On June 30, 2021, Governor Polis signed Conservation Easement Tax Credit Modifications (HB21-1233) into law. The legislation helps to accelerate land conservation in a state threatened by the ongoing climate crisis and population growth, and ensure that the state’s conservation easement tax credit program functions more effectively and efficiently.
Keep It Colorado Awards $269,900 in Grants to Land Trusts to Help Complete Conservation Projects
Colorado Parks and Wildlife Invests $10,000 in Private Lands Conservation Planning
Funding from Great Outdoors Colorado and Colorado Water Conservation Board Advances Private Lands Conservation Planning
Keep It Colorado Receives Funding from Great Outdoors Colorado to Provide Transaction Cost Assistance to Land Trusts and Landowners
Keep It Colorado has received $500,000 in grant funding from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO)’s Resilient Communities Program. The investment will enable Keep It Colorado to develop and administer a program to assist land trusts and landowners in covering the costs of transactions associated with conservation easements in 2021.
Keep It Colorado's Statewide Private Lands Conservation Plan
Keep It Colorado is developing the Statewide Private Lands Conservation Plan, a collaborative plan that rallies land trusts and partners around a unified vision for the future of private lands conservation in Colorado. Because 60 percent of lands in Colorado are privately owned, they account for a significant portion of the state that needs protection.
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The Coalition at a Glance: 2-year Report
Conservation Groups Will Assess Alternative Methods for Valuing Conservation Work
Future Land Conservation Could Bring $195 Million in Economic Activity and 1,200 New Jobs to Rural Colorado
Keep It Colorado and the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust (CCALT) partnered with Colorado State University (CSU) to release a study that demonstrates the important economic impacts that potential future funding from the federal agricultural conservation easement program (ACEP) could have on the state of Colorado.















