Guest column: Defending Colorado’s public lands has us on our toes — we’ll keep fighting to protect what we love

Guest column: Defending Colorado’s public lands has us on our toes — we’ll keep fighting to protect what we love

Imagine pulling up to your favorite trailhead near Carbondale or in the White River National Forest only to find it closed — forever. The ridge you’ve skied every season? Fenced off. The singletrack where your kid learned to ride? Gone, paved over for a private development. It sounds unthinkable, but it nearly happened. Just last month, a proposal buried deep in a U.S. Senate budget bill would have forced the sale of up to 3.25 million acres of …