To collaboratively help ...

• Maintain rural separators between towns to preserve community identities.

• Increase public opportunities for outdoor recreation, including completion of planned hiking and biking trail systems.

• Preserve wildlife and sensitive natural areas such as streams and wetlands.

• Preserve working farms and the heritage, lifestyle, scenery, and economic benefits they provide.

• Work only with willing landowners to preserve lands through permanent land preservation agreements or purchases.

• Foster a collaborative regional approach to land preservation in Southwest Weld County and leverage SWMD revenues with matching funds from government and other sources.