Montrose Commissioner Pond: Why I’m Drawing the Line and Standing Against Federal Land Grabs
The views expressed here are my own and do not represent an official action or position of the Montrose Board of County Commissioners.
I was appointed to represent the people of District 3 in Montrose County, and I took an oath to uphold the Constitution. That includes defending our land, our rights, and our way of life here in Western Colorado.
In recent months, there’s been a coordinated push to place more of Colorado under federal control. We already fought back against the proposed Dolores National Monument, a 500,000-acre land grab, and we won.
Then came a 68,000 acre National Conservation Area proposal in Mesa and Montrose Counties. We stood our ground again and stopped it.
But now we’re facing two more massive federal designations.