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.
Nancy Brandt, courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
The White-breasted nuthatch is an active little creature known for jamming nuts and acorns into the bark of a tree and then hitting it with their bill to hatch the seed. They’ll also be happy to enjoy nuts, sunflower seeds or peanuts from a bird feeder. Like woodpeckers, the more trees around your neighborhood, the more nuthatches. Look for the smaller and more animated pygmy nuthatch in the higher elevation ponderosa pine forests of Colorado.
Nancy Brandt, courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Our Christmas tree has a knee. “A crooked tree for a crooked year” was my sales pitch when we spotted the bent ponderosa pine on the snowy downslope of Pike National Forest. First just my 6-year-old agreed, and then my wife, and finally
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Our Christmas tree has a knee. “A crooked tree for a crooked year” was my sales pitch when we spotted the bent ponderosa pine on the snowy downslope of Pike National Forest. First just my 6-year-old agreed, and then my wife, and finally my 9-year-old came on board. After we cut it, we found layers we certainly didn’t anticipate.
I’d taken the day off work so we could all drive half an hour northwest from our little town at the base of Pikes Peak up into the national forest to secure our tree. It’s a neat annual program run by the Forest Service that’s a fundraiser, family activity and fire reduction initiative all wrapped in one.