Achieving Permanent Protection for the Thompson Divide

Photo: Jon Mullen
GRANT NAME:
Achieving Permanent Protection for the Thompson Divide
GRANTEE:
Wilderness Workshop
LOCATION
Carbondale, CO
AMOUNT
$15,000
Year
2022

To protect 200,000 acres of the Thompson Divide from oil and gas development of with a permanent Congressionally designated mineral withdrawal; permanent protection for 100,000 acres along Colorado’s Continental Divide with wilderness, recreation and wildlife management areas and the Country’s first National Historic Landscape designations.