It’s been almost 25 years since the last trains rolled through Chaffee County, and over 56 years since the last passenger train offered service to and from Salida over Tennessee Pass.
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Around 50 people came out to the Buena Vista Community Center Tuesday night for an update on the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management’s Brown’s Canyon National Monument Resource Management Plan.
Dinnerstein, who resides in Brooklyn, N.Y., graduated from The Julliard School, where she studied under Peter Serkin.
Here are three things to take away from the June 25 meeting of the Board of County Commissioners:
The public comment period is part of a process the agencies will ideally have completed by this time next year to revisit the management priorities for Brown’s Canyon, which was designated a National Monument by President Barack Obama in 2015.
The 30-day window for submitting comments about the the Browns Canyon National Monument Resource Management Plan began Tuesday, May 14.
Bring your family, friends, students or coworkers to spend the day outdoors giving back to your community by volunteering to help maintain the public lands that make up so much of Chaffee County.
FRIENDS OF BROWN CANYON will partner with the Bureau of Land Management to offer a work day Sept. 23 in recognition of National Public Lands Day 2017 completing maintenance and reclamation on the recently renovated Ruby Mountain Trailhead. Work will begin at approximately 8-8:30 am and all v…
One of the appeals of the area is the public land offered so locals and tourists alike can truly feel the luxury of getting lost in the outdoors.
The easy-to-moderate 5-mile hike will begin at the Browns Canyon trailhead at 9 a.m. and return around 3 p.m. With an elevation gain of 500 feet, it begins near the historic town of Turret, just north of Salida.
Recently designated Browns Canyon National Monument is among those that will be reviewed, and though it is not clear what will happen, Browns Canyon supporters say they are concerned about the outcome.
I encourage President Trump’s new administration to visit with small business owners here in Buena Vista and across the country to learn how conservation is vital to American jobs, and the growth of our economy and communities.
The forums, which took place in Leadville, Denver, Colorado Springs, Cañon City, Buena Vista and Salida, allowed attendees to draw on maps, rank the importance of different resources and fill out surveys.
Forum moderators broke the approximately 40 participants into small groups, which spent the 2-hour session marking on maps, filling out questionnaires and discussing various aspects of the national monument.
“What you say will help develop an understanding of the monument as part of the larger landscape and communities it serves,” a press release states.
“The input you provide will help us garner a better understanding of the monument as part of the larger landscape in this area, as well as the communities it serves,” said Melissa Garcia, Browns Canyon National Monument Manager.
The goal of the re-route was to move the trail off of private land and to prepare for an upcoming parking lot renovation. The new trailhead will soon be at the southeast corner of the existing parking area.
Jenkinson is currently director of The Dakota Institute, where he co-hosts public radio’s popular “The Thomas Jefferson Hour” and creates documentary film, literary and symposium projects.
The Bureau of Land Management and Friends of Browns Canyon are recruiting volunteers for a National Public Lands Day event from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Sept 17.
The event took place at the Lariat Bar & Grill July 18 and was hosted collaboratively by Friends of Browns Canyon, the Wilderness Society, Conservation Lands Foundation and Conservation Colorado.
Because of its new notoriety and central location, the new Browns Canyon National Monument is in danger of experiencing overuse in some areas, misuse by some user groups and creating negative impacts to the surrounding private and county properties.
Sandra Johnson, 51 of Littleton, died Sunday, July 3, following a rafting incident on the Arkansas River.
Why the wilderness? Mainly because it sounded a bit exotic at the time. After a fun week in the forest, I still did not know why it was called a wilderness.
The national monument was designated by President Barack Obama on Feb. 19, 2015, to much applause from sportsmen and the business community for providing permanent protection of this scenic landscape and the important Arkansas River corridor that runs through Browns Canyon.
Friends of Browns Canyon will host a volunteer workday to commemorate National Public Lands Day on Saturday, Sept. 26.
Chaffee County Democrats will host a gathering to honor the leadership, dedication and tenacity of the grassroots organization Friends of Browns Canyon for their part in the protection of our local natural heritage.
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The national monument was designated by President Barack Obama on Feb. 19, 2015, to much applause from sportsmen and the business community for providing permanent protection of this scenic landscape and the important Arkansas River corridor that runs through Browns Canyon.
Friends of Browns Canyon will host a volunteer workday to commemorate National Public Lands Day on Saturday, Sept. 26.
Chaffee County Democrats will host a gathering to honor the leadership, dedication and tenacity of the grassroots organization Friends of Browns Canyon for their part in the protection of our local natural heritage.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, front row right, and other members of the delegation raft the Arkansas River through Browns Canyon Saturday prior to the national monument dedication.
Rather than arguing the details of conservation efforts in the halls of Congress, they strapped on life jackets and helmets and jumped into rafts to see the river and national monument firsthand.
The U.S. Forest Service completes a 5-year Roadless Area Review and Evaluation process (RARE I), which found that all the USFS lands within Browns Canyon and surrounding areas, tallying tens of thousands of acres, are suitable to be designated as wilderness.
Enjoying Saturday morning in Browns Canyon at the Ruby Mountain entry points are, from left, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, Gov. John Hickenlooper, Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell, U.S. Rep. Diane Degette and BLM director Neal Kornze.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell accepts a plaque from the Colorado-based Environmental Learning for Kids and members of the Hispanic Access Foundation Community Outreach. ELK is a program that allows urban youth throughout the state to experience the great outdoors, including pub…
As with any management plan for public lands, the first step in that process will be a series of scoping sessions for public comment.
U.S. Rep Doug Lamborn made the following post to his Facebook page Saturday:
Dignitaries including Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, the heads of the Forest Service and Bureau of Land management along with state and local representative float through Browns Canyon Saturday morning prior to the nati…
An effort that spanned several decades was concluded with a commemoration ceremony for Browns Canyon July 18 to celebrate its national monument status.
United States Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell applauds the effort to preserve and protect Browns Canyon Saturday afternoon at Buena Vista High School.
Set up has started in BuenaVista for Browns Canyon national monument celebration.
National monument and wilderness area protection means no corporate developers, resource pillagers and managers with no ties to the area can come in and destroy the lifeblood of the community, the county and the Upper Arkansas Valley.
The ceremony will be held at the soccer field at BV’s River Park on July 18 at 3 p.m. Baker hopes that BV residents will walk or ride bikes in order to keep traffic flow down at the river park.
Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area Park Manager Rob White said he expects river management to be business as usual despite the inclusion of the Arkansas River – specifically the land under the river – in Browns Canyon National Monument.
“Without the help and willingness of these volunteer groups, these projects would be nothing,” Brett Beasley, rec planner for the Forest Service, said.
Jeanne Younghaus works on loosening dirt in a drainage channel prior to Tom Easley clearing it with a shovel during a recent Upper Arkansas Wilderness Volunteers work day on the North Cottonwood Creek trail.
The Bureau of Land Management, Colorado Parks and Wildlife and U.S. Forest Service have released a new pair of maps for Browns Canyon National Monument – one in a PDF format and the other as an interactive online map.
Myers said the goal of the trip was to lobby representatives of the US government to protect the Antiquities Act in its current state, which has been a useful tool for 16 presidents – 8 Republicans and 8 Democrats – in protecting over 130 national monuments.
Angel Pena, left, Joseph Suina, Rep. Raül Grijalva, D-AZ., Deborah Gangloff, and Logan Myers met in Grijalva’s office to advocate for national monuments and preservation of the Antiquities Act.
Search and rescue crews recovered the body of the missing 11-year-old boy Friday from the Arkansas River in Browns Canyon.
The Chaffee County Sheriff's Office said the body of a juvenile male had been recovered from the Arkansas River near the Big Drop rapid area about 1:30 p.m. Friday, June 11.
Search and rescue crews continued combing through Browns Canyon June 11 looking for a missing 11-year-old boy from Golden, but they had found no sign of him by press time.
Emergency responders scoured Browns Canyon Wednesday after receiving calls at about 3:40 p.m. that a commercial rafting customer, an 11-year-old boy from Golden, had gone into the river and had not been found.
Chaffee County commissioners considered a resolution at their meeting Tuesday that would allow the county to participate in management of federal lands within the county.
In the Springs, he worked construction and sold furniture, but also discovered that he was spending most of his free time in Chaffee County, enjoying what it has to offer.
Representatives of the committee said during the meeting that their two main points were protection of individual rights and economic impact
Heinlein said part of the interim management plan is working on signage to direct visitors to the monument area through Ruby Mountain and Hecla Junction.
The proposed legislation has been criticized by advocacy groups as a backdoor attempt to put federal public lands in state control, claiming the move may lead to the land being sold off and placed in private ownership.
A 230-acre riverfront parcel near Browns Canyon National Monument is now off limits for mining.
The bill was drafted, introduced to Congress in November and scheduled for a hearing in the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, which falls under the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Just days after President Barack Obama signed off on Browns Canyon National Monument, a few of those advocates sat in a Salida coffee shop to recount the years of effort.
Responses were quick following a statement Thursday from Rep. Doug Lamborn regarding Browns Canyon.
Executive director Keith Baker and board president Bill Dvorak met president Barack Obama in the Oval Office on Feb. 24 to recognize the recent designation of Brown Canyon National Monument.
Keith Baker, executive director of Friends of Browns Canyon, and FOBC president Bill Dvorak, stand at the White House with delegates from Hawaii during a ceremony marking national monument designations.
Paying guests on the upper Arkansas River spent $23.7 million last year, for a total estimated economic impact of $60.7 million, according to the Colorado River Outfitters Association. Outfitters expect the national monument will lure more clients to the already-popular river.
Mike Whittington, co-owner of rafting company Independent Whitewater, rides the current through Pinball rapid in Browns Canyon National Monument Feb. 19, the day after it was designated by President Barack Obama.
President Barack Obama has signed a proclamation establishing Browns Canyon National Monument, the culmination of a two-decade effort to protect the popular whitewater destination. The Times has compiled its coverage of the issue, dating back to U.S. Sen. Mark Udall's original proposal.
A look back at The Times' coverage of the most recent efforts to permanently protect Browns Canyon.
The Times has compiled news of Obama's Browns Canyon National Monument proclamation, from the preliminary announcement to the official signing.
First came the announcement, then the reaction. Read responses sent to The Times in the wake of President Barack Obama's establishment of Browns Canyon National Monument.
Efforts to protect Browns Canyon aren't new – they date back to the late 70s. Now that Browns Canyon National Monument is official, learn how the popular whitewater corridor earned the distinction.
Browns Canyon has been formally declared a national monument.
Colorado sportsmen today praised President Obama’s designation of Browns Canyon as a new national monument, the culmination of years of effort to protect a Colorado backcountry treasure beloved by generations of anglers, hunters, rafters, and hikers.
The Denver Post reported this morning that President Barack Obama will designate Colorado’s Browns Canyon as a new national monument. But two members of Colorado’s Congressional delegation immediately criticized the decision and distorted the facts about the monument designation.
We're puzzled over U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn's criticism of Browns Canyon National Monument in the Feb. 18 Denver Post: ". . . national monuments created by presidential executive order under the Antiquities Act almost always become underfunded, neglected properties."
Gov. John Hickenlooper and Colorado legislators sounded off Wednesday after hearing the announcement that President Obama will designate more than 20,000 acres of Browns Canyon as a national monument.
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