Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act: New Wilderness and Recreation Areas
This act designates new wilderness, recreation, and conservation areas in Colorado, meaning more protected lands for outdoor activities. It establishes management rules for these areas, affecting access, recreational opportunities, and environmental and wildlife protection. Additionally, the act addresses water rights and land use, including grazing.
Key points
Designates new wilderness areas like Holy Cross, Hoosier Ridge, Tenmile, and Eagles Nest, increasing protected lands from development and preserving natural landscapes.
Establishes the Tenmile Recreation Management Area, promoting diverse outdoor activities such as mountain biking, hiking, and fishing, while restricting motorized vehicle use.
Creates the Porcupine Gulch and Williams Fork Mountains Wildlife Conservation Areas, aimed at protecting wildlife migration corridors and ecological resources, with limitations on vehicles and roads.
Designates the Camp Hale National Historic Landscape, preserving significant historical sites, offering recreational opportunities, and providing funding for restoration and unexploded ordnance removal.
Withdraws the Thompson Divide area from mineral extraction laws, protecting its agricultural, wildlife, and air quality values, and introduces a pilot program for fugitive methane use from coal mines.
Establishes the Curecanti National Recreation Area, to be managed by the National Park Service, ensuring recreational opportunities like boating, hunting, and fishing, while respecting existing water rights.
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