COLORADO

The Wilderness Land Trust Reaches 200 Properties Conserved!

We continue to achieve success in these challenging times. Although the 2004 Federal Budget has been excised of the word wilderness, the steadfast strong support for wilderness remains unaffected. We are proud to have achieved the milestone of successfully preserving 200 parcels of land, beginning in 1992!

Inholdings Transferred in 2003

in Colorado...

• The Out West Placer A vital Trailhead near Crested Butte, Colorado, serving the Snowmass/Maroon Bells Wilderness Area.
  
• The Wyborg Claims Four Mining Claims in the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area east of Vail, Colorado, in an area where backcountry estates are prized by the privileged.

in California...

• The Goulard Parcel A remnant of a 19th century Railroad Section with recoverable minerals, located within the Mt. Shasta Wilderness Area
  
• The Lakeview Ranch A homestead wholly within the Trinity Alps Wilderness area that would most likely have been developed as a wilderness residence.

The Wilderness Land Trust has transferred 200 privately owned inholdings into public ownership, protected by wilderness designation. These properties will never be mined, built upon nor have the trees removed from them. Roads will not be built to them, vehicles will not travel to them. Lights from them will not illuminate the wilderness that surrounds them. Humans will continue to be only visitors to these now protected lands.