Colorado: Bureau of Land Management

All those that hunt or fish in Colorado please take note.

SOURCE: NRA Newsletter 

COLORADO:  BLM Plans to Close Canyons of the Ancients to Recreational Shooting:  The Bureau of Land Management has released a draft management plan for the 164,000-acre Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in southwest Colorado.  All four management alternatives would close the entire Monument to recreational shooting.  The BLM cites vandalism of cultural and natural resources and visitor safety as the reasons for closure.  For more information about the plan, please go to http://www.blm.gov/rmp/canm/.  Comments from the public are being accepted until January 25, 2008.  It is critical that gun owners and sportsmen take an active role in this process!

BLM Plan Will Set Game Retrieval Restrictions:  The Bureau of Land Management has released a draft management plan for travel routes on lands it administers within San Luis Valley, Colorado.  The proposal will limit the retrieval of game off designated routes except to a perpendicular distance of 300 ft. from the edge of a route.  Comments on the plan are being accepted until December 31.  The document can be viewed at http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/slvplc/Travel_Management.html.  For further information, please contact Mark Swinney, Project Lead, by phone at (719) 655-2547, or by e-mail at mswinney@co.blm.gov.  Once again, it is critical that gun owners and sportsmen take an active role in this process!