Rampart Shooting Range Cleanup - 25 April 09

[shilly]

COLORADO: Shooting Area Clean-Up Day Scheduled on Two National Forests
The Front Range Shooting Sports Partners (FRSSP) has scheduled Saturday, April 25 to clean-up two popular shooting sites. One is an informal area on the Pawnee National Grassland in Weld County, and the other is the South Rampart Shooting Range on the Pike National Forest west of Colorado Springs. The FRSSP is a coalition that was formed several years ago to address the needs of recreational shooters along the Front Range. Partners in the coalition are the Colorado Division of Wildlife, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Firearms Coalition of Colorado, Safari Club International, Colorado Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and 11 other state and private organizations. The clean up project is the first of its kind scheduled by the FRSSP. For further information on the Pawnee clean-up, please contact tjwilliams@fs.fed.us or call 970-295-6693. For the Rampart Range clean-up, please contact Richard Gandolf at dicknjudy@q.com or call 719-597-2722. For more details you may also go to http://wildlife.state.co.us/hunting/...sportspartners. If you shoot on federal lands in the state and are within reasonable driving distance of these sites, you would be making a tremendous contribution to the future of recreational shooting on federal lands if you could volunteer your time on April 25th at either site. If you can volunteer, we would appreciate you wearing a ball cap, jacket or other item that identifies you as a NRA member.

[Chief_of_Scouts]

Just a reminder...

We will be meeting at the Rampart Range shooting area Saturday morning. Weather is supposed to be nice and looks like a good chance to meet some fellow forum members. Also, might be a good opportunity to make some sales/buys/trades of items.

It doesn't matter what your organization or affiliation is, just come out to support your community.

See you there.

[Marlin]

I'd like to be there but, at this point I need to go to the one that pays....

Doing some work for a friend,, and since She is paying a little more than volunteer work does at the moment... I'd better go do that...

If it means anything,, Thanks to all who do show up...

[Aloha_Shooter]

I headed out that way this morning but the temperatures and light rain after breakfast made it seem improbable that the cleanup was a go. By the time things seemed to clear up a little, I was already engaged in a number of errands. Can anyone tell me if it DID take place or has been rescheduled?

[xjtwo]

I know there is a dumpster up there, at least there was yesterday..............

[Ridge]

I headed out that way this morning but the temperatures and light rain after breakfast made it seem improbable that the cleanup was a go. By the time things seemed to clear up a little, I was already engaged in a number of errands. Can anyone tell me if it DID take place or has been rescheduled?

Yup, we were there....visibility was at around 15-20ft most of the day...cleaned up a metric shit-ton of shotgun shells and various items that might have been targets at one time...saw a water heater and a microwave, though all that remained of either was just sheet metal...

About 3-3:30pm, the clouds moved out and we could actually see again!

[kidicarus13]

I never shoot there but GOOD JOB GUYS!

[Chief_of_Scouts]

Too bad the weather scared off a few ninnys

Although it was a little chilly and wet, we still had approximately 60 people show up. As you can see, we filled the dumpster and than some.

There will likely be a few more cleanups this Summer. There is plenty left to cleanup, so please spread the word and let's keep this range off the endangered species list.