Fitzwilliams pleads for bipartisan vision for managing the nation’s public lands

Fitzwilliams pleads for bipartisan vision for managing the nation’s public lands

In the midst of a record-low snow year and ongoing and brutal drought, former White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams saw the federal agencies that oversee vast swaths of publicly owned land in Colorado decimated by arbitrary and capricious staff cuts in 2025. “Instead of making our communities more safe and our resources more protected, we created instability and fear,” Fitzwilliams told a crowd at the EagleVail Pavilion gathe…