In an analysis released on the eve of National Public Lands Day, a Colorado environmental non-profit has issued a report listing what it calls the 10 most at-risk wild lands on the Western Slope.

Saying Colorado’s rivers, forests and open spaces are threatened by development, the list compiled by the Carbondale-based Wilderness Workshop includes the Upper Colorado River, the Homestake Valley near Red Cliff, the Crystal River south of Carbondale and the Thompson Divide, also near Carbondale. The detailed 28-page report is called “Wild for Good,” meaning forever, and is available on the Wilderness Workshop website .

“It’s looking at these landscapes that form the backbone of our way of life in Colorado — clean water, clean air, wildlife and our outdoor rec economy,” said Michael Gorman,

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