Tag: forest service
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New trail to the top of Pikes Peak gets major funding: ‘Super stoked’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Years-long work on a new trail to the top of Pikes Peak will go into the summer with a head of steam. That’ll be in the form of funding that Rocky Mountain Field Institute (RMFI) Executive Director Jolie NeSmith described as a relief. “Super stoked,”…
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New trail to the top of Pikes Peak gets major funding: ‘Super stoked’
Years-long work on a new trail to the top of Pikes Peak will go into the summer with a head of steam. That’ll be in the form of funding that Rocky Mountain Field Institute (RMFI) Executive Director Jolie NeSmith described as a relief. “Super stoked,” she said of $250,000 recently announced from Colorado Parks and…
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‘Major milestone’ toward Colorado ski area’s ‘dream’ expansion
A Colorado ski area is one step closer to growing with a recent decision by the U.S. Forest Service. That’s the 43-page environmental assessment and “finding of no significant impact” related to Monarch Mountain’s proposed expansion into No Name Basin. That analysis and finding are standard and essential toward the Forest Service potentially approving such…
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Pikes Peak recreation under Colorado Parks and Wildlife? Coalition has the idea
Don’t call it Pikes Peak State Park. A regional collaboration has arrived at an idea years in the making: for recreation on America’s Mountain — largely U.S. Forest Service turf spotted with other governmental and commercial interests — to be managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. But the idea through the state-funded Outdoor Pikes Peak…
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Upgrades coming to popular Colorado ski area
With recent approval from the U.S. Forest Service, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area will replace a chairlift and add amenities to the iconic mountain in Summit County. The fixed-grip, three-person Lenawee lift will be converted into a faster detachable ferry. Accessing the upper Montezuma Bowl and East Wall, the lift is anticipated to increase uphill capacity…
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Trail Talk: Exploring Colorado’s beautiful wilderness shouldn’t come with fear of stray bullets
My brother, father, uncles and cousins were all deer hunters back in Wisconsin. I learned to shoot a .22 when I was 12 and enjoyed target shooting using soup cans at my grandparents’ farm. Guns are a tool and have a purpose. I am also an avid hiker and love to lose myself above Palmer…
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Framework proposed for shooting guns in Pike National Forest
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A new proposed plan aims to control gunfire on increasingly busy public lands across Colorado’s Front Range. “The Integrated Management of Target Shooting,” as the U.S. Forest Service titles the 28-page document, outlines strategies within Pike National Forest, where land managers and hikers, bikers and…
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Framework proposed for shooting guns in Pike National Forest
A new proposed plan aims to control gunfire on increasingly busy public lands across Colorado’s Front Range. “The Integrated Management of Target Shooting,” as the U.S. Forest Service titles the 28-page document, outlines strategies within Pike National Forest, where land managers and hikers, bikers and off-roaders have long reported disturbing sights and sounds: piles of…
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Colorado’s ‘pioneer campers’ mobilized during last pandemic — and modern recreation took off
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ralph Swain can’t help but laugh at himself and fellow U.S. Forest Service officers when he thinks back to March, as the coronavirus pandemic took root and tossed a blanket of uncertainty over American society. “We had so many dang questions,” says Swain, the agency’s…