🚀 go-pugleaf

Scott Weiser wrote
>
>So, you'll just have to get used to the sound of gunfire as you
>jog...or bike...or go somewhere else.  You *don't * get to reserve the
>*whole* county for your personal pleasure, you know....
>
It happens to be my back yard, and a lot of other people's back yards, too.
More than 100 homes are in the 1.8 mile radius Epp says is uninhabited
surrounding the proposed site.

We're not talking a small range like the Rifle Club has run without incident
across Nelson on the dairy farm, or a handfull of Commerce Dept. officers
plunking away in the current quarry pit to keep their guns clean either.
The kind of site needed is just like the site they are currently using, but
with the changes required, like ownership by Boulder County.  This is the
easier solution and can be effected with similar intra-governmental
cooperation as Epp has attempted with the Commerce Dept.

>>This area has been untouched since the front range was settled 120 years
ago
>>and is home to a special island of wildlife, including deer, mountain
lyon,
>>coyote, fox, golden and bald eagles, large horned owls, redtail hawks,
>>racoons, skunks, prairie dogs and much more.
>
>Excuse me?  It's a barren gravel plain covered with diffuse knapweed
>and has been used to mine gravel, not to mention the fact that there
>are a couple of large radiotelescopes on the top....
>
Well, pearls before swine...
>
>The shooting range near Erie is a private shooting park, it does not
>belong to the county.

That can be changed and more easily than can the expansion of a full scale
range on Table Mountain.  It's an ideal spot that can easily be made to suit
the future needs of the police and sheriff's departments.  I think what is
really at issue for Epp is how tempting Table Mountain seems: so close to
town and so under utilized.  I think he will find he has a big fight on his
hands, like the gravel mining group had, to ask the Commisioners for
approval on this.  They shut down the mining request for expansion.  I will
be working to see that they do the right thing again.

Sorry, Scott.  We live in Boulder, not Rock Springs, Wy.