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Tree Planting: Volunteer Opportunity
We have a weekend volunteer opportunity for you.
The weather has finally cooperated and provided some much needed moisture so FOMP will be holding a tree planting session! We will be planting 100′s of seedlings and helping them get a head start in the Preserve! These seedlings are hand selected and raised at the same altitude as the Preserve so they should have an excellent chance at surviving and enhanving the Preserve experience.
Saturday April 12, 2012 10:00 AM
- 10am at the Main Parking Lot, Nursery and Mount Herman Road.
- The planting will most likely be complete by 1pm
- This seedling planting will be in Honor of Mel Rezac a long time area resident and member of FOMP. We’ll be planting just West of his house.
- Wear long sleeves, jeans, gloves, sunscreen, and eye protection, bring a personal suply of drinking water.
- Learn from FOMP’s AFA Forester how to select a site for planting and ensure a seedlings success!
Thanks,
FOMP
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FOMP has just learned about a potential new open space project in Monument called Willow Springs Ranch. As some of you may recall Willow Springs Ranch was slated to become houses. That may chnage and your input is needed! We received the following information from one of our members.
To: Members and Friends of the Trails and Open Space Coalition
Please join us at an informational meeting about Willow Springs Ranch – Thursday, March 15th, 6:30 p.m. at Monument Town Hall.
The property was purchased with plans to create a housing development, but the developer no longer has the financial ability to go forward. There is an opportunity to turn a portion of the 260 acre ranch into open space. The meeting is intended to answer questions and gauge support for this project. The TOPS Working Committee and El Paso County Parks have expressed interest in this acquisition.
The willow springs ranch meeting is a letter that is going out to all neighbors.
FOMP strongly encourages you to attend if possible and make your voice heard.
Letter sent to the community (requires pdf)
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County Commissioners to examine Shooting
Colorado Springs, November 3, 2011 – On Tuesday, November 8th the El Paso Board of County Commissioners (BoCC) will hold a work session to discuss options to establish a public shooting range in El Paso County. Since the closure of the Rampart Shooting Range in 2009 the Commissioners have been approached multiple times to look into the creation of a public range.
The FOMP BOD strongly encourages you to participate in this meeting and make your voice heard.
BOD Meeting Reminder
Wednesday November 9, 2011 7:00PM
FOMP will hold a Board of Directors Meeting on Wednesday November 9, 2011 at 7:00PM. This is a change from our normal Tuesday timeslot because of Elections on Tuesday November 8. This is also the first BOD meeting in the classroon since the wind down of summer activites and on the trail BOD meetings so please join us!
BOD Meetings are held in the Fire Center Classroom. For those of you unfamiliar with the classroom building make your first left into the Fire Center after Mt. Herman Rd. turns to dirt, follow the road all the way into the administrative area and the classroom building is the first building on your right.
Agenda:
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Finances
- Summer season review
- 2012 Planning
- BoCC shooting meeting review
- other items
Thanks and we hope to see you there!
FOMP
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Active Fire Alert!
Active Fire Alert!
There is an actively burning fire just South of Mt. Herman and North of USAFA on the east face of the foothills.
The Monument Helitac crew and as well as other local resources are being dispatched along with other crews are and will be cutting lines and working on perimeter control. The fire is burning in Ponderosa Pine and brush. They will be managing for surpression and containment.
Location: Lat/Long 39.0492/104.9142 S31 T115 R67W
(Google map: http://bit.ly/ritB4V)
The USFS district is actively putting this information out on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/PSICC_NF
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Update: The fire now has a name:
#Beaver Creek Fire-Located just off of Mt. Herman Road North of the AFA. Additional resources ordered-Type 1 Helicopter and Air Supervision
Update:
Monument Helitac just dropped a crew in … but they look tiny up against the plumes of smoke and the acreage.
Updated Fire Restrictions
As you may have heard by now the Pike & San Isabel National Forests, Cimarron & Comanche National Grasslands have upgraded their fire restrictions going into the holiday weekend. The full text of the ban is below.
Have a great 4th of July weekend!
Thanks
FOMP
From the Pike NF Home Page
http://bit.ly/mOqvtF
Stage 2 Fire Restictions
Release Date: Jun 30, 2011
Contact(s): Barbara Timock
PUEBLO, Colo., June 29, 2011– As of today, Wednesday June 29, a Stage 2 fire restriction Order has been implemented by the Pike & San Isabel National Forests, Cimarron & Comanche National Grasslands (PSICC) in response to the severe wildfire threat in southern Colorado.
The public is prohibited from building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, charcoal broiler, or a coal or wood-burning stove, among other fire use activities.
The decision to move to these tighter restrictions is due to the high potential for human-caused fires, extremely dry conditions, and numerous fire starts in the area.
“Reducing the threat for new wildfires is one of the biggest priorities we have right now,” said Ralph Bellah, Fire Prevention Officer for the Pike & San Isabel National Forests, Cimarron & Comanche National Grasslands.
Affected areas include: Pike National Forest, San Isabel National Forest, Comanche National Grassland, Jefferson, Douglas, Park, El Paso, Teller, Chaffee, Fremont, Huerfano, Saguache, Custer, Las Animas, Baca, Otero and Pueblo Counties in Colorado.
National Forest Service lands in Lake County are exempt from this Order.
Woodcutters should be especially careful in these dry conditions. Make sure your chainsaw is equipped with an approved spark arrestor; be sure to have an 8 ounce fire extinguisher and a shovel when you are woodcutting.
The following acts are prohibited:
- Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, charcoal broiler, or a coal or wood-burning stove.
- Exception: Petroleum fueled stoves, lanterns, or heating devices providing such devices meet the fire underwriter’s specifications for safety are permitted.
- Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site, or while stopped in an area at least three (3) feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable material, or in areas posted by authorized Forest Officers.
- Welding, or operating acetylene or other torch with open flame.
- Using explosives requiring fuse blasting caps.
- Operating a chainsaw or other equipment powered by an internal combustion engine for felling, bucking, skidding, road building and woodcutting during industrial operations or fire wood gathering is prohibited from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Violation of these prohibitions is punishable as a Class B misdemeanor, by a fine of not more than $5,000 for an individual or $10,000 for a legal entity other than an individual, or imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both. Title 16 USC, Section 551.
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