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DENVER (AP) If anybody could work the system and get access to wildly popular open space this summer, you’d think Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commissioner Taishya Adams would have a good shot. But there she is, just like everyone else, penciling early March on her planner as the day she can first swing sharp elbows online to get summer group backpacking reservations at Rocky Mountain National Park, not far from her home in Boulder.
Everyone agrees Colorado’s open spaces are growing alarmingly crowded on popular days. The numbers are startling. Open space managers across the West are scrambling to accommodate the growth without provoking a public backlash against new rules.