Comments closed August 24
Stop expanded snowmaking and parking at Arapahoe Basin
U.S. Forest Service · White River National Forest, CO
- What
- Arapahoe Basin wants to remove water use limits and add major infrastructure on White River National Forest land.
- Where
- White River National Forest, CO
- How much
- A longstanding 25% cap on snowmaking water use could be permanently lifted, allowing Arapahoe Basin to draw far more water from the watershed.
- Decided
- Comments closed August 24, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from Forest Service comment page (CARA) ↗, read July 30, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the Forest Service project page ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the project page names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchThe first sentence of our What’s at risk read of the notice; the whole read is under Case.
- DecidedAugust 24, 2026, from Forest Service comment page (CARA), its “comments are requested through” date ↗. Read July 30, 2026. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 9, 2026.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.
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Affects public lands
Arapahoe Basin wants to remove water use limits and add major infrastructure on White River National Forest land.
What’s at risk
If this goes through
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
In the agency’s own words
Arapahoe Basin proposes to: Remove the 25 % withdrawal limitation from the 1999 A-Basin MDP-EIS and Record of Decision to allow expanded snowmaking coverage within its state law water rights. Install Remote Avalanche Control Systems. Add two new parking lots and construct a pedestrian overpass.
The groups on this fight
4 groups predicted likely to care in Colorado
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Colorado, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Rocky Mountain Wild
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Colorado BLM Lease Sale, Colorado: Joined the formal challenge to the January 2026 replacement lease sale and previously sued BLM over the Roan Plateau leases.
- San Juan Citizens Alliance
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado: Shaped the 2010 management plan, has fought oil and gas leasing decisions inside the monument for two decades, mobilized against the 2017 monument review, and states it continues to defend CANM.
- Thompson Divide Coalition
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Thompson Divide, Colorado: A conservation group working on Thompson Divide.
- WildEarth Guardians
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado: Named petitioner against the Uinta Basin Railway over habitat destruction in the basin.
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
Who signs it
The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.
The ground
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In court on this ground
No court case we track is over White River National Forest.
Who holds the vote
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