Yesterday the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act was signed into law. This designates roughly 310,000 acres of new wilderness in Colorado and 2 million acres nationwide. The new wilderness areas in Colorado are the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness (250,000 acres) and the Dominguez Canyons Wilderness (60,000 acres) which forms the heart of the new Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area (210,000 acres total).
As a nature photographer and wilderness fan, I am happy to see these lands protected for future generations.
In a few weeks, I will return to the Dominguez Canyons for a 3-day backpack trip to explore some areas of the newly designated wilderness. And I am really looking forward it!
