Campaigns
We organize our conservation work into a number of strategic campaign areas, all of which are designed to prevent extinction, recover degraded natural landscapes, grow public and political support for conservation, and preserve our region’s quality of life through the protection of our open spaces, iconic wildlife, and abundant natural resources.
Biodiversity Information Program
Through our Biodiversity Information Program we provide critical tools and resources to citizen groups and activists across the region to increase the effectiveness of their efforts.
Climate Change
We work to protect endangered plants and wildlife of the Southern Rockies from the effects of climate change, one of the most significant threats to native biological diversity in our region as well as around the world.
Defending the Endangered Species Act
Center for Native Ecosystems is leading the effort in Colorado to defend and strengthen the Endangered Species Act, one of our country’s legacy environmental laws.
Dolores River Basin and Dominguez Canyons
Center for Native Ecosystems works closely with our coalition partners to protect these areas of western Colorado’s stunning canyon country. Home to an amazing diversity of species, the Dolores and Dominguez regions are also in the bulls-eye of exploding energy development in the region.
Energy
The escalating assault by oil and gas drilling corporations across the western United States remains one of the defining conservation battles of our time.
GIS/Conservation Mapping
Our expert geographers provide cutting-edge mapping and analysis technologies to help us plan and understand increasingly complex land use issues.
Habitat Connectivity
Through our Habitat Connectivity Program, we work to protect wildlife corridors across the Southern Rockies, ensuring that species are able to move across the landscape as needed in response to changing climatic and habitat conditions.
Linking Colorado’s Landscapes
Linking Colorado’s Landscapes is a groundbreaking analysis and report for Colorado which identifies over 100 wildlife linkages across the state.
Regional Wildlife Corridor Review & Refinement Workshops
Colorado Regional Wildlife Corridor Review & Refinement Workshops Information
Background
- Linking Colorado’s Landscapes – A Statewide Assessment of Wildlife Linkages – click here for more information
- Making Connections for Wildlife – Creating Spatial Extents for Wildlife Linakges – click here for more information on the process *click here for maps of modeled corridors*
CDOW Northeast Region Wildlife Habitat & Linkages
Bighorn Sheep Habitat & Linkages, Land Ownership NE Region (pdf, 1.3 MB)
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Sagebrush Sea
The Sagebrush Sea is a vast expanse of sage-dominated canyon and range country found between the Rockies and the Pacific Coast mountain ranges. Through this campaign, we seek to protect stunning landscapes like Utah’s Uinta Basin and Colorado’s Vermillion Basin and Gunnison Valley.
Species Safety Net
This program captures Center for Native Ecosystems’ most fundamental responsibility: prevent extinction. Our Species Safety Net Campaign encompasses our work to protect imperiled species like Canada lynx, greenback cutthroat trout, and clay-loving wild buckwheat, among many others.
Wildlife Bridge at West Vail Pass
Colorado’s first vegetated wildlife overpasses, or wildlife bridge, is being proposed on I-70, just west of Vail Pass. A Wildlife Bridge at West Vail Pass was first recommended by the CDOT convened, interagency group, called “A Landscape Level Inventory of Valued Ecosystem Components” (ALIVE).
A project of national significance, the bridge will reconnect critical wildlife habitat that [...]