4th Grade Social Studies

The “Rock River Canyon Ice Caves” better known as the Eben Ice Caves, form when melting snow runs over the edge of a small cliff and freezes, forming “ice caves” Much like the large ice formations along Munising’s <a href="http://www.michigan.org/property/grand-island-national-recreation-area/" target="_blank">Grand</a>

With tensions building, the Steamboat Springs City Council hired the Keystone Policy Center to oversee public meetings aimed at reaching agreement on the proposal the U.S. Forest Service will consider

Larry Desjardin

Keep Routt Wild

Routt National Forest

Kelly Northcutt

Routt County Riders

The project being considered by the Forest Service is called the Mad Rabbit Trails Project because the trails — motorized and nonmotorized — would run generally from Mad Creek to Rabbit Ears Pass.

Aaron Voos, spokesman for the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has also raised concerns about the cumulative impacts of more trails on wildlife.&nbsp;In a 2018 letter to the Forest Service, JT Romatzke, CPW’s northwest regional manager, wrote that “outdoor recreation associated with trails influences a variety of wildlife species in multiple ways.”

<p>“Outdoor recreation is one of the greatest drivers of Colorado’s economy and is one of the fastest growing activities in the state,” Romatzke wrote to the Forest Service.</p> <p>However, the state’s growing human population is placing a growing demand on Colorado’s limited natural resources and CPW is responsible for both connecting people to the outdoors and “conserving wildlife and habitat,” Romatzke added.</p>