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Keep Routt Wild December 2025 Newsletter

Welcome to the December 2025 Keep Routt Wild Newsletter!

Hello, Keep Routt Wild followers!

In this month’s newsletter we ask you to consider a donation to Keep Routt Wild, as Yampa Valley Gives is open now through December 9th.

For those who are unfamiliar with Keep Routt Wild, we are a community organization dedicated to the preservation of wildlife and wild places in Routt County. We do this through education, engagement, and practicing conservation through informed science. We have no paid staff, relying solely on volunteers including our talented Board of Directors. You can read about them here. Every dollar donated goes towards our mission, delivering a powerful conservation bang per donated buck. With thousands of followers in the Yampa Valley, our newsletter, radio, web, and Facebook presence makes us the largest conservation forum in the Yampa Valley.

This is the major annual fundraising event for Keep Routt Wild. Donations given anytime from now through December 9 (Colorado Gives Day) are also boosted by a percentage of a large incentive fund, meaning that your gift goes even further.

We are a 501(c)3 non-profit, and we humbly ask you this Colorado Gives Day to consider a donation to Keep Routt Wild here. Thank you.

To find out more about Keep Routt Wild, go to our website, or follow our nearly daily postings on Facebook.

Our newsletter today includes an updates on local topics of conservation interest.

As reported in the Steamboat Pilot, Keep Routt Wild submitted detailed comments on the proposed Stagecoach Mountain Ranch (SMR) development to the Routt County Planning Department.

While much of the public debate surrounds economic and social issues, our focus is entirely on wildlife and other resource impacts, reflecting our charter. Our interest in SMR goes beyond this individual project, as this will be one of the first major projects under the County’s new UDC (Unified Development Code) that addresses wildlife mitigation. Therefore, this project will set a precedent of how wildlife mitigation is treated in Routt County for years to come.

The Pilot did a good summary of our comments, and you can read the story here.

Alternately, you can read our entire comments here.

What we’ve been reading and watching

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Jeff Davis, who led Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s wolf reintroduction efforts, steps down as agency director

“The director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, who ushered in the state’s wolf reintroduction program amid widespread scrutiny over many of his decisions, is stepping down. Jeff Davis announced Tuesday he will move to the Colorado Department of Natural Resources executive director’s office as a senior policy advisor for strategic priorities. Replacing him as interim director is retired Maj. Gen. Laura Clellan, formerly the executive director of the Colorado Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. She will start December 1.”

Colorado State Land Board approves La Jara Basin sale, reversing a possible plan to cancel the 9-year deal

“Nearly $50M sale of 46,000-acre basin in San Luis Valley to Forest Service, BLM and CPW is largest-ever Colorado project for Land and Water Conservation Fund."

Private ski area proposal near Steamboat divides community

“As Routt County awaits the first public hearing on a proposal to develop a private ski resort and elite enclave 20 miles south of Steamboat Springs, there is widespread anxiety and divisions across the community are deepening.”

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