Fork Valley and up to 12,000 feet over Independence Pass, displaying for all who drive it the impressive terrain that makes up this special wilderness area.
As with all wilderness areas, the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness brings with it a steadfast certainty that, although its incredible landscape changes with the seasons, over the years and decades it remains the same – a wild place where man is merely a visitor.
Yet, there is land within our wilderness areas that can destroy this certainty. Private land (inholdings) where development, mining, and road construction are all possible, threaten the very thing that makes the wilderness areas so special. They allow the landscape to be developed or mined, disrupting the delicate balance of flora, fauna and wildlife habitat, and threatening recreational access to the public. These inholdings create opportunity for man to take root where no man should.
Please consider helping The Wilderness Land Trust save this piece of the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness and protect it for future generations to enjoy. If you donate now, your donation will be matched dollar for dollar.
If you have any questions about this land, please contact Lands Specialist Kelly Conde, [email redacted].
This 19-acre property is just off Independence Pass within the beautiful viewshed of the world-renowned Scenic Highway 82 (Independence Pass) with the popular Green Mountain Trail running through it. In the wrong hands, this beautiful land is vulnerable to mining, residential development, and road construction, and the Green Mountain Trail could be cut off from public use.
The Wilderness Land Trust has the opportunity right now to buy this land, which holds the last remaining development rights in this portion of the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, and protect this area of the wilderness forever. But we need your help.
The Trust needs to raise $150,000 to acquire this critical piece of land. A very generous donor has offered to match, dollar for dollar, all donations toward this project up to $75,000. By meeting this match, you will help us purchase and transfer this incredible land to public ownership to be incorporated into the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness.
About Collegiate Peaks Wilderness
The Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of central Colorado is one of iconic beauty. Located southeast of Aspen, Colorado, this wilderness is dotted with high alpine lakes, hanging valleys and 14,000-foot peaks. The world-renowned Colorado state Highway 82 borders the Collegiate Peaks as it winds through the Roaring Fork Valley and up to 12,000 feet over Independence Pass, displaying for all who drive it the impressive terrain that makes up this special wilderness area.
As with all wilderness areas, the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness brings with it a steadfast certainty that, although its incredible landscape changes with the seasons, over the years and decades it remains the same – a wild place where man is merely a visitor.
Yet, there is land within our wilderness areas that can destroy this certainty. Private land (inholdings) where development, mining, and road construction are all possible, threaten the very thing that makes the wilderness areas so special. They allow the landscape to be developed or mined, disrupting the delicate balance of flora, fauna and wildlife habitat, and threatening recreational access to the public. These inholdings create opportunity for man to take root where no man should.
Please consider helping The Wilderness Land Trust save this piece of the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness and protect it for future generations to enjoy. If you donate now, your donation will be matched dollar for dollar.
If you have any questions about this land, please contact Lands Specialist Kelly Conde, [email redacted].
Fundraising team (2)
Ingrid Ougland
Organizer
Bainbridge Island, WA
The Wilderness Land Trust
Beneficiary
Kelly Conde
Team member