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Approval of a new road to Berlaimont Estates confirms the U.S. Forest Service’s continued disregard for wildlife in this valley. This is yet one more in a long list of wildlife-decimating decisions.
Throughout the Eagle Valley and specifically in the Holy Cross Ranger District, the Forest Service has built an abysmal record of protecting our wildlife resources. A few examples of Forest Service decisions that have caused irreparable harm to the valley’s wildlife include ski area expansions at Vail, Beaver Creek, and McCoy Park; the Evercrisp mountain bike trail, and now the Berlaimont Estates road.
Until about 30 years ago, the Forest Service could be depended upon to managing the forest with wildlife protection playing a key role. There were at least one or two wildlife habitat enhancement projects annually. That hasn’t been the case in the last several decades. Cooperative projects with the Colorado Division of Wildlife (now Colorado Parks and Wildlife) in that time period c
By GREG WALCHER
I couldnât help thinking about my friend, the late Harry Talbott, this week when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) designated nearly 300,000 acres as critical habitat for the yellow-billed cuckoo. Harry was a conservation icon, not only because of his leadership in preserving Palisadeâs orchards and open space throughout the region, nor just because of his work in founding the rural agricultural land trust movement, as crucial as those were. He was more than an activist involved in vital local issues. Harry was the real deal, a genuine environmentalist and an indispensable role model for caring about the world around us.