Colorado: USFS Requesting Comments on Direction for Recreational Sport Shooting

By Justin Stakes

Fairfax, VA -(AmmoLand.com)- The NRA issued an alert in May to advise our Colorado members that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) had announced its intent to amend the management plan for the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests (ARNF) to address recreational shooting.

The USFS received over 300 comments regarding its announcement, including the letter sent by the NRA and 29 other national sportsmen’s organizations.

Based on the comments, the USFS is proposing a direction for managing recreational shooting in the ARNF and is inviting comments until September 9, 2015. The proposed direction includes:

(1) Adding Forest Plan goals and objectives for recreational sport shooting.

(2) Identifying lands as suitable for dispersed recreational sport shooting.

(3) Identifying lands as not suitable for dispersed recreational sport shooting for safety reasons.

(4) Identifying sites that are suitable as designated shooting areas.

Details about the proposed direction can be found at www.fs.usda.gov/goto/arp/recshootingmgt, along with a map that shows which lands the USFS believes are suitable for recreational shooting, which lands are not suitable, and which are being proposed as designated shooting areas.

Approximately 1.1 million acres (80%) of the ARNF are proposed …read more

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