High Country Citizens' Alliance - Become a High Country Hero

Vision Statement

High Country Heroes are passionate and dedicated, multi-year leaders of High Country Citizens' Alliance's grassroots campaigns to protect, conserve and preserve the natural ecosystems of the Upper Gunnison Basin.

Our high elevation watershed is one of the largest, most biologically intact, and most threatened headwaters of the West's legendary Colorado River system. We believe this visionary duty to commit our personal resources to safeguarding the health and biodiversity of our basin's land, water, air and wildlife. We take seriously our responsibility to ensure that present and future generations thrive in an environmentally sustainable and healthy ecosystem.

High Country Heroes are participants in an essential leadership circle that provides HCCA with long-term financial stability to move quickly on critical issues. Country Heroes have chose to support HCCA as an environmental advocate because of its unsurpassed effectiveness for more than thirty years. The Heroes commitment represents a rare and rewarding opportunity to make a dramatic difference for the future of this place we all love.

We have chosen to support High Country Citizens' Alliance as our environmental advocate because of its unsurpassed effectiveness for more than thirty years.

Since 1977, High Country Citizens' Alliance successfully played a key role in:

- Fighting off efforts to create a massive, industrial molybdenum mine on Mt. Emmons, Crested butte's iconic western skyline overlooking the town's National Historic District.

- Helping to reduce proposed timber harvests in the Upper Gunnison River Basin;

- Stopping proposed trans-mountain water diversion projects that would have depleted our limited water supply;

- Creating the Fossil Ridge Wilderness Area and Oh Be Joyful Wilderness Area addition;

- Advocating for stringent road less area protection in the face of growing development pressures, including natural gas drilling;

- Protection efforts for threatened Gunnison Sage Grouse;

- Hosting our Sustainable Communities Symposium;

- Legally pursuing and winning water rights for Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park;

- Pressuring our region's electricity providers to abandon coal fired power and develop renewable resources.

High Country Heroes Participation Levels and Benefits

$100 A YEAR
Recognition of your environmental leadership on HCCA's website and a High Country Heroes periodic electronic newsletter.

$250 A YEAR
Recognition, periodic electronic newsletter, and one set of Save Red Lady prayer flags.

$500 A YEAR
Recognition, periodic electronic newsletter, Save Red Lady prayer flags and a one-year HCCA gift membership for a loved one.

$1,000 A YEAR
Recognition, periodic electronic newsletter, gift membership, Save Red Lady prayer flags and a fun and informative High Country Heroes contributor hike, guided by HCCA Board and staff members.

$5,000 A YEAR
Recognition, periodic electronic newsletter, gift membership, prayer flags, High Country Heroes hike and DVD of "Red Lady: The Battle for Your Mountains", a short film about the Red Lady mine threat by Jeremy Rubingh and Snow Lion Productions.

$10,000 A YEAR
Recognition, periodic electronic newsletter, gift membership, Save Red Lady prayer flags, High Country Heroes hike, "Red Lady: The Battle for Your Mountain" and a signed copy of A Colorado Autumn, a beautiful book of photographs by Colorado's master nature photographer, John Fielder.
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If you would like more information on the High Country Heroes campaign or you would like to become a member of the High Country Hero team please call Meghan at the HCCA Office. (970) 349-7104 ext. 3. or just send in the pledge form below to:

High Country Citizens' Alliance
P.O. Box 1066
Crested Butte, CO 81224

Click here to download the High Country Hero Pledge Form