Objectives of the Conservation Summit

Oct: 6-8 - Keystone

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The overarching goal of this initial Conservation Summit is to maintain healthy wildlife populations and habitat into the year 2050.

To accomplish this ambitious, yet necessary result, Summit participants must:

• Define the current status of wildlife habitat in Colorado, with an emphasis on impacts to wildlife species from urban growth, water use, resource development and climate change. 
• Project the long-term trends to wildlife habitat in Colorado, along with the expected impacts to wildlife and habitat from these sources.
• Determine the desired future condition (our vision) for wildlife and habitat in Colorado through 2050 with a focus on the interrelated topics of federal lands, private lands, water, youth access and climate change.
• Recommend both short-term and long-term actions that will lead to achievement of the desired future conditions for wildlife and habitat which are supported by a consensus of Summit participants.
• Establish a framework and process for further development of recommendations to serve as a catalyst for implementation of the agreed-upon actions and to ensure the goals of the Conservation Summit are achieved.
• Summarize and distribute the results of the Conservation Summit to a broad cross-section of the public with the goal of informing Coloradans about the threats to our wildlife species and habitat and the actions needed to sustain or wildlife heritage and traditions.

Participating Organizations

 

Trout Unlimited

The Wilderness Society

National Wildlife Federation

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

Colorado Mountain Club

The Nature Conservancy

The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization

Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation

Colorado Environmental Coalition

Colorado Bowhunters Assocation