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July 8, 2024 – For Immediate Release Contact – Jon Hare, Advocacy Director 970-349-7104 The Forest Supervisor for the Grand Mesa,...

July 2, 2024 – For Immediate Release For more information and questions contact: Jon Hare, Advocacy Director at High Country Conservation...

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I am Red Lady #11. This means that back in 1988, I was already into my eleventh year of devotion to keeping Red Lady mine-free. I never thought it would take this long, but always believed we’d be triumphant in this David v. Goliath battle. Whether climbing/skiing Red Lady or just seeing her from my window, this iconic mountain has always been superimposed on and embedded into my life. Her presence and meaning to our community cannot be exaggerated. Red Lady embodies the beau

Glo moved to Crested Butte in 1975 from Fort Lauderdale, FL when only 500 people lived in the city's limits. At the time the first mine threat, AMAX, wanted to move 8,000 people into the town for the sole purpose to develop an open-pit mine that would effectively demolish the mountain we know today as Red Lady. With this shocking news Glo, and other devoted community members decided to take a stand through Red. Taking a stand through Red means “Always representing at any time

I was the 27th Red Lady back in 2004, I was in umpteen 4th of July parades and a few Flauschink parades over the last two decades. I made almost all of the Red Lady Balls up until I got cancer in 2021. When I was done with treatment which I did in Iowa, I came back for a visit in Crested Butte in October of 2021. My heart was filled up with Red Lady JOY when Mallika hosted a dance party for me in her front yard at the corner of 5th and Whiterock. So many Red Ladies showed up

There was inspiration from the minute I discovered CB. First as a visitor in 1979, later as part-time and then in 2012 full-time. Around 2010, Dickie Vyktoria Brown inspired me as a Guest Service rep for CBMR, with his love of helping others, I found the joy of caring for the cause of HCCA - to Save Red Lady from mining and I began wearing Red on Saturdays with him and talking about why. It became tradition to join the Fourth of July parades, to costume up, and to attend the

It has been one of the greatest honors of my life to be chosen as Red Lady #44.  During my reign, the Wheels of Crested Butte project was initiated. With HCCA and Mountain Earth as my partners, I dreamed a vision of dancing Red Ladies celebrating the beauty of the wild country that surrounds us. To emphasize the importance of protecting our precious wilderness, I enlisted the help of several other Red Lady artists in the execution of my vision. I'm very proud to have been inv

Earlier in April, Gunnison Country celebrated when the US Department of Interior signed the historic Mt. Emmons–Thompson Divide Mineral Withdrawal to remove the opportunity for new mining or oil and gas operations on over 220,000 acres of federal land in Western Colorado managed by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).  This is definitely a great reason for all of us who love public lands to celebrate, yet at High Country Conservation Advocat

On March 19th, the Town of Mt. Crested Butte voted to pass an outdoor landscaping code ordinance that will help our community grow with...

For more information contact: Julie Nania, Red Lady Program Director at High Country Conservation Advocates, Julie@hccacb.org,  (509)...

The push to end mining around Red Lady and the Thompson Divide gains momentum. Senator Bennet honors the Crested Butte community and...

High Country Conservation Advocates partnered with Colorado Parks & Wildlife and the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District for...

Thank you to our partners who came together to make this project possible: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) US Fish &...

Each May the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) enters into north-facing steep slopes all over the Upper Gunnison Basin to protect...

Following an epic winter in the Gunnison Valley, we are excited for the arrival of summer and all the glorious flowers that surely await...

At midnight on April 1, my soul sister and race partner Laura Yale and I will depart to Aspen in the regalia of the Red Ladies as we ski in this year’s Elk Mountains Grand Traverse. Mother nature permitting, we will ski 40 miles through the night and climb 6,800 vertical feet over the Continental Divide. We’ll battle weather, blisters, and our own physical limits. But most importantly, we are skiing to protect Mt. Emmons - also known as Red Lady - in our home town of Crested

Read Comments See attached documents to the comments below: Attachment A: HCCA LEX Comments Attachment B: Acid Mine Drainage Attachment...

In early October Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland initiated an administrative withdrawal  process for the Thompson Divide and lands...