Volunteers Needed!

Every year FOMP holds a potluck dinner for the Hotshot and Helitac crews that are based right here with us! This year it will be held Thursday April 24, at 5:30PM in the Fire Center Classroom building in the administrative area of the Preserve.

Both the the Monument Hotshot Crew and the Monument Helitack crew will be there, so we expect 30 very hungry young men and women + anyone else that attends. Everyone knows how hard they worked last year helping fight fires right here in Colorado and we want to give them a big welcome back and remind them of our appreciation. We need volunteers to make food for this potluck and need the following:

• Drinks
• Main Dishes
• Side Dishes/Salads
• Desserts

If would like to help, please contact Marianne LaRivee at 719-481-5936 / dmlarivee@comcast.net or Diane Bandle at 719-494-8206 /dmbandle@hotmail.com. If you want to help but are unable to attend you can make arrangements to drop off your food in advance on Thursday afternoon, or at the Fire Center Classroom between 4:30 and 5:30.

Thanks in advance for your help!
FOMP Board of Directors

The FOMP 2014 Trail Work calendar and next BOD meetings have been updated.

See the FOMP Calendar Page or Calendar Event List View and as always the upcoming events should be listed on the sidebar. The Calendar page contains links and info on how to add the calendar feed to iCal and Google calendar so you can always be up to date!

• Shooting Changes on MHR 
  • see FOMP website entry: New shooting rules on Mt. Herman Road!
• Any pre-election items, open board positions, etc. — Election postponed to April BOD meeting
• Hotshot potluck dinner early planning
• Preserve trail priorities. Other project priorities
• March 17th CSCS proposed trail day with Nic and Tim Watkins
• Scout project proposal off Red Rocks/MHR intersection.
• USFS special event permits being pulled by event coordinators for marathon in July, and adventure race in Oct. < 200 participants.
• Open forum for any discussion

In a small step in the right direction to make Mt. Herman Rd safer for all users the USFS has enacted some new shooting rules. you can read the order here: 2014 MHR Shooting Rules Change (Adobe PDF reader Required)

An original copy of the order may also be found on the PSICC Disctrict web site: http://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/psicc/alerts-notices

BOD Meeting for 3/11/2014 is cancelled due to weather. We will send out a re-scheduling email when we have a new date.

Be safe!

• Any election items, board positions re-uped, etc.
• Hotshot potluck dinner early planning
• Preserve trail priorities. Other project priorities
• March 17th CSCS proposed trail day with Nic and Tim Watkins
• Scout project proposal off Red Rocks/MHR intersection.
• USFS special event permits being pulled by event coordinators for marathon in July, and adventure race in Oct. < 200 participants.
• Open forum for any discussion

The FOMP Spring of 2014 Newsletter is out. Download it here (Adobe PDF reader required).

FOMP Spring 2014 Newsletter

Enjoy!