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A local landowner has partnered with the Colorado West Land Trust to protect 320 acres of irrigated cropland and natural habitat in the Mack area from the possibility of future

Tony Caligiuri was ready for it to fall apart. Instead, the pandemic gave conservation in Colorado a boost. Soaring land values, spiking prices for water, legislation boosting incentives for landowner...

Colorado West Land Trust was the beneficiary of a large grant from Great Outdoors Colorado on Tuesday. The GOCO board awarded a $133,700 grant to the land trust to support added staff capacity as the community and organization responds to the pandemic. A recent merger expanded CWLT’s service area to six counties, including Delta, Gunnison, Mesa, Montrose, Ouray, and San Miguel, required more staff to adequately support the area’s public and private conserved lands. This grant is part ...

Where would the Grand Valley be without the Colorado West Land Trust? Peach grower Harry Talbott has said he doubts there still would be a peach industry here if not for the work the trust has done to preserve productive orchard land from development. If that was the land trust’s only achievement, it would be worth celebrating. But it’s done so much more in the 40 years since it was started by Palisade farmers. It has conserved roughly 125,000 acres of land stretching from the Bookcli...