About the Chama Peak Land Alliance
The Chama Peak Land Alliance is an association of landowners working collaboratively to practice and promote sound land management in the southern San Juan Mountains of Colorado and northern New Mexico.
Mission: Our mission is to practice and promote conservation for the benefit of land, water, wildlife, and people.
Vision: We envision the watersheds of the San Juan River and Rio Chama as an interconnected system that thrives on good stewardship practices and cooperative management between private landowners, states, tribes and federal agencies.
Geography and Scope: CPLA focuses its efforts in the headwaters of the San Juan and Rio Chama watersheds, north of Abiquiu, New Mexico and south of Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Members of the Alliance represent a land area that ranges from 7,000 feet to over 12,000 feet elevation.
The mission of Chama Peak Land Alliance is to practice and promote conservation for the benefit of land, water, wildlife, and people. We envision the watersheds of the San Juan River and Rio Chama as an interconnected system that thrives on good stewardship practices and cooperative management between private landowners, states, tribes and federal agencies.
Solutions for the Alliance region
To address the challenges faced by the Alliance region we must identify strategic solutions that are as interconnected as the threats themselves. On-the-ground solutions driven by a big picture vision must serve to ensure that our natural resources continue to provide the water, timber, forage, recreation, and agricultural services our natural and human communities depend on.
1. Responsible Land Stewardship – Responsible land, water, and wildlife stewardship is the core of the Alliance mission. Guided by the best available science, good stewardship is achieved through knowledge sharing, coordination across borders, and investments of time, money, and commitment to ensure that natural resources are sustained into the future.
2. Cooperative Partnerships – The watersheds of the San Juan and Rio Chama are interconnected systems and face interconnected threats that do not recognize ownership boundaries. Our approach, while focused primarily on private lands, includes cooperative management and knowledge sharing with local, state, tribal and federal agencies and engagement with appropriate collaborative partnerships.
3. Ensure a Voice for Private Lands – The Chama Peak Land Alliance was founded, in part, to ensure that private landowners had a strong voice in a landscape dominated by public lands. Private lands form a critical link between public parcels and the management choices made by private landowners have an impact on natural resources and human communities region-wide.
Organization name
Chama Peak Land Alliance
2012
Tax id (EIN)
27-4506183
Category
Environment, Public & Societal Benefit, Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Education, Food, Agriculture & Nutrition
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
PO BOX 5701Abiquiu, NM, US, 87510
Pagosa Springs, CO, US, 81147
Chama, NM, US, 87520