An upcoming reroute of the Caps Trail in Horse Gulch will incorporate a progressive feature using enhanced natural features on the new alignment, according to Joanne Gantt, the Administrative Assistant for the Durango Parks and Recreation Department. Caps Trail is currently an overgrown, decrepit, eroded trail running parallel and in between Horse Gulch Road and the ridge on the Meadow Loop. Trails 2000’s Executive Director Mary Monroe Brown pitched the idea for rerouting the Caps Trail to the City’s Natural Lands Preservation Advisory Board at…
A new trail work organization in Durango, Colorado called the Four Corners Freeride Coalition is hosting a work day on the Graysill Trail on the San Juan National Forest this Saturday, July 15th. Here’s a quick description of the work that’s being done, according to their website: “The goal this weekend is to take care of the major trenching and drainage issues from Cascade Divide Road down to Cascade Creek. As many of you understand that this is a quite a way out there, so if…
Please support mountain bike access and resist trail closures that were mentioned in the recently-published Hermosa Creek Watershed Management Plan Environmental Assessment by signing this petition. This petition is designed to help people with an email account to quickly send the drafted message below, or an easily edited version of it to the Forest Service after clicking the ‘Sign Now’ button and immediately after confirming ownership of their email address by checking their inbox. Also, please be patient for your signature to appear on the petition,…
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife has asked the U.S. Forest Service to exclude mountain bikers from two trails in response to the pre- decisional Hermosa Creek Watershed Management Plan Environmental Assessment. Specifically, the CPW is asking officials on the Columbine Ranger District to exclude mountain bikers from the Big Lick Trail, which has historically been open to mountain bikes. Additionally, the CPW is asking that mountain bikes be excluded from the West Cross Creek Trail, in the event that the trail is cleared and becomes…
Dear Columbine District Ranger Matthew Janowiak, I have several comments to make on the Hermosa Creek Watershed Management Plan Environmental Assessment. Among the four alternatives that the Forest Service has laid out in the document, I support Alternative 3 the most. Alternative 3 makes the most sense to me as a mountain biker and as a conservationist. Mountain bikes, electric bikes and the trails that they are ridden on are all compatible with conservation values. From my extensive experiences on foot and bike in the…
In the run up to the April 2017 election ballot initiative question about ending water fluoridation in Durango, campaign contributions poured in on both sides, with opponents of change having raised eight times more than Clean Water Durango, reports show. Among the roughly $40,000 dollars that was donated to the No […] Source: Campaign contributions made to defeat Durango’s fluoride-free ballot initiative – Clean Water Durango
An illegal trail and dozens of live trees along it were obliterated by employees of the U.S. Forest Service and Trails 2000, as well as volunteers from the San Juan Citizens Alliance, the San Juan Mountains Association and Garrett Coleman. Known as the Long Hollow Trail, Forest Service officials caught wind of the unauthorized trail after people complained about it being actively constructed by mountain bikers. Google Earth satellite imagery from April of 2006 confirms that the lower half of the trail existed at that point.…
On the Smart 160 Trail at the Bridge to Nowhere, a gaggle of CDOT, County, and City officials gathered on Tuesday to honor the work that’s been done on the Grandview Interchange, and to ask for another $100 million dollars to complete it. CDOT’s Executive Director Shailen Bhatt opened the dialogue by focusing on the importance of completing what the Regional Transportation Director Mike McVaugh described to him as the “Crossroads of the Four Corners.” Bhatt trash talked the existing Farmington Hill intersection, while saying…
Lieutenant Ray Shupe, the Durango Police Department’s “Public Information Officer” refused to comment about an arrest that was made outside Manna Soup Kitchen on April 25, 2017. Routinely, the Durango Police Department makes information regarding criminal activity in Durango difficult for independent journalists such as myself to obtain, despite their willingness to talk to reporters at the local establishment newspaper on the record. How the stonewalling works Shupe and other police officers withhold information from Horse Gulch Blog through the following systematic mechanisms: Police officers reached by…
Here’s a photo essay of the rerouting of Ella Vita Trailhead by Trails 2000 staff and volunteers. At least twenty volunteers were in attendance. Durango’s Assistant City Manager Kevin Hall as well as Durango’s Trail Crew Leader Sarah Humphrey were there. Read about why the trail was rerouted in Horse Gulch Blog’s, Ella Vita Court cul-de-sac to remain as trailhead following “Homeless Highway” crimes.
这位博客正在寻求帮助找到中国株洲市的You县精细化工厂或Tati氟化盐厂的摄影，录像或信息。 自从我们科罗拉多州杜兰戈市政府正在中国工厂用氟化钠对其饮用水进行氟化处理，我们想更多地了解生产过程。 氟化钠在哪里制作？我们可以看到化工厂的一些照片吗？ 工厂的工作条件如何？ 工厂对周边社区和环境有什么影响？ 我们对这种氟化钠装置的了解越多越好。 在Durango市坐落在其水处理厂的托盘上的Solvay氟化钠袋背面，以“中国制造”为名称，以“上海冶金发展有限公司” 这是一份相关文件，其中包括由美国保险商实验室进行的实验室分析，这是由上海冶金发展有限公司要求的氟化钠粉末。 Zhè wèi bókè zhèngzài xúnqiú bāngzhù zhǎodào zhōngguó zhūzhōu shì de You xiàn jīngxì huàgōngchǎng huò Tati fú huà yán chǎng de shèyǐng, lùxiàng huò xìnxī. Zìcóng wǒmen kēluōlāduō zhōu dùlángē shì zhèngfǔ zhèngzài zhōngguó gōngchǎng yòng fú huà nà duì qí yǐnyòng shuǐ jìnxíng fú huà chǔlǐ, wǒmen xiǎng gèng duō de liǎojiě shēngchǎn guòchéng. Fú huà nà zài nǎlǐ zhìzuò? Wǒmen kěyǐ kàn dào huàgōngchǎng de yīxiē zhàopiàn ma? Gōng chǎng de gōngzuò tiáojiàn rúhé?…
With the news tonight that Clean Water Durango lost its ballot initiative to end Durango’s water fluoridation program, it’s important that you know what it takes to protect yourself and your family from dental/skeletal fluorosis on your own dime. You can purchase a Burkey Water Filter Special Set with two black filters and two fluoride filters that’ll hold 3.25 gallons for $313.50 off of their website: https://theberkey.com/ . The City of Durango fluoridates the municipal drinking water to prevent dental decay. Water fluoridation has been questioned by…
It’s no secret that before the City of Durango put the fluoride issue to voters, representatives from the San Juan Basin Health Department spoke publicly about their pro-water fluoridation philosophy. At least one official at a City Council public hearing on January 30, 2017 was on the payroll of a grant that directed her to promote water fluoridation. Kari Plante, the Regional Oral Health Specialist for San Juan Basin Health Department, spoke publicly at the January public hearing while on the payroll of a grant that directed her…
Cathy Justus is coming to the Durango Public Library tonight from 6 to 7:30 p.m. to talk about the horses and dogs in Pagosa Springs that allegedly died from ingesting drinking water that was previously fluoridated by town officials. John Rothchild DDS will also speak at the library tonight about the real causes of tooth decay.
A proposal from Trails 2000 to groom the snow on trails in Horse Gulch 3 to 4 times a winter was officially quashed by the Natural Lands Preservation Advisory Board on Monday. Specifically, Trails 2000’s Executive Director Mary Monroe Brown asked for permission to groom Horse Gulch Road, Meadow Loop and Stacy’s Loop with a snowmobile during snowy winter months for fate bikers, hikers and skiers. Yet the possibility that a snowmobile dragging a groom roller would have impacts to wildlife was cited as reasons…
