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“Judge ends ‘Village at Wolf Creek’ land exchange.” Aedan Hannon, The Durango Herald, December 16, 2021. “5 Organizations That Protect & Preserve Community Resources.” Wiki.ezvid.com, May 15, 2020. “Conservation groups challenge road access for Village at Wolf Creek.” Jonathan Romeo, The Durango Herald, May 28, 2019. “USFS Approves Road to Read more…

Wolf Creek Pass

PRESS RELEASE: Conservation Groups Challenge Forest Service Again Over Approval of Village at Wolf Creek

For Immediate Release: May 28, 2019 Denver, CO – Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today seeking to invalidate the Rio Grande National Forest’s approval of the massive Village at Wolf Creek development by providing expanded access across National Forest System lands to a private parcel created by a controversial 1980s Read more…

Wolf Creek Access Project Administrative Objection + Exhibits

On January 5th, 2015, the Friends of Wolf Creek Coalition filed a 98 page Objection to the Forest Service’s Final Environmental Impact Statement and Draft Record of Decision for the “Wolf Creek Access Project.”  We allege that the Forest Service’s decision to approve a land exchange that would facilitate the Read more…

Rendering of the Village at Wolf Creek

Hey, Red. Wolf Creek is troubling me.

By: Dan Olson, San Juan Citizens Alliance, The Durango Herald December 10, 2014 Dear Red, How are things back in Texas? Peggy Sue and I are vacationing in Durango. Unseasonably warm, thank goodness. If this is global warming, you can officially call me a fan. Buying any sports franchises this Read more…

Rendering of the Village at Wolf Creek

“Village” Goes Back to the Drawing Board Entirely New Development Proposal in the Works

In what we hope will be the final chapter in McCombs’ proposed 10,000-person “Village” at Wolf Creek debacle, the Rio Grande National Forest officially cancelled the new EIS for the project on February 12, 2009. Ten years after Colorado Wild’s original objection to a proposed access route through the ski Read more…