Help Chelsea Protect the West

I’m raising funds for Western Resource Advocates (WRA) this Colorado Gives Day because I believe the West deserves a healthy future.

WRA works across seven Interior West states — including Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah — to protect what makes this region so special. They focus on three core areas that shape the West’s future:

• ⚡Accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels and cutting climate pollution.
• 🌊Ensuring the Colorado River and waterways across the West can sustain people and nature.
• 🌲Conserving the landscapes, habitat, and wildlife that make the region unique.

If not for WRA and the work that we do to help cities save water, communities in Colorado would continue to plant unused high water use grass, like Kentucky bluegrass, which uses twice the water that our climate provides each year. This year, I helped pass HB25-1113 at the Colorado state legislature, which requires cities to prohibit planting unused high water use grass in new multi-family residential buildings, and to limit high water use turf in some way in new residential developments beginning in 2028. This bill, which stacks on requirements WRA helped pass to limit turf at new non-residential buildings in 2024, will help our communities save large amounts of water. This can go to help protect our rivers and streams and help communities be more resilient in the face of increasing drought.