Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc.

Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc., doing business as Colorado West Land Trust, is a non-profit organization registered to receive federal grant awards. It is a corporate entity structured as a non-profit organization. Colorado West Land Trust works to conserve land and natural resources in western Colorado.

Mesa County Land Conservancy Inc. has received federal grant awards for projects focused on enhancing public access to recreation lands, restoring floodplains and riparian areas, rehabilitating drought-affected agricultural areas, enhancing forest health, and mitigating wildfire risk in western Colorado. Through a cooperative agreement with the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Colorado Region, it received funding for enhancing public access to BLM recreation lands. As a sub-grantee of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, it has collaborated with landowners and local organizations to remove wildlife-unfriendly fencing, restore floodplain acres, install mesic restoration structures, remove invasive species, restore mesic habitat hydrology, and engage volunteers. Additionally, it has worked to restore riparian and upland habitat in the Little Dolores River Watershed by installing beaver dam analogue and Zeedyk structures, removing invasive Russian olive and tamarisk, restoring declining aspen groves, removing fencing, and reducing grazing intensity to benefit species like Gunnison sage grouse, mule deer, and elk.