Tag: conservation
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[PRINT] El Paso County launches master plan effort to protect Paint Mines (copy)
El Paso County is starting work on a new master plan for Paint Mines Interpretive Park intended to help protect the archaeological value of the site and the colorful clay rock. The park that stretches across 775 acres in eastern El Paso County saw record-high visitation during the pandemic and more problems with vandalism, social…
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New mission hopes to achieve conservation, recreation dreams in Pikes Peak region
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A new effort aims to realize the Pikes Peak region’s “biggest, most ambitious conservation and recreation goals.” That’s the description of the initiative called Elevate the Peak, which was recently announced on a website launched by Colorado Springs-based Palmer Land Conservancy. The nonprofit with a…
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With ‘troubling decline’ of Colorado Springs’ greenback cutthroat trout, questions of recreation reemerge
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The issue of conservation and recreation in Colorado Springs’ Bear Creek watershed has once again come to a head, with a recent report noting a “troubling decline” of greenback cutthroat trout swimming in the waters around the popular Jones Park and surrounding mountains southwest of…