Temporary toilets keep public lands cleaner
Nearly 30 portable toilets were placed at more than a dozen trailheads and popular recreation areas this year, part of a Chaffee Recreation Council “Keep it Clean” initiative to manage…
Category: Recreation
Managing the impacts of growth in outdoor recreation
Quality outdoor recreation is an essential part of the Chaffee County lifestyle as well as a key economic driver. While recreation use is growing and that’s good for the economy,…
Rangers patrol, clean up public lands under new program
On a Thursday morning in early July, the Chaffee Rec Rangers arrive at the Buffalo Peaks Trailhead deep in the Fourmile Recreation Management Area where remnants of a campfire remain…
Recreation impacts a hot topic
Citizens, business owners, user-group reps, land management agency personnel and many others are working to map and monitor the county’s recreation system under a community plan to manage it sustainably…
All hands help restore Fourmile road near Midland recreation area
Mini-grant supports BLM, volunteer effort to address growth impacts Julie Finley grabs a handful of seed from a gallon-sized Ziplock baggie then flicks her wrist over a two-track road at…
Recreation program helps volunteers steward public lands
A new Chaffee Rec Adopters program that enables public lands stewardship began in 2021 with support from Chaffee Common Ground. Volunteers use a mobile app to inventory dispersed campsites and…
Mini-grant supports mighty Wilderness stewardship effort
Healthy Horn Fork project eyes new management tactics for Collegiate Peaks Wilderness The 1964 Wilderness Act created the National Wilderness Preservation System, which protects 111 million acres in America from…
Local youth help fix camping areas
Common Ground grant to SCC helps manage impacts from growing recreation use Local high school students helped address the impacts of growing recreation in camping areas like Fourmile and Raspberry…
Education in sharper focus at popular Fourmile recreation area
Chaffee Common Ground is supporting education and interpretation at one of the county’s busiest visitor recreation areas. More than a dozen new entry-point kiosks and information panels were added in…
