North Rim Landscape

The vision of the North Rim Landscape Strategy (NRLS) workgroup is to work collaboratively at a landscape scale to build a shared science and knowledge base to inform decision-making across jurisdictional boundaries and to develop strategies for land use management. The NRLS workgroup seeks to move beyond project-by-project and agency-by-agency management of the landscape and develop a collaborative landscape level strategy.

Located in southwestern Colorado, the NRLS Area is approximately 220,000 acres in size. The Gunnison River, running through the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and the Gunnison Gorge NCA, serves as the southern and western boundary of the NRLS area. The northern boundary follows the Smith Fork drainage. The eastern boundary follows the West Elk Wilderness boundary. The NRLS area is divided among three counties: Delta, Montrose, and Gunnison and is near the communities of Crawford, Hotchkiss, Montrose, Olathe, and Delta.

The purpose of the North Rim Landscape Strategy Document is to make broad recommendations for the management of the area while operating under an adaptive management strategy that allows for revisions based on new information. This document will serve as a guide for land management agency administrators, resource professionals, county planners, local private land owners, and the interested public for both short and long term planning at the landscape scale and as a resource in future site-specific project planning.

The key stakeholders of the North Rim Landscape Strategy workgroup are:

Black Canyon Audubon Society
Black Canyon Land Trust
Bureau of Land Management –Uncompahgre Field Office and Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area
Colorado Division of Wildlife
Crawford Sage Grouse Working Group
Grazing Permittees
Local Private Landowners
National Park Service –Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Natural Resources Conservation Service, Delta Conservation District
Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture –Gunnison National Forest, Paonia Ranger District
U.S. Geological Survey
Western Area Power Administration
Interested Members of the Public
Uncompahgre Partnership

To learn more about the NRLS Workgroup, visit their website at: www.northrimlandscapestrategy.org.

View from the Smith Fork Way trail


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