Towards the end of the article, this blurb states:

The U.S. Forest Service is conducting a study to determine whether it will close about 200,000 acres of the Arapaho- Roosevelt National Forest west of Boulder to shooting, again because of conflict with creeping urbanization.
I wonder if this 200K that is being considered is part of the North Shoot area?

Typical that the Forest Service would consider this. It was only a matter of time.