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Up one levelBlack Hills
Isolated from its sibling range the Rocky Mountains, and abandoned by receding glaciers 10,000 years ago, the Black Hills harbor incredible biological diversity, including numerous at-risk ecosystems and imperiled endemic species.
Colorado's Front Range
We protect diminishing streamside habitat, open space, and the region’s most imperiled plants and wildlife, often in the face of rampant growth and irresponsible development.
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.
Endangered Native Plants
We highlight the tenuous status of native plants across the region and draw attention to the vital roles they play in maintaining healthy ecosystems.
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.
Gunnison Basin
We work in collaboration with other conservation partners to protect and recover the Gunnison sage grouse and other at-risk species.
Heart of the West
Our work is guided by the Heart of the West Conservation Plan for a biology-based, strategically designed network of linked core habitats and management prescriptions for protecting vital habitats.
Lynx Conservation
Our ambitious, collaborative effort to recover the Canada lynx remains the centerpiece of our work in the Southern Rocky Mountains.
Native Cutthroat Trout
All three of our region's surviving native cutthroat trout species are threatened with extinction. The Colorado River cutthroat is down to about 5% of its historic habitat, the Rio Grande cutthroat has been reduced to roughly 1%, and no more than 17 populations of pure greenback are thought to survive.
Prairie Conservation
We focus our prairie conservation efforts on the Central Great Plains region, including the short-grass prairies of eastern Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kansas, the Sandhills of Nebraska, and northward through the Thunder River Basin and into the western Dakotas.
Red Desert
The Red Desert of central Wyoming is a largely unknown land of stunning rainbow colored hoodoos, towering buttes, swirling sand dunes, vast open spaces and prehistoric rock art which Native peoples have left in the form of petroglyphs and tipi rings that outline ancient campsites.
Roan Plateau
The Colorado Natural Heritage Program considers the Roan Plateau to be one of four areas in the state with the greatest concentration of biodiversity, on par with Mesa Verde National Park, Dinosaur National Monument, and Colorado National Monument.
Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge
Center for Native Ecosystems strongly embraces the restoration and recovery of healthy ecosystems, and Rocky Flats provides an inspiring example of these goals coming to fruition.
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.
South Park Conservation
Center for Native Ecosystems is working to protect Porter feathergrass and other rare plants on both public and private lands in the South Park/Mosquito Range area.
South Shale Ridge
Located in western Colorado near the town of DeBeque, South Shale Ridge's spectacular geological formations twist through miles of canyons and rugged desert landscape.
Southern Rockies Healthy Forests
We work to ensure the long-term health of the Southern Rockies forest ecosystems.
Species Safety Net
This program captures Center for Native Ecosystems’ most fundamental responsibility: prevent extinction.
Uinta Basin
Although the Bureau of Land Management publicly refers to this area as "Utah's oil patch," there are many other resources worth protecting in the Uinta Basin.
Vermillion Basin/Northwest Colorado
Proposed for wilderness because of its expansive colorful badlands, rugged canyons, spectacular scenery, and other wilderness qualities, the area is also home to significant archeological sites and numerous at-risk native species.
Western Endangered Mollusks
Beautiful, intricate, and as diverse as our own population, mollusks in the western United States are an often overlooked yet indispensable group of animals.
Wild Buckwheat Conservation Fund
Center for Native Ecosystems and many of our members and supporters joined a diverse coalition in purchasing a former ranch property near Montrose, Colorado, that shelters the largest and most important population of the endangered clay-loving wild buckwheat. Together, we have saved a native wildflower and transformed the Wacker Ranch Natural Area into a rare plant preserve and educational asset for the surrounding communities.
Climate Change Campaign
In the coming decades, global warming will pose a serious threat to endangered species and, more generally, to biological diversity in our region. Changes brought about by rapid shifts in climate threaten every native ecosystem in the West, as they will threaten almost every corner of the planet. Center for Native Ecosystems works in a variety of ways to reduce our region's contribution to the greenhouse gas emission problem and to anticipate and mitigate -- to the extent possible -- the effects of climate change on native species and ecosystems.
Sustainable Agriculture Campaign - Working with Landowners on Endangered Species Issues
Since 2006 Center for Native Ecosystems has worked with ranchers, farmers, agriculture groups, hunting/fishing interests and conservationists to improve programs that assist landowners in conserving habitat for threatened and endangered species on private land - where the majority of habitat for at-risk species exists.
