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OK, I finally have it in writing. “The idea behind creating a system of national forests was to put these lands under public ownership, protected from private exploitation and managed in the public interest". After a hundred years exploitation still rules!
Yearly cities and ski areas push their way ever further onto land that should be forest. They say it’s to raise money to pay to run the rest on the forest. With this short sighted mentality we will eventually rent all forests to pay for the bureaucracies that run them and have no forest left. Surely “It can’t happen here". Big money ski areas and their lawyers are now “In charge” of our forests with their only goal being growth. Arapahoe Basin and Wolf Creek being our latest debacles.
The USFS must immediatly stop the loss of forests and get back to the intent of the law that created it. No amount of money can replace a forest. We must stop the (To borrow from an old and dear song that is too easily quoted in Colorado these days) “Taking of paradise, putting up a parking lot” or city or more and bigger ski areas or private rivers etc. etc.

Randy Brown
Greeley

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