ALERT – ACTION NEEDED

ESWA supports passage of the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act (CORE). CORE has been passed by the U.S. House five times, but has yet to pass the Senate. 

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Good News! Given the Senate's inaction, ESWA supports  President Biden's October 12, 2022 creation of the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument as a good first step pending passage of the full CORE Act. Monument status will protect some of the CORE lands from further development. We are heartened by Senator Bennet's promises to continue to fight for passage of the full CORE act. 

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The result of decades of collaboration, CORE would add 20,196 precious acres to our three local Wilderness Areas -- Eagles Nest, Holy Cross, and Ptarmigan Peak. CORE would create three new local Wilderness Areas in the Tenmile Range, Williams Fork Mountains, and Hoosier Ridge. It will also establish the Tenmile Recreation Management Area with 10,000 additional non-Wilderness acres allowing continued mountain-bike access. CORE’s designation of Camp Hale as the first National Historic Landscape would honor our World War II veterans, and preserve an important page in Colorado’s outdoor recreation history as many veterans went on to open ski resorts and outdoor recreation businesses. Overall, CORE will protect 400,000 acres of Colorado public lands from development. Representative Boebert has called CORE a “land grab,” but CORE would provide new protections for just 1.8% of Colorado’s existing public lands, while enhancing our local recreational economy.

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