Colorado’s new­ly formed geo­graph­ic nam­ing board has received 16 requests to change the names of moun­tains and open areas in the state — many because of the cur­rent names’ deroga­to­ry con­no­ta­tions toward Native Amer­i­cans or Black people.

The board will be charged with mak­ing rec­om­men­da­tions for name changes as well as rec­om­mend­ing names for new sites.

Here are the 16 pend­ing pro­pos­als for name changes:

• Mount Evans in Clear Creek Coun­ty: three requests. Pro­posed alter­na­tives: Mount Ros­alie, Mount Soule, Mount Cheyenne Arapaho
• Squaw Moun­tain in Clear Creek Coun­ty. Pro­posed alter­na­tive: Mount Mistanta
• Red­skin Creek in Jef­fer­son and Park Coun­ties. Pro­posed alter­na­tive: Ute Creek
• Chi­na­man Gulch in Chaf­fee Coun­ty. Pro­posed alter­na­tive: Trout Creek Gulch
• Red­skin Moun­tain in Jef­fer­son Coun­ty. Pro­posed alter­na­tive: Mount Jerome
• Negro Creek in Delta Coun­ty. Pro­posed alter­na­tive: Hops Creek or Clay Creek
• Negro Mesa in Delta Coun­ty. Pro­posed alter­na­tive: Clay Mesa
• Negro Draw in Mon­tezu­ma Coun­ty. Pro­posed alter­na­tive: Hops Draw
• Bench­mark Lake Reser­voir in Eagle Coun­ty. Pro­posed alter­na­tive: Not­ting­ham Lake
• V H Pas­ture Reser­voir in San Miguel Coun­ty. Pro­posed alter­na­tive: Elk Springs Reservoir
• Vurl Reser­voir in San Miguel Coun­ty. Pro­posed alter­na­tive: Wapi­ti Reservoir
• Unnamed Peak in Jef­fer­son Coun­ty. Pro­posed alter­na­tive: Cimar­ron Peak
• Calkins Lake in Weld Coun­ty. Pro­posed alter­na­tive: Union Reservoir

The Col­orado Geo­graph­ic Nam­ing Advi­so­ry Board was cre­at­ed by Gov. Jared Polis at a time when peo­ple across the coun­try have been call­ing for the removal of sym­bols of racism. Col­orado was one of only two states with­out such a board.

“It is not lost on me the times under which this Board is meet­ing,” Dan Gibbs, exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Depart­ment of Nat­ur­al Resources, said in a state­ment. “We will have oppor­tu­ni­ties to help Col­orado con­tin­ue to evolve to be more inclu­sive and bet­ter reflect the diver­si­ty and sto­ries of our pop­u­la­tion and true his­to­ry through the names of its nat­ur­al features.”

To learn more about the board or sub­mit a nam­ing request, go to Colorado’s Depart­ment of Nat­ur­al Resources web­site.