This message is forwarded from the Blueribbion Coalition
BLUERIBBON COALITION ACTION ALERT! Dear BRC Colorado, Arizona and Utah Subscribers, We decided to send this Colorado Alert to Arizona and Utah because of its connection to the popular Rico Trail System and the Imogene - Black Bear and Ophir Pass area. Tom Thomas, one of the Directors of the Public Access Preservation Association (PAPA www.papatelluride.org), sent us PAPA's Action Alert on a very sweet trail system nestled in the Southwest corner of Colorado near the town of Rico. BRC members will remember that the Glen Pauls family, all PAPA members, donated some sought after property near Telluride to the Forest Service in order to preserve public access. (See Pauls Family Insures Public Access in the Ophir Mining District www.sharetrails.org/magazine/article.php?id=1619 ) PAPA and the Pauls family is a key player in the ongoing struggle to improve management in the Imogene - Black Bear and Ophir Pass area. Tom and the folks at PAPA have been dogging the details in the Rico-West Dolores Travel Management Plan (RWDTMP). Together with the Taylor Park area, the Rico trail system makes up some of the last remaining high altitude motorcycle and ATV trails in the Columbine state. PAPA asked us if we would forward their Action Alert on the Rico trails. Given this group's strong support for the entire OHV family -- on some of the best OHV routes in Colorado -- I hope BRC members would respond with GUSTO! Instructions below. Deadline is June 22, 2009, so please do it today. Thanks! Brian Hawthorne Public Lands Policy Director BlueRibbon Coalition 208-237-1008 ext 102 PS: You can support PAPA's efforts by joining online at www.papatelluride.org/Membership/Page1.htm.
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