Dear Editor:

Sen. Cory Gardner recently co-sponsored the Great Outdoors Bill to help deal with the maintenance backlog in our National Parks and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund. The bill passed the Senate 73-25.

I commend him but with serious reservations! Vanessa Harmoush of Rocky Mountain Values stated, and I quote: “It almost feels like it is being used as a prop to give Gardner a win because he hasn’t been a great advocate for public lands and conservation over the la...