Sunrise from the Canyon Rim - by Piñon Canyon artist Frank LaLumia

Saving Piñon Canyon

by Lon Robertson (Director of the Piñon Canyon Expansion Opposition Coalition)

A program presented by Boulder County Audubon Society and Sierra Club

Indian Peaks Group
February 24, 4:00pm
REI Boulder Store, 1789 28th Street, Boulder, CO

Citizens from southeastern Colorado have been working valiantly to resist an increase to the size of Connecticut of the Piñon Canyon army maneuver site. This expansion could eliminate much of the Comanche National Grasslands, along with hundreds of thousands of acres of private ranchland. The presentation will provide a brief history of the Piñon Canyon issue — from the original taking of 238,000 acres in 1983 to the current plans of at least 418,000 acres. It will also include an update of the past and current legislation being considered in the state and nationally. There will be many opportunities to ask questions or to volunteer or offer support.

Lon Robertson is director of the Piñon Canyon Expansion Opposition Coalition and a generational rancher from the Kim and Branson Colorado area. He and his wife Anita work and live on the family ranch in the area that was homesteaded in 1916 by Lon's grandfather and grandmother.

Please join us in this important discussion about saving an ecological and cultural treasure. You can view the Piñon Canyon Expansion Opposition Coalition web site here.

For information contact Donna Bonetti at donnambirdlady@yahoo.com

Free and open to all

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