The regular meeting of the Chaffee Recreation Taskforce has been set for 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1. The special guest for the session is State Trails Program Manager Fletcher Jacobs, who will share information on the 2021 Trails with Wildlife in Mind Guide.
Chaffee Rec Adopters Program Manager Joe Greiner measures the perimeter of a campsite in the Fooses Creek drainage using the Campsite Collector App created for volunteer stewardship work and public lands management planning under the Chaffee County Outdoor Recreation Management Plan
The session agenda:
3:oo p.m. Introductions
3:10 p.m. Marcus Selig, Vice President National Forest Foundation, GOCO Centennial Project on 14ers
3:20 p.m. Fletcher Jacobs, State Trails Program Manager CPW, 2021 Trails with Wildlife in Mind Guide – presentation and discussion
4:10 p.m. Natalie Allio – Supporting the goal to flip the impact of recreation users on agricultural operators to a profit with the VENCE project.
4:20 p.m. Partner Shares and Close
In February Salida Mountain Trails (SMT) hosted an information-sharing session with Outside 285, a community collaborative that developed a wildlife model, which was used as the foundation of the local Chaffee county wildlife model, and then a trails plan. SMT has provided a recording of that session and a link to more information here.
The Recreation Task Force Meeting will be held via Zoom. To attend the meeting, follow this link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84155233242?pwd=cUJ3NXJDbDRVN0JQWGZUU1JBWXErZz09
Meeting ID: 841 5523 3242
Passcode: O8RWHfA3
dear Beth G, I am saying right on. we live in a neighborhood that accesses the river. the word is out over the state that one can camp here for free. the camping facilities have been upgraded and fencing has been established to control allowed uses of the separate areas. the appropriate agencies check on the area in the summer. the area is cleaner and the parking of vehicles has been restricted to preclude further damage. we must have this kind of official attention to areas that have less status than a state park etc. I hope you too can receive attention. from the responsible agencies. People here did a lot of nagging . good luck. Louise Morrisette Moody
This looks good, and incudes what we consider recreation in our home, but what about all of the TX visitors and the like who insist on motorized vehicles. Is this included in the effort? I realize that ranching and farming is important but so are the daily lives of the residents impacted by these imported recreationists that this area cannot support ontop of the local recreationists who do not profit but still expect to be able to enjoy the area now destroyed by making it a profitable enterprise. It is a habit of this county to only consider impact on profit and ignore the life and health of residents who should be able to enjoy their areas also unharmed by the impact of recreation for profit. I hope that turning this around for profit does not destroy our lives further. We used to be able to simply go outside in our own home to enjoy the area and now those who profit suggest that we should shut up, stop complaining and go elsewhere for enjoyment of life instead of our own yard. I hope this group considers more than profit in their goals. Profit and greed has killed our neighborhood and will be the death of me and many like me who live here for peaceful enjoyment of the area.
I don’t know who you are or where you live, but you really seem to hate it here now, based on the repetitive nature of your comments on articles here. It seems like what you really need is a time machine, or to just move to somewhere more to your liking. The fact that you always vomit out a pile of words uncontaminated by any sort of common grammar or punctuation isn’t helping your case.
Good luck finding a place where nothing ever changes…