San Juan Mountains Wilderness Campaign

Mount Sneffels Wilderness, CO Photo: Jack Brauer
GRANT NAME:
San Juan Mountains Wilderness Campaign
GRANTEE:
San Juan Citizens Alliance
LOCATION
Durango, CO
AMOUNT
$40,000
Year
2018

To protect 60,000 acres in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains by expanding the Mt. Sneffels and Lizard Head Wilderness, designating McKenna Peak as the first desert wilderness area in southwest Colorado, and protecting the Animas River headwaters from future mining.