Colorado's Outdoor Strategy is a regionally-rooted, statewide vision that elevates common goals, amplifies regionally rooted efforts, provides data and tools to inform local decision making, and advances coordinated, statewide strategies and funding for conservation, outdoor recreation, and climate resilience The Strategy requires coordination and alignment between a wide variety of stakeholders and the planning documents that guide their actions and objectives This planning document analysis supports efforts to align the COS with other planning efforts statewide., State agencies involved in addition to Colorado Parks and Wildlife: Great Outdoors Colorado, Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Colorado Governor's Office. Consulting organizations: Keystone Policy Center, Colorado Natural Heritage Program, SE Group, GFM/Center Table, University of Colorado Boulder, Mending Mountains Collective., Includes bibliographical references., Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed May 2025)
Colorado's natural and working lands (NWL) include agricultural croplands and rangelands, grasslands, shrublands, forests, urban greenspaces, wetlands, and riparian areas. NWL are both sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution, including emissions from wildfires and agricultural and forestry operations, and act as carbon sinks by holding or sequestering carbon in plants and soils. Colorado's GHG Pollution Reduction Roadmap sets a target of reducing emissions (or increasing sequestration) on NWL by 1.0 million metric tons (MMT) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) by 2030 from a 2005 baseline, specifically from agricultural lands. This strategic plan presents priority strategies, with details on implementation provided in each respective section of this report., State agencies involved in creating the document: Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Colorado Department of Agriculture, Colorado State Forest Service, Colorado Natural Heritage Program, and Colorado Water Conservation Board., Online resource; title from PDF cover (viewed July 2025)
Collaborating on Colorado's water future -- Colorado's legal and institutional setting -- Overview of each basin -- Water supply -- Water demands -- Water supply management -- Water resource management and protection -- Interbasin projects and agreements -- Alignment of state resources and policies -- Critical action plan -- Updating Colorado's Water Plan -- Appendix A. Executive Order D2013-005 -- Appendix B. How other states have worked to meet their gap -- Appendix C. Instream flow and natural lake level examples -- Appendix D. Existent watershed plans in Colorado -- Appendix E. Source water protection plans in Colorado -- Appendix F. Summary of outreach, education, and public engagement activities completed during development of Colorado's Water Plan -- Appendix G. Organizations the CWCB met with while developing Colorado's Water Plan -- Appendix H. Summary of actions in Colorado's Water Plan., Includes bibliographical references., Print version record.
