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ap: Bill to protect the Dolores River leaves out critical land in Montrose and Mesa counties

Using a national monument desigation could protect the land

Scott Braden, a wilderness advocate with Conservation Colorado, drinks his morning coffee and reads a magazine at his camp next to the Dolores River on May 22, 2017. (Photo by Lindsay Pierce/The Denver Post)
Scott Braden, a wilderness advocate with Conservation Colorado, drinks his morning coffee and reads a magazine at his camp next to the Dolores River on May 22, 2017. (Photo by Lindsay Pierce/The Denver Post)
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The legislation to protect the Dolores River leaves out the canyons in Mesa and Montrose counties, an area that contains the largest and most biodiverse contiguous swath of unprotected public lands in Colorado.
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