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Wild Connections
With your help we are protecting and restoring wildlands, native species habitat and biological diverstiy in the upper reaches of the Arkansas and South Platte Rivers.
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DeGette Introduces Colorado Wilderness Act of 2009
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U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) introduced H.R. 4289, the Colorado Wilderness Act of 2009. Rep DeGette said, "The Colorado Wilderness Act of 2009 would protect 34 areas, comprising a total of 850,000 acres. The Act is a balanced proposal that will protect just over 1% of Colorados total land area. The proposal was carefully researched, with its wilderness qualities and boundaries established using sophisticated geographic information systems and double checked on the ground by dedicated citizen volunteers."
The legislation includes Beaver Creek, Grape Creek, McIntyre Hills, Table Mountain, Badger Creek and Browns Canyon, all located along the Arkansas Canyon between Canon City and Buena Vista. A Committee hearing is pending for March.
For maps and detailed descriptions of the Colorado Wilderness Act please visit:
http://degette.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=844&Item id=189
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| The high mesas of Table Mountain across the Arkansas River are included in the Wilderness legislation. Photo by Jean C. Smith |
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South Rampart Travel meeting
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The Forest Service is holding the last of three public workshops for the South Rampart Travel Management Plan. Draft alternatives will be presented and discussed. You can affect the routes that will be open to hiking, mountain biking, horse-back riding, automobile and off-highway vehicles.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Workshop from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM (presentation at 5:30)
Leon Young Service Center (Colorado Springs Utilities)
Pikes Peak Room (2nd floor)
1521 Hancock Expressway
Colorado Springs, Colorado
You can also submit comments at Comment@SouthRampart.Net or review progress on the Project Webpage: http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/psicc/pp/
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| Getting the Job Done, Together:
restoring habitat and reclaiming wildways in Trout and Eagle Creeks
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"I was glad to see the upper half of the former user-made trail so well-barricaded by logs, downed trees, and branches that it has kept out ORV traffic for almost six months. There are promising areas of revegetation…”, Lee said. But Tod said, “At first I was discouraged when I was counting grass shoots going up the trail. It seemed like there were lots of places where the grass didn’t grow, where there was new erosion, and where motorcycles had cut new trails. But as I was coming down, I saw much more new grass in the late day sun.”
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| Trout Creek restoration: new groth in November 2009. Photo by Michael Rogers |
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Lee Patton and Tod Bacigalupi, both Wild Connections Board members, returned to Trout Creek in November for a late season monitoring of habitat restoration on the former ATV trail located north of Eagle Creek. Many of you are familiar with this because you helped last summer. Over four work days, volunteers seeded and mulched 2¼ linear miles and nearly 5 acres of gullied trail.
We will build on that experience to restore the Eagle Creek and the Trout Creek corridors next spring.
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