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Agreement Signed to Support Recreational Shooting |
COLORADO- Nearly 20 different organizations and agencies signed an
agreement yesterday pledging to work together to provide recreational shooting
opportunities along Colorado’s Front Range.
The U. S. Forest Service,
Bureau of Land Management, Colorado Wildlife Federation, National Wild Turkey
Federation, Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW), Colorado State Parks and the
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, are just some of the organizations that agreed to
work together in order to provide safe and sustainable recreational shooting
opportunities.
“It is great to see such a diverse group of organizations
come together in an effort to provide opportunities that the public is
requesting,” said Glenn Casamassa, forest supervisor for the Arapaho, Roosevelt
National Forests and the Pawnee National Grassland for the U.S. Forest Service.
“We are all working toward a single goal and now we need ideas and we need to
take action.”
The objectives of this partnership are to:
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identify and assess potentially appropriate federal, state and private locations
for safe shooting range areas that are environmentally and economically
self-sustaining.
- develop local partnerships to construct, improve and
manage a wide range of sport shooting opportunities.
- establish on-going
communication, education and ethics programs on safe and environmentally sound
sport shooting opportunities for all ages.
A copy of the MOU and a list
of signers will be available on the DOW Web site in the near future.
Additional Information: Please contact
Tyler Baskfield for an electronic copy of the MOU and/or photos of the
signing.
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