"Closed during the snow season."
"The Forest is proposing a fee at this site."
"You may encounter short-term closures a couple times a week while the site is being cleaned and maintained. Please respect all signage."
"...benches for 25, 50-75 and 100-yard shooting opportunities"
“Following years of collaboration, it is exciting for us and our partners to have the
first public shooting range opening and these safety closures being implemented,”
Forest Supervisor Chris Stubbs said. “We knew it was important to offer safe places
for displaced recreational shooters to go, while managing for public safety.”
The 2019 Decision to close unsuitable areas when shooting ranges were
constructed and open to the public came about through more than a decade of
collaboration with the Northern Front Range Recreational Sport Shooting
Management Partnership. This partnership is made up of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and Boulder, Clear Creek,
Gilpin and Larimer counties. Additional closures in northern Clear Creek and Gilpin
counties are planned when the Clear Creek Shooting Sports Park opens in 2026.
It's been planned "for safety" since at least 2009.
Exactly how many "unsafe incidents" have occurred in the closed areas in the last
seventeen years?
Government. Always the worst option.
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