Their second meeting gave them a slate of officers and a mission statement.
Ron Zaccagnini, retired law enforcement officer with the Division of Wildlife (now called Colorado Parks and Wildlife) came up with the idea to come together as a community for everyone’s benefit and create an umbrella of equestrian activities as well as a unified voice to keep trails available for horses.
“In my experience with DOW, I saw, with the increase of legal and illegal motorized use of public lands, that horses and horse use was being pushed off, and accidents were happening when they did interact with (off-highway vehicles),” said Zaccagnini, now a horse trainer in Lake George.