Make 100% of Hughes a City Natural Area!
Because once it’s gone, it’s gone forever.
The most unifying, inclusive, protective, and funded use for Hughes is as a designated City Natural Area. A Hughes Natural Area would serve the community as a LOW-IMPACT multiuse designation (multiple low-impact recreational uses, while conserving diminishing wildlife habitat and migration routes).
1. ZONE ✅ 2. ACQUIRE✅ 3. PROTECT
“Voters’ Voices” from the podcast “Fort Collins Through Another Lens”
Listen to voters’ voices in response to the question, “Why did you sign the petition to protect & preserve Hughes as a Natural Area?”
Recorded over Memorial Day Weekend.
🌲🌲🌲 WHERE TO SIGN the Hughes Natural Area Petition! 🌲🌲🌲
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WHERE TO SIGN!
Please see our Daily Where to Sign page to find a petition signing location. This page is updated daily and frequently! Please check it often if you’re looking for a place to sign the petition.
If you have challenges with mobility or otherwise can’t come to us, a volunteer will happily bring the petition to you. Please contact us here.
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Print & Distribute Flyers to Spread the Word
Spread the word to your neck of the woods by printing and and distributing flyers!
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Circulate A Petition Or Volunteer However You Can!
We Can’t Do This Without YOU!
Please complete our Volunteer sign-up form to volunteer with our Grassroots Movement. We need signature collectors urgently, but we would love for you to join us in whatever capacity you you can. We simply can’t do this without you. Join us to protect and preserve Hughes as a 100% City Natural Area! Thank you! -
Read Our News Page
Stay up to date on the latest Hughes news as we work to protect the publicly-owned open space as a Natural Area, so that ALL members of our community may access and enjoy it freely.
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Make a Donation!
Please contribute to conserve Hughes for our community, future generations, and our wildlife that inhabit the site.
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Listen to the Podcast
In this Hughes episode, a community organizer discusses some of the questions & concerns around the experimental Civic Assembly process with podcast host, Trish Babbitt.
Also discussed are the high-intensity uses that two monied special interest groups have been pushing for, behind the scenes, to try to get a piece of the delicate Hughes ecosystem for themselves.
Sierra Club Poudre Canyon Group on a 100% Hughes Natural Area, March 2023:
“Fort Collins’ population is anticipated to grow by at least another 70,000+ people in the next 50 years. As our population grows and places greater usage demands on our City’s natural areas, one of the best ways to protect the tax-payer investments in our Natural Areas is to keep them undisturbed and to seize once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to extend our existing Natural Areas.”
