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Outdoor-coalition planners seek local input; commissioners warn of outside influence
Summary
Keystone Policy Center presented the Northwest Colorado Outdoor Coalition’s plan and a 2025 public-engagement schedule. Commissioners welcomed outreach but several raised concerns that regional partnerships and state-led initiatives risk advancing plans shaped by outside actors rather than local residents.
Keystone Policy Center representatives told commissioners on Feb. 11 that the Northwest Colorado Outdoor Coalition — a Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) regional partnerships grantee — will spend much of 2025 on listening sessions and a draft recreation and conservation vision for Moffat and Rio Blanco counties.
Keystone staff Kallie King Newman and Christine Zettle described the coalition’s origins (the group began in 2022 with a capacity grant), its recent strategic-planning grant from CPW and an outreach plan that lists listening sessions for recreation users (river, motorized, non-motorized), land use and economic development stakeholders, indigenous and youth groups, and local governments. Keystone said the planning work aims to produce a consensus…
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