Landowners in Colorado could play a major role in President Joe Biden's efforts to conserve 30% of the nation's undeveloped lands by 2030, and make money at the same time. Read the story on Public News Service.
Nominate your Conservation Hero
Do you ever feel like someone is doing so much to protect the places you love in Colorado that you’re inspired to call them your hero? Now’s your chance to thank and honor that special someone. Nominate a person or organization that demonstrates an outstanding commitment to conserving land and water in Colorado.
Keep It Colorado Publishes 2022 Policy Priorities
Keep It Colorado will spend 2022 focusing on policy priorities that will build more support for conservation, and specifically private lands conservation. Keep It Colorado will remain active at the Colorado State Capitol and in Washington D.C., continuing to promote existing conservation tools and look for new opportunities to increase investments in conservation. Read about our 2022 policy priorities at the state and federal levels.
Public agencies, join us: Membership enrollment opens Feb. 1
Coalition at a Glance: Annual Report 2021
Keep It Colorado Awards $247,015 in Grants to Help Land Trusts Conserve Land in Six Counties
A New Focus
The Fall 2021 edition of Saving Land Magazine features a story about using remote monitoring technologies - like satellite and aerial imagery - to monitor conserved lands. The story features our partners Colorado Open Lands and Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust, as well as Keep It Colorado.
Q&A: The Importance of the Conservation Easement Enhancement and Rural Stimulus Act (HB21-1233)
RFP for a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion consultant
Keep It Colorado Grows Its Team: Welcome, Raina Roanhorse
Keep It Colorado has expanded its team with the addition of Raina Roanhorse, who joined the coalition as grant programs and administrative coordinator on September 1. Raina will support the nonprofit’s grant and regrant programs, which benefit the statewide coalition’s work to accelerate the pace and scale of private lands conservation.
Summer 2021 regional meetings: Coming together for conservation
Monitoring Conserved Lands from Space Pays Dividends for Colorado Land Trusts
Keep It Colorado and the Land Trust Alliance partnered to publish a study which shows that these technologies help land trusts reduce the costs, personnel hours and carbon emissions typically associated with observing and documenting changes to landscapes they have conserved. Several land trusts plan to add these technologies to their stewardship toolbox to be more efficient in their property monitoring activities in the future.
A case statement for conservation in the Arkansas Basin
Private, public lands have common interests
Conservation is the key to rural economic stimulus and climate solutions
Most everyone is aware of the ecological benefits of conserving land – clean water, healthy plants and wildlife, and rich habitat for animals, birds and fish. But two other critical outcomes of conservation immediately rise to the top for me: a strong economy and climate change mitigation. Most Coloradans agree.
Big Win for Conservation: Conservation Easement Tax Credit Modifications Passes into Law
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.
A big win for land conservation: HB21-1233 passes
Keep It Colorado’s bill, HB1233 – Conservation Easement Enhancement and Rural Stimulus Act, passed in the Senate on June 7. This bill accomplishes some key policy priorities that will help increase the pace of land conservation and ensure that the conservation easement tax credit program functions as effectively and efficiently as possible.
