Mission & Vision

Based on core values of stewardship, conservation, sustainability and equity with a focus on ensuring a positive recreational experience.

Focused on addressing issues and needs that are critical to protecting Colorado’s mountains, including watershed health, wildlife management, and ensuring access for all utilizing a thoughtful and deliberate approach.

Federal, state and local governments must work together to identify ways they can cross bureaucratic boundaries to more effectively and efficiently allocate and share resources.

This is a challenge for more than just public land managers. Other diverse interests whose decisions have an impact on the number of people visiting our public lands must also be involved in developing solutions: conservation, transportation, tourism, economic development, and many others.

The effort to create solutions and the solutions themselves must incorporate and reflect the perspectives and interests of our state’s diverse populations, including a diversity of age, abilities, race, gender, socio-economics, geography, religion, and philosophy.

 Constrained resources at the federal, state and local levels have resulted in a reactive approach to land management. To protect our mountains, we need a strategy that is proactive and deliberate.

We can’t predict what Colorado will look like in the future or how recreational demands may change. We need an approach that is adaptable and iterative over the long-term so it can manage for this uncertain future.

 This approach must identify new ways to provide the necessary funding to support the critical investments needed to conserve Colorado’s wildlife, sensitive habitats, recreational opportunities, and outdoor way of life.