Tag: Forest Service
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Popular winter recreation area opens season in Colorado
A bevy of snow at the start of the month unlocked popular meadows and slopes for skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling in Colorado. The U.S. Forest Service announced the start of the season for Vail Pass Winter Recreation Area. It’s an area spanning 55,000 acres off Interstate 70 and U.S. 24, spanning elevations near 9,200 feet…
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Debate over wilderness rock climbing at center of federal review
The U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service have proposed national guidance for anchors fixed on rocks across wilderness areas — a point of increased concern among climbers and conservation advocates in recent years. In an article early this year titled “A War on Wilderness Climbing?” the sport’s national leader in advocacy, Boulder-based Access Fund,…
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Officials have a plan to manage target shooting across Pike National Forest
The U.S. Forest Service is moving ahead in its mission to control recreational shooting across Pike National Forest, where land managers have seen troubling trends mix with a growing Front Range population. Target shooting is a valid, historic activity across Forest Service lands, Jason Robertson, acting supervisor of Pike National Forest, acknowledged in starting a…
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Proposal would raise nightly rates at historic cabins around southern, central Colorado
The U.S. Forest Service has proposed raising nightly rates for six cabin sites around the southern and central parts of Colorado. Under the proposal, prices would double at the Lake Isabel Cabin outside Rye, from $75 to $150. The same hike would apply to the historic Roberts Cabin outside Como, the railroading settlement along Boreas…
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New, increased fees proposed for recreation areas in Colorado
The U.S. Forest Service has proposed sweeping increases and new fees across recreation areas in northwest Colorado. Campgrounds and trailheads around Routt County are among the long list of changes proposed for some 2.9 million acres of federal land spanning that part of the state and eastern Wyoming. Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest leadership has identified…
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Colorado has one Wild and Scenic waterway. Could this be the next?
Alongside photographers, Sinjin Eberle once found himself in a rather obscure part of Colorado that seemed to him in every way wild and scenic. The group started from the upper reaches of Deep Creek Canyon, from the same-named lake near 10,400 feet. From there, the stream harshly dropped more than 4,000 feet between soaring limestone…
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Proposed changes for busy base accessing Colorado 14ers
The U.S. Forest Service is contemplating the future of a highly trafficked recreation area accessing some of Colorado’s most-sought 14,000-foot summits. The South Park Ranger District recently released a proposed plan and opened a public comment period regarding the Kite Lake trailhead and campground above Alma. That’s the base for starting up mounts Lincoln, Democrat…
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Locals concerned about possibility of Colorado’s 43rd state park
Ahead of a Monday evening meeting said to “get additional feedback” from the larger public on the potential for Colorado’s 43rd state park, some locals near the site say they have felt unheard. They are part of the small community of Sweetwater, situated along the dirt road that dead-ends at Sweetwater Lake. In the fall…
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Permits set to launch for popular Colorado wilderness
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Permits soon will be available for backpackers looking to visit some of the more popular areas of an iconic Colorado wilderness. Starting Feb. 15, reservations are set to be posted on recreation.gov for summer trips to the most sought parts of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness. Costing…
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10th Circuit rebuffs environmental group’s lawsuit over government records
The federal appeals court based in Denver has rejected the arguments from a wildlife and habitat conservation group that the U.S. Forest Service failed to conduct a legally-adequate search for records — despite disclosing 140,637 pages of documents related to a controversial roadway project. Rocky Mountain Wild filed an open records request with the Forest Service…