Dear Editor:

I write from my home overlooking the Mount Sneffels Range, once called home by the Tabeguache band of the Ute Nation since the 13th century. Where the west portion of the range is protected as wilderness, from the summit of Mount Sneffels to the east is not.

Specific and special reference here is to the Whitehouse Addition to the Mount Sneffels Wilderness as well as the entire CORE Act as introduced to the House and Senate on February second. By bill champions Representative Neguse an...