Use Your Voice to Protect our Public Lands
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It may not seem like much, but contacting our elected officials does make a difference.
Our leaders need to listen to their constituents. Keep up the calls and emails.
Who do I contact?
Representative Hurd:
- Grand Junction office: 970-208-0455
- Durango Office: 970-317-6167
- DC Office: 202-225-4676
Senator Bennet:
- DC Office: 202-224-5852
- Durango Office: 970-259-1710
- Denver Office: 303-455-7600
Senator Hickenlooper:
- DC Office: 202-224-5941
- Denver Office: 303-244-1628
La Plata County Commissioners: 970-382-6219
- Clyde Church (District 1)
- Marsha Porter-Norton (District 2)
- Matt Salka (District 3)
Montezuma County Commissioners:
- Jim Candelaria (District 1): 970-914-2563
- Kent Lindsay (District 2): 970-560-1471
- Gerald Koppenhafer (District 3): 970-749-0262
What should I say?
-Thank the Senators for their efforts in opposing actions by the Trump Administration that negatively impact our public lands and for supporting federal workers.
-Voice your concerns for protecting public lands. Support the Antiquities Act. Speak to the legislative proposals listed below.
-Share the importance of federal lands workers keeping their jobs.
-Tell them you do not want your public lands sold off to the highest bidder. Tell your representatives that you know there is not an energy crisis, and we don't need to open up our public lands to more extraction.
-Demand that they oppose the nomination of Kathleen Sgamma, a career oil and gas industry supporter, to be the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
What else can I do?
Use the Media. Write Letters to the Editor and Op-Eds in newspapers.
Fill your social media with facts and information.
Engage with groups working to protect our public lands and our democracy.
Spread the word within your community
Organize/attend local Public Lands events
Travel for bigger events if possible
Legislation to Oppose
👎 H.R. 521: Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act, which would remove the ability of the president to designate national monuments.
👎 HR 1206: To require the BLM to withdraw the 'Public Lands Rule', which puts conservation on equal footing as oil and gas development on public lands.
👎 H.R. 471: Fix Our Forests Act - hiding behind wildfire mitigation, this bill would weaken environmental laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act, and make it easier to log national forests.
👎 H.R. 1997: Congressman Hurd's Productive Public Lands Act - recklessly reissues nine western land management plans, five in Colorado, that were created by diverse stakeholders over many years to protect all lands from energy development.
👎 H.R. Public Lands in Public Lands Act - bans the sale or transfer of most public lands managed by the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Forest Service. The bill also requires congressional approval for the disposal of publicly accessible federal land tracts exceeding 300 acres and for public land tracts exceeding 5 acres that are accessible via a public waterway.
