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Conservation groups ask Garfield County to allow study of voter-funded wildfire, water and ranchland measures
Summary
Avalon Valley Land Trust and Middle Colorado Watershed Council asked the Garfield County commissioners at a Feb. 3 work session to permit nonbinding feasibility research and polling — not a tax or ballot placement — to assess whether voters would support a public funding mechanism for wildfire mitigation, source-water protection and keeping working ranchlands intact.
At a Garfield County Board of County Commissioners work session on Feb. 3, representatives from Aspen Valley Land Trust and the Middle Colorado Watershed Council outlined a proposal to study whether a voter-approved funding measure could support wildfire mitigation, water protection and working lands.
Kate Collins, executive director of the Middle Colorado Watershed Council, said the group had received a “pre-award notice on a $350,000 forest restoration and wildfire risk mitigation grant from Colorado State Forest Service,” and that the Trust for Public Land (TPL) would fund feasibility research while philanthropic money would pay for public-opinion polling. Collins said the research would explore revenue options, fiscal capacity, legal…
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