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Prediction: This Popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Will Fall Hard in 2025No. 2 Ohio State takes control in the 2nd half and runs over No. 5 Indiana 38-15 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Will Howard passed for two touchdowns and rushed for another, TreVeyon Henderson ran for a score and No. 2 Ohio State beat previously undefeated No. 5 Indiana 38-15. All Ohio State has to do now is beat Michigan at home next Saturday and it will earn a return to the Big Ten championship game for the first time since 2020 and get a rematch with No. 1 Oregon. The Ducks beat Ohio State 32-31 in a wild one back on Oct. 12. Man City routed 4-0 by Tottenham in fifth-straight defeat as crisis deepens for Pep Guardiola What started as an evening of celebration for Manchester City ended with the four-time defending Premier League champion falling to a fifth-straight loss in all competitions and facing a deepening crisis in a season that is threatening to unravel. A 4-0 defeat to Tottenham left City five points behind league leader Liverpool, having played a game more. Two goals from James Maddison inside 20 minutes at the Etihad Stadium stunned the home crowd. Pedro Porro scored a third for Tottenham after halftime. Brennan Johnson added a fourth in the third minute of stoppage time. City manager Pep Guardiola signed a two-year contract extension this week. Chelsea, Arsenal and Brighton all won and closed the gap on Liverpool to six points. Florida knocks No. 9 Ole Miss out of College Football Playoff contention, 24-17 in the Swamp GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — DJ Lagway threw two touchdown passes, Montrell Johnson ran for 127 yards and a score, and Florida upset No. 9 Mississippi 24-17 on Saturday to knock the Rebels out of College Football Playoff contention. The Gators beat ranked teams in consecutive weeks for the first time since 2008 and became bowl eligible. The late-season spurt provided another vote of confidence for coach Billy Napier, who is expected back for a fourth season. Ole Miss lost for the first time in four games and surely will drop out of the 12-team playoff picture. Jennings has 3 TDs as No. 13 SMU routs Virginia 33-7 to clinch a spot in the ACC title game CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Kevin Jennings threw for a career-high 323 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another, and No. 13 SMU clinched a spot in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game by routing Virginia 33-7. Isaiah Smith and Jared Harrison-Hunte each had two sacks to help the Mustangs extend their winning streak to eight. They would earn an automatic bid into the expanded College Football Playoff by beating 11th-ranked Miami or 17th-ranked Clemson in the ACC title game on Dec. 7 in Charlotte, North Carolina. UVa must beat rival Virginia Tech next week to become bowl eligible. No. 11 Miami pulls away late to beat Wake Forest 42-14 and move one win from the ACC title game MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Cam Ward passed for 280 yards and threw two touchdowns to Jacolby George on another record-breaking day, Mishael Powell ran an interception back 76 yards for a touchdown and No. 11 Miami pulled away late to beat Wake Forest 42-14. The 10-1 Hurricanes can clinch a berth in the ACC title game with a win at Syracuse next weekend. Ward completed 27 of 38 passes, plus ran for a score. Demond Claiborne had a 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown for 4-7 Wake Forest. No. 24 Illinois stuns Rutgers on Bryant's 40-yard TD reception with 4 seconds left PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Luke Altmyer found Pat Bryant for a catch-and-run, 40-yard touchdown pass with 4 seconds left, sending No. 24 Illinois to a wild 38-31 victory over Rutgers. Illinois was down 31-30 when it sent long kicker Ethan Moczulski out for a desperation 58-yard field goal with 14 seconds to go. Rutgers coach Greg Schiano then called for a timeout right before Moczulski’s attempt was wide left and about 15 yards short. After the missed field goal was waved off by the timeout, Illinois coach Bret Bielema sent his offense back on the field. Altmyer hit Bryant on an in cut on the left side at the 22, and he continued across the field and scored untouched. Andy Murray will coach Novak Djokovic through the Australian Open Recently retired Andy Murray will team up with Novak Djokovic, working with him as a coach through the Australian Open in January. Murray’s representatives put out statements from both players on Saturday. Djokovic is a 24-time Grand Slam champion who has spent more weeks at No. 1 than any other player in tennis history. Murray won three major trophies and two Olympic singles gold medals who finished 2016 atop the ATP rankings. He retired as a player after the Paris Summer Games in August. Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettini lift Italy past Australia and back to the Davis Cup final MALAGA, Spain (AP) — Top-ranked Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettini won their singles matches to lift defending champion Italy past Australia 2-0 and back into the Davis Cup final. Sinner extended his tour-level winning streak to 24 sets in a row by beating No. 9 Alex de Minaur 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday on an indoor hard court in Malaga, Spain. That came after Berrettini came back to defeat Thanasi Kokkinakis 6-7 (6), 6-3, 7-5. Italy will meet first-time finalist Netherlands on Sunday for the title. The Dutch followed up their victory over Rafael Nadal and Spain in the quarterfinals by eliminating Germany on Friday. Argentina's Racing wins its first Copa Sudamericana championship by beating Brazil's Cruzeiro 3-1 ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Gaston Martirena and Adrian Martinez scored first-half goals as Argentina’s Racing won its first Copa Sudamericana championship by beating Brazil’s Cruzeiro 3-1 in the final on Saturday. Martirena opened the scoring in the 15th minute and Martinez added a goal five minutes later to help give “La Academia” its first international title since 1988 when it won the Supercopa Sudamericana. Roger Martinez sealed the victory with a goal in the 90th. “Maravilla” Martinez scored 10 goals in 13 matches and finished as the top scorer in the competition. Kaio Jorge scored in the 52nd for Cruzeiro. Formula 1 expected to expand grid to 11 teams as early as next week for Cadillac to enter in 2026 LAS VEGAS (AP) — Formula 1 is expected to approve grid expansion for an 11th team originally started by Michael Andretti as early as next week. The team will be called Cadillac F1 and powered by Ferrari engines when it enters the sport in 2026. General Motors is expected to complete its own Cadillac power unit ahead of the 2028 season. Multiple industry insiders spoke to The Associated Press about the grid expansion on condition of anonymity because an announcement ahead of Saturday night’s Las Vegas Grand Prix could potentially steal the spotlight from the showcase event on the F1 calendar.
Manchester City's crisis continued with a 2-0 defeat away to Juventus in the Champions League on Wednesday, while Pep Guardiola's old club Barcelona beat Borussia Dortmund to clinch a spot in the knockout stage of Europe's elite club competition. Arsenal, AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Lille, Feyenoord and Stuttgart were also victorious, but City's latest loss in a miserable run will dominate the headlines. The 2023 European champions succumbed in Turin as Dusan Vlahovic put Juventus ahead early in the second half when goalkeeper Ederson was unable to keep out his header. Ilkay Gundogan was denied an equaliser by a fine Michele Di Gregorio save, before Weston McKennie made it 2-0 with a fine acrobatic finish in the 75th minute. The result leaves Juventus on 11 points with two games left, a tally that is expected to be enough to guarantee them at least a place in the knockout phase play-offs. City, meanwhile, have now won just once in 10 in all competitions, with seven defeats in that time. With just eight points, they currently sit 22nd in the standings, in which the top 24 advance to the knockouts. Their next game will be crucial, as they travel to a Paris Saint-Germain side who sit a point beneath Guardiola's men. "We have to get points, we'll go to Paris to try and do that and the same goes for the final match at home (to Club Brugge)," Guardiola told Amazon Prime in Italy. Barcelona are second in the standings with 15 points, behind only Liverpool, after beating Dortmund 3-2 in a thriller in Germany, with Ferran Torres their hero. Raphinha fired Barca ahead with his 17th goal of the season, early in a remarkable second half. Serhou Guirassy equalised with a penalty on the hour mark, but substitute Torres put Barca back in front on 75 minutes, converting the loose ball after Fermin Lopez's shot was saved. Guirassy scored again for a quick equaliser, only for Torres to strike once more and win the game for Barca with five minutes left. Barcelona's tally leaves them, like Liverpool, ideally placed to finish in the top eight, which means direct progress to the last 16 without having to go through the play-offs. Arsenal are third in the standings on 13 points after easing to a 3-0 win over Monaco in London. Bukayo Saka scored twice, putting the Gunners ahead in the first half and making it 2-0 on 78 minutes as the hosts pounced on disastrous Monaco defending. Saka then turned provider for the late third, with substitute Kai Havertz credited with the final touch. Mikel Arteta's team are one of six sides on 13 points, with Lille also on that tally after edging Sturm Graz 3-2 in France thanks to a fine late winner from Hakon Haraldsson. Lille were 2-0 up through Osame Sahraoui and Mitchel Bakker, only for goals by Otar Kiteishvili and Mika Biereth to bring the Austrian champions back level. However, Icelandic midfielder Haraldsson secured Lille's fourth win of the campaign. Atletico eased to a 3-1 victory over Slovan Bratislava, with Antoine Griezmann scoring twice after Julian Alvarez had opened the scoring with an excellent strike. David Strelec pulled one back for the Slovaks, who are one of three teams already eliminated having lost six games out of six. The others are RB Leipzig and Young Boys. Milan defeated Red Star Belgrade 2-1 at San Siro with Tammy Abraham grabbing the winner three minutes from time. Rafael Leao had put Milan ahead only for Nemanja Radonjic to equalise for the Serbian side, who have lost five of their six games and are surely heading out. Benfica edged closer to a play-off spot with a 0-0 draw at home to Bologna of Italy, who have scored just one goal in six games and will go no further. Feyenoord stayed on course to go through after beating Sparta Prague 4-2 in Rotterdam, with Gernot Trauner, Igor Paixao, Anis Hadj Moussa and Santiago Gimenez netting their goals. Stuttgart kept alive their hopes of progress by coming from behind to beat Young Boys 5-1. Lukasz Lakomy put Young Boys ahead but Angelo Stiller levelled before Enzo Millot, Chris Fuehrich, Josha Vagnoman and Yannik Keitel all scored in the second half. The next round of Champions League games is scheduled for January 21 and 22, with the league phase concluding the following week. as/jcSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol avoided an opposition-led attempt to impeach him over his short-lived imposition of martial law , as most ruling party lawmakers boycotted a parliamentary vote Saturday to deny a two-thirds majority needed to suspend his presidential powers. The scrapping of the motion is expected to intensify public protests calling for Yoon’s ouster and deepen political chaos in South Korea, with a survey suggesting a majority of South Koreans support the president’s impeachment. Yoon’s martial law declaration drew criticism from his own ruling conservative People Power Party, but it is also determined to oppose Yoon’s impeachment apparently because it fears losing the presidency to liberals. After the motion fell through, members of the main liberal opposition Democratic Party rallied inside the National Assembly, chanting slogans calling for Yoon's impeachment or resignation. The party's floor leader, Park Chan-dae, said it will soon prepare for a new impeachment motion. “We'll surely impeach Yoon Suk Yeol, who is the greatest risk to Republic of Korea,” party leader Lee Jae-myung said. “We'll surely bring back this country to normal before Christmas Day or year's end.” Despite escaping the impeachment attempt, many experts worry Yoon won’t be able to serve out his remaining 2 1⁄2 years in office. They say some ruling party lawmakers could eventually join opposition parties’ efforts to impeach Yoon if public demands for it grow further. On Saturday, tens of thousands of people densely packed several blocks of roads leading up to the National Assembly, waving banners, shouting slogans and dancing. Protesters also gathered in front of PPP’s headquarters near the Assembly, angrily shouting for its lawmakers to vote to impeach Yoon. A smaller crowd of Yoon’s supporters, which still seemed to be in the thousands, rallied in separate streets in Seoul, decrying the impeachment attempt they saw as unconstitutional. Impeaching Yoon required support from two-thirds of the National Assembly, or 200 of its 300 members. The Democratic Party and five other small opposition parties, which filed the motion, have 192 seats combined. But only three lawmakers from PPP participated in the vote. The motion was scrapped without ballot counting because the number of votes didn’t reach 200. National Assembly Speaker Woo Won Shik called the result “very regrettable” and an embarrassing moment for the country’s democracy that has been closely watched by the world. “The failure to hold a qualified vote on this matter means we were not even able to exercise the democratic procedure of deciding on a critical national issue,” he said. Opposition parties could submit a new impeachment motion after a new parliamentary session opens next Wednesday. If Yoon is impeached, his powers will be suspended until the Constitutional Court decides whether to remove him from office. If he is removed, an election to replace him must take place within 60 days. Earlier Saturday, Yoon issued a public apology over the martial law decree, saying he won’t shirk legal or political responsibility for the declaration and promising not to make another attempt to impose martial law. He said would leave it to his party to chart a course through the country’s political turmoil, “including matters related to my term in office.” “The declaration of this martial law was made out of my desperation. But in the course of its implementation, it caused anxiety and inconveniences to the public. I feel very sorry over that and truly apologize to the people who must have been shocked a lot,” Yoon said. Since taking office in 2022, Yoon has struggled to push his agenda through an opposition-controlled parliament and grappled with low approval ratings amid scandals involving himself and his wife. In his martial law announcement on Tuesday night, Yoon called parliament a “den of criminals” bogging down state affairs and vowed to eliminate “shameless North Korea followers and anti-state forces.” The turmoil resulting from Yoon’s bizarre and poorly-thought-out stunt has paralyzed South Korean politics and sparked alarm among key diplomatic partners like the U.S. and Japan. Tuesday night saw special forces troops encircling the parliament building and army helicopters hovering over it, but the military withdrew after the National Assembly unanimously voted to overturn the decree, forcing Yoon to lift it before daybreak Wednesday. The declaration of martial law was the first of its kind in more than 40 years in South Korea. Eighteen lawmakers from the ruling party voted to reject Yoon’s martial law decree along with opposition lawmakers. PPP later decided to oppose Yoon's impeachment motion. Yoon’s speech fueled speculation that he and his party may push for a constitutional amendment to shorten his term, instead of accepting impeachment, as a way to ease public anger over the marital law and facilitate Yoon’s early exit from office. Lee told reporters that Yoon’s speech was “greatly disappointing” and that the only way forward is his immediate resignation or impeachment. His party called Yoon’s martial law “unconstitutional, illegal rebellion or coup.” Lawmakers on Saturday first voted on a bill appointing a special prosecutor to investigate stock price manipulation allegations surrounding Yoon’s wife. Some lawmakers from Yoon’s party were seen leaving the hall after that vote, triggering angry shouts from opposition lawmakers. On Friday, PPP chair Han Dong-hun, who criticized Yoon’s martial law declaration, said he had received intelligence that during the brief period of martial law Yoon ordered the country’s defense counterintelligence commander to arrest and detain unspecified key politicians based on accusations of “anti-state activities.” Hong Jang-won, first deputy director of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing Friday that Yoon had ordered him to help the defense counterintelligence unit to detain key politicians. The targeted politicians included Han, Lee and Woo, according to Kim Byung-kee, one of the lawmakers who attended the meeting. The Defense Ministry said Friday it suspended three military commanders including the head of the defense counterintelligence unit over their involvement in enforcing martial law. Vice Defense Minister Kim Seon Ho has told parliament that Defense Minister Kim Yong Hyun ordered the deployment of troops to the National Assembly after Yoon imposed martial law. Opposition parties accused Kim of recommending to Yoon to enforce martial law. Kim resigned Thursday, and prosecutors imposed an overseas travel ban on him.
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Colorado’s public lands are poised to face a vastly different political environment in the coming year. With Donald Trump back in the White House and Republicans in full control of Congress , prospects of passing sweeping conservation bills could fade and federal agencies may push to extract more resources from public lands. While Colorado’s Western Slope — which saw the creation of President Joe Biden’s first national monument and actions by his administration to shield hundreds of thousands of acres from mining and drilling — could be affected, it may not be on the frontlines of such changes. “What we are likely to see is a general move to more oil and gas development on public lands ... and deprioritizing conservation and species protection,” said Michael Pappas, an environmental law professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. “Colorado will be carried with that current, so to speak. But the degree to which it’s going to impact Colorado specifically is possibly less than other states.” A booming outdoor sports economy is likely to keep the core of Colorado’s public lands focused on recreation rather than energy extraction like drilling, mining or logging, Pappas said. And recent federal protections for the state haven’t faced the same degree of political blowback as in other states, like neighboring Utah, where actions from the new administration are more likely to be focused. Still, conservationists are bracing for broader policy changes that could impact public lands across the Western United States, including in Colorado. Groups like the Denver-based Center for Western Priorities have already criticized Trump’s intentions for the Interior Department, which has been given direction to make good on his campaign promise to “drill, baby, drill.” They also point to Project 2025 , a conservative agenda that makes recommendations for the next Republican administration, for signs of what could be in store for some of Colorado’s most fought-over areas. The 922-page document calls for expanded oil and gas extraction, downgrading national monuments and remanding much of the president’s ability to protect public lands to Congress. A section written by conservative lawyer William Perry Pendley , who served as head of the Bureau of Land Management under Trump in 2020, proposes revoking the protections given by Biden to the Thompson Divide, which withdrew nearly 222,000 acres of Western Slope land from future mining, oil and gas drilling for the next two decades. Project 2025 also lambasts Biden’s use of the 1906 Antiquities Act to establish the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in Eagle and Summit counties in 2022 — with Pendly writing that Biden and past Democratic presidents have “abused” the authority and that the Antiquities Act should be “repealed.” Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 — the brainchild of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank — while on the campaign trail. Since his election, however, Trump has tapped several of its authors to serve in his administration. “It’s unclear how much of (Project 2025) the administration is really going to embrace or not, but it certainly seems to be consistent with the administration’s picks so far,” Pappas said. Environmental advocates are preparing to defend a wave of recent conservation victories in Colorado — and they’re hoping public opinion is on their side. In a Colorado College survey of 436 Coloradans released earlier this year, 69% said they prefer that leaders place more emphasis on protecting water, air, wildlife habitat and recreation opportunities over maximizing the amount of land available for drilling and mining. The poll also found 84% were in favor of creating new national parks, national monuments, national wildlife refuges, and tribal protected areas. “There’s such huge support, I believe, across the country, but especially in Colorado for the protection of public lands,” said Kathy Chandler-Henry, an outgoing elected official in Eagle County, where the bulk of Biden’s Camp Hale National Monument is located. The designation, which protects more than 53,000 acres that has been home to tribal nations and was used by the 10th Mountain Division during World War II, is steeped in decades of community support that Chandler-Henry believes would be difficult to overturn. It’s also an embodiment of one of Colorado’s core economic outputs — recreation. “There’s always a lot of talk from other counties in the West that have a strong timber industry and strong oil and gas that are frustrated with the conservation side of things because they feel it could hamper their economies,” said Chandler-Henry, who serves on the public lands committee for the National Association of Counties. “But I’m trying to push this idea that outdoor recreation is also a strong economic driver. And it’s also extractive.” One of Colorado’s statemore endangered areas could be the nearly quarter-million acres of the Thompson Divide that were removed from new oil and mining development earlier this year, said Will Roush, executive director for the Carbondale-based conservation group Wilderness Workshop. Roush’s group was a key leader in the 20-year battle to protect the “quintessential, Colorado backcountry” area, which spans the White River and Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison national forests. Roush said rescinding protections for the Thompson Divide could allow for new leases to pop up in places where previous agreements had expired or were no longer allowed. “So I think the threat is certainly there,” he said. Pappas, the environmental lawyer, said while it’s possible Trump will work to bring back leasing on the Thompson Divide, most of the land that is desirable for mining and drilling has already been leased. “There is certainly demand for (leasing on public lands) politically. What is to be seen is if there is demand for this economically,” Pappas said. He looks to Alaska as an example. During the first Trump administration, the state’s long-protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was opened to oil drilling but received limited interest from oil and gas companies . According to reporting by NPR, the move attracted only three bidders, including the state of Alaska itself, while half of the offered leases drew no bids at all. “In the end, the decision of whether or not to develop that land is in private control — we have many leased lands that aren’t actually developed,” Pappas said. “In some instances, this is just signaling, this is just a political message.” Still, Roush said it’s not just the Thompson Divide that could see a push for new development. A wide swath of the state’s Western Slope could eventually fall under land management policies that shift federal priorities back to energy extraction. Such far-reaching impacts will likely be driven by rule changes from within Trump’s Interior Department, which oversees the Bureau of Land Management. Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, which represents oil and gas interests across nine states, said she expects the next Trump administration will work to undo some Biden-era policies that have curtailed leases for drilling and mining on federal lands. Sgamma’s group is currently litigating Biden’s changes to Bureau of Land Management rules that created new conservation opportunities for public lands that have been managed for multiple uses, such as ranching and agriculture, drilling and recreation. Nearly 40% of Colorado’s public lands — 8.3 million acres — is controlled by the Bureau of Land Management, most of which is on the Western Slope. The rest is largely owned by the U.S. Forest Service. The new rules treat Bureau of Land Management areas “as if they are not multiple-use but are preservation-only lands, and so it just doesn’t conform to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, which is (the bureau’s) basic statute,” Sgamma said. “I think we’ll see a return to leasing in Colorado and see policies that potentially overturn some of the overreaching rules from the Biden administration.” Pappas said Congress’ land policy act doesn’t give clear instruction as to what should be prioritized in a multiple-use area, whether it’s energy extraction or conservation, meaning federal agencies — and the White House — have wide latitude for how to wield that authority. Such rule changes are also likely to take years to implement amid a bureaucratic process involving notices, impact studies, collection of public comment and layers of review. “Those processes are unlikely to be fast,” Pappas said. “That’s not day-one stuff.” On whether Trump follows through on recommendations in Project 2025 to revoke Biden’s Thompson Divide protections or shrink monuments under the Antiquities Act, Sgamma, who helped write the conservative playbook’s energy policies as it relates to public lands, expects that his administration will need to pick and choose what it pursues. Sgamma said reducing Biden’s 10-mile buffer around Chaco Cultural Historic National Park in New Mexico will likely be a higher priority than the Thompson Divide. Any fight over national monuments is almost sure to be centered in Utah, where lawmakers have been pushing for years to take more control of the state’s public lands from the federal government. During his first presidency, Trump shrunk the size of two Utah national monuments — Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante — in what amounted to the largest reduction of a national monument in U.S. history, a move that was challenged in federal court. Biden later restored both area’s boundaries in 2021. “Perhaps President Trump wants to push the boundaries and continue litigation on whether he has the power to reduce (national) monument boundaries,” Sgamma said. “That has not been tested in court. Perhaps President Trump wants to test that in court.” In Congress, the chances of passing various land protection bills introduced by Colorado lawmakers could be slim after Republicans won a majority in both chambers. Bills like the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act and the Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences Act have found support in the House under both Democratic and Republican control. But neither has advanced in the Senate, where, despite Democrats’ razor-thin majority, Republicans remain largely opposed . The CORE Act — versions of which have passed the House five times since 2019 — would expand protections to 420,000 acres of central mountain land , including the creation of new wilderness and recreation management areas as well as making the 20-year hiatus on future mining and drilling on the Thompson Divide permanent. Some provisions of the bill were folded into Biden’s Camp Hale designation. Republican Rep.-elect Jeff Hurd, who won election in Colorado’s sprawling 3rd Congressional District , which covers much of the Western Slope, said he hasn’t made a decision on how he would vote on those public lands bills should the legislation come up in the next Congress. Hurd said he wants to focus on multiple-use policies that keep public lands open for a range of practices, including agriculture, energy and outdoor recreation. “I have heard some concerns about some of the economic impacts that these designations would have and that’s something we’ll have to look at carefully,” Hurd said. “If we’re taking public land use off the table in a way that would prevent true multiple-use, that’s something that would certainly get scrutiny from me as a legislator.” In Congress’ upper chamber, Sen. Michael Bennet is hoping to see action during the lame-duck period and is “actively trying to pass Colorado public lands bills in an end-of-year package,” said Larkin Parker, a spokesperson for Bennet’s office. This fall, Bennet unveiled legislation to safeguard more than 700,000 acres of public land in and around Gunnison County by placing different types of federal land designations to enhance protections for undeveloped and wildlife areas, manage recreation use and spur more research and education. Known as the Gunnison Outdoor Resource Protection Act , it would also withdraw more than 74,000 acres of lands in Delta County’s North Fork Valley from new oil and gas development. Bennet, during a September news conference introducing his bill, acknowledged that despite support from local community leaders, it may be a struggle to secure the GORP Act’s passage under a Republican-controlled Senate next year. “There are people in Washington who have a bias against public lands,” Bennet said. “There are people who are ideologically opposed to adding one more acre of public lands.” Roush, the conservation group leader, said while he expects those efforts to face even greater headwinds in the next Congress, he’s hopeful the bills still have a path. The last major public lands initiative to become law — a sprawling conservation package named after former Michigan Rep. John Dingle — passed in 2019, under the first Trump administration. “It’s not impossible, and I think you have to play the long game,” Roush said. “We know these pieces of legislation reflect what the local communities want, they protect values and economies that are critical to Western life in Colorado. So call me an optimist, but at some point, I think they will pass.”