1313 Sherman Street, Room 718

Denver, CO 80203

303-866-3311 or 800-536-5308  

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) manages and conserves Colorado’s natural resources and works to limit the impacts of climate change while also helping communities, ecosystems, and wildlife adapt to our warming planet.

Colorado Parks & Wildlife (CPW)
Understanding that climate change has the potential to severely disrupt ecosystems and wildlife, CPW works to protect Colorado’s sensitive species and habitats from such climate driven impacts as extreme weather events, flooding, drought, and disease.

Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB)
As the state’s leading water policy agency, CWCB role includes managing the state’s Water Plan, which aims to reduce drought impacts, support projects mitigating post-wildfire watershed damage from flooding and landslides, provide guidance on Colorado River water scarcity challenges, and oversee cloud-seeding efforts to support snowpack levels. 

Colorado State Forest Service
The Colorado State Forest Service is the lead state agency on forest management and wildfire risk mitigation. Forests and trees play a critical part in the fight against climate change through absorbing and storing carbon from the atmosphere which can be enhanced by adaptive forest management and wood products utilization. In the absence of adaptive forest management, naturally occurring wildfires can increase in extent and severity, which increases greenhouse gas emissions. The CSFS plays a key role in restoring our forests’ health through addressing increasing climate-related outbreaks of insects and diseases and reducing the impact of larger wildfires that damage forested lands and watersheds.

Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) 
The ECMC regulates the development and production of oil and gas, deep geothermal resources, the capture and sequestration of carbon, and the underground storage of natural gas in a manner that protects public health, safety, welfare, the environment and wildlife resources.

State Land Board
The State Land Board is the steward for Colorado’s 2.8 million acres of trust land. As an important way to fight climate change, the board is committed to expanding renewable energy generation on state lands.