Rep. Suckla: The Dolores NCA and GORP aren’t collaborative acts—they’re a legislative ambush
By Larry Don Suckla | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice
I’ve spent most of my life in the saddle. I was born and raised in Southwest Colorado. I’ve worked the land, ranched cattle, and served my neighbors as both a County Commissioner and now your elected representative in the Colorado State House.
My family owns one of the largest ranches in the region, tens of thousands of acres built by my grandfather and worked by my father before me. Today, I still help run that ranch with my own children. It sits squarely inside the proposed boundaries of the Dolores River National Conservation Area. And nobody from the federal government or Senator Hickenlooper or Senator Bennet’s office ever asked us a single thing about it.
Not one phone call. Not one visit. Not even a letter.
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