Order Your Yard Sign Today! And, show your support for a 100% Protected Hughes City Natural Area with low impact recreational use, and conservation of land and wildlife!

Please support the important grassroots effort to help volunteers Get Out The Vote (GOTV) for a Hughes Natural Area. With your financial contribution, Friends of Hughes will engage in voter education & outreach, and do what we can to make sure true Democracy prevails in November. Help us ensure that a Protected & Preserved Hughes wins in November!

Thank you for supporting true Democracy, Fort Collins! 💚

On November 4, 2025, Fort Collins voters will finally have their voices heard on whether to designate the publicly-owned Hughes land as an official preserved & protected City of Fort Collins Natural Area for all members of our community and for our local wildlife. 

We need volunteers to help us Get Out The Vote for the November 2025 grassroots citizen-driven ballot measure to Make Hughes A Natural Area! If you're interested in helping us, please fill out this form and we will contact you soon. Thank you!

Listen to voters’ voices in response to the question, “Why did you sign the petition to protect & preserve Hughes as a 100% City Natural Area?” Recorded over Memorial Day weekend, by the local podcast “Fort Collins Through Another Lens”.

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, out of public view, to grab a piece of the delicate Hughes ecosystem for themselves.

Don’t fall behind! 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.