Keep It Colorado has received $250,000 in funding to support the development of its Statewide Private Lands Conservation Plan. Investments include $175,000 from Great Outdoors Colorado’s Resilient Communities Program and $75,000 from the Colorado Water Conservation Board’s Water Plan Grant program.

Keep It Colorado has received $500,000 in grant funding from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO)’s Resilient Communities Program. The investment will enable Keep It Colorado to develop and administer a program to assist land trusts and landowners in covering the costs of transactions associated with conservation easements in 2021.

Keep It Colorado is developing the Statewide Private Lands Conservation Plan, a collaborative plan that rallies land trusts and partners around a unified vision for the future of private lands conservation in Colorado. Because 60 percent of lands in Colorado are privately owned, they account for a significant portion of the state that needs protection.

Keep It Colorado is offering the opportunity for partners and supporters to sponsor our member events. Our Sponsorship Kit 2021 is now available! Learn about the benefits of sponsoring and what events are coming up in 2021.

Want to know more about the role we play in conservation? Check out our video — Keep It Colorado: Creating a Colorado Where People, Lands, Waters and Wildlife Thrive.

We are proud to announce the publication of a report highlighting our coalition’s activities and accomplishments since we relaunched in 2019, as well as the conservation impacts of our members.

Keep It Colorado and the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust partnered with Colorado State University to conduct research and develop a tool that will enable conservation practitioners in Colorado to assess alternative ways of valuing conservation on private lands.

Keep It Colorado and the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust (CCALT) partnered with Colorado State University (CSU) to release a study that demonstrates the important economic impacts that potential future funding from the federal agricultural conservation easement program (ACEP) could have on the state of Colorado.

Keep It Colorado’s new program will help 12 land trusts use remote technologies – such as satellite and aerial imagery – to monitor conservation properties across the state as a safer, more efficient alternative to in-person monitoring.

Keep It Colorado has a fresh new logo, a refined mission statement and a new set of core values. We're excited to tell you about the changes.

We’ve received $166,666 in funding from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) and $125,000 from the Gates Family Foundation. GOCO’s investment is the first of three installments scheduled over three years, with total funds reaching $500,000.

This article is re-posted from the Conservation Futures Project. It announces the formation of Keep It Colorado by the Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts board of directors and the Conservation Futures Project steering committee.