Author: Seth Boster
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Could this be the next big outdoor destination in Woodland Park?
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Could a golf course be the next great outdoor escape in the “City Above the Clouds” west of Colorado Springs? Advocates in Woodland Park think so. The 18-hole Shining Mountain Golf Course “is such a big parcel, with so much more potential than golf,” said Chris Gonzales, who leads Teller Trail Team, a nonprofit aiming…
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County seeks control of target shooting area in southern Colorado
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Local government officials are looking to take control of a piece of Pike National Forest that has long been a popular, controversial area for target shooting. North of Woodland Park, across the Douglas County line off Colorado 67, the area known as Turkey Tracks was one focus of the U.S. Forest Service’s Integrated Management of…
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Jefferson County Open Space forming ‘greenprint’ for next 5 years
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Land managers overseeing some of the most popular parks in the Denver metro are shaping a plan for the near future. Jefferson County Open Space calls it a “Conservation Greenprint” — meant to be “a strategic framework” for the next five years of land acquisition, maintenance and trail development. The sales tax-funded agency reports 17.6…
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National conservation area proposed again for southwest Colorado
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Colorado lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would form a national conservation area over highly contended land in southwest Colorado. U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper recently announced legislation closely resembling a proposal from 2022 to add protections around public land along the Dolores River. The Dolores River National Conservation Area and Special Management…
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‘Unprecedented’ partnership in Colorado looks to combat worsening wildfires
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A partnership being hailed as “unprecedented” is to embark on an ambitious mission: to prepare Colorado for worsening wildfires amid an expanding human presence in the places they burn and the planet’s rising temperatures. The Rocky Mountain Restoration Initiative is made up of 30 organizations, including federal land managers, state government officials, utility operators, and…
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Wolves aren’t waiting for an invitation — wildlife officials say pack is roaming Colorado
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Wolves, apparently, don’t need an invitation. Whether Coloradans approve or decline their reintroduction in a statewide referendum in November, it appears the predators have returned to their native range. For the first time since wolves were systematically eradicated in the 1940s by shooting, trapping and poisoning, state officials suspect a pack is roaming the state’s…
