U.S. Forest Service photo
The “Turkey Track 7 Fire” started near a shooting range about nine miles north of Woodland Park, west of Highway 67, on April 12, 2017. The U.S. Forest Service reported that the fire started at the range. That range is proposed to become an official Pikes Peak National Forest shooting range.
U.S. Forest Service photo
A new proposed plan aims to control gunfire on increasingly busy public lands across Colorado s Front Range. The Integrated Management of Target Shooting, as the U.S. Forest Service titles the 28-page document, outlines strategies within Pike National Forest, where land managers and hikers, bikers and off-roaders have long reported disturbing sights and sounds: piles of bullets and shots fired all too close.
In its proposal, the Forest Service acknowledges the legality of shooting in undesignated places within national forests and grasslands. But federal rules are being broken when it comes to leaving trash, using appropriate targets rather than road signs and trees, and shoot(ing) in a safe manner, the plan reads.