The Alliance’s Wild San Juan Goals
Colorado’s San Juan Mountains are the wildest vestige of the Southern Rockies, the final frontier of the original West. More roads, dams, logging, oil and gas wells, motorized recreation, and intensive resorts threaten the basic fabric of our wild mountains and the communities within them.

The Plan is also endorsed by the Sierra Club, Weminuche Group, Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project, Colorado Environmental Coalition, Colorado Mountain Club, San Juan Audubon Society.


Our citizens plan for the Wild San Juans aims to protect and restore more than 2-million-acres of wild habitat in the San Juan Mountains. The primary goals:

  • To protect large regions of wild habitat
  • Secure the landscape corridors that interconnect them
  • Return native species like lynx, wolverine, and grizzly;
  • Promote sustainable local communities with economies benefiting from wildlands and wildlife protection and restoration

The Citizens Plan for the Wild San Juans presents the entire area as one region, with wilderness, cultural resource areas, restoration areas, non-motorized, and motorized use and other areas designated. Click on the map to display a larger map with more detail about each area.

Proposed Wilderness Areas and Research Natural Areas

Fish Creek
Hermosa
Bear Creek Landscape Corridor
HD Mountains
San Miguel
Snaggletooth
Stoner Mesa
Storm Peak
Treasure Mountain
Archuleta Creek RNA

Existing Wilderness Areas
Weminuche
South San Juans
Lizard Head
Piedra

Key Landscape Corridors
East Fork
Rio Blanco Corridor
Mosca Corridor
Coalbank/Molas Corridor
Lizard Head Pass Corridor
Groundhog Corridor

     
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