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Colorado Roadless Areas Review Task Force

The Roadless Areas Review Task Force was a bipartisan, 13-member group created under Senate Bill 05-243 to develop official recommendations regarding the management of roadless areas in National Forests in Colorado, including what uses, if any, would be allowed in the applicable forest areas. The task force gathered and weighed Colorado’s interests through 9 public meetings, 40,000 public comments, and 7 task force deliberative meetings. The Keystone Center designed and implemented the process, including facilitating and summarizing all the Task Force deliberative and the public meetings across the state, developing an issues assessment tool to define the critical issues and possible solutions, and communication with Task Force members between meetings.

Task force recommendations were provided to Governor Bill Owens in October 2006. The Governor submitted Colorado’s petition to the United States Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Committee on behalf of the State of Colorado on November 13, 2006.

Senate Bill 05-243

Senate Bill 05-243 defines applicable forest areas as “the approximately four million four hundred thousand acres of United States forest lands located in Colorado that were identified as roadless in a set of inventoried roadless area maps contained in the National Forest Service's roadless area conservation final Environmental Impact Statement, volume 2, dated November 2000, and held at the National Headquarters of the Forest Service.”

Public Meetings

Date
 National Forest(s) Discussed Meeting Location Meeting Materials
11-02-2005 Grand Mesa-Uncompahgre-Gunnison Delta, CO Agenda/Summary
12-09-2005 San Juan Durango, CO Agenda/Summary
01-06-2006 Pike-San Isabel Pueblo, CO Agenda/Summary
02-24-2006 All National Forests in Colorado Denver, CO Agenda/Summary
03-17-2006 Arapaho-Roosevelt Fort Collins, CO Agenda/Summary
05-18-2006 Routt Steamboat Springs, CO Agenda/Summary
06-07-2006 Rio Grande Monte Vista, CO Agenda/Summary
06-21-2006 White River Glenwood Springs, CO Agenda/Summary
06-22-2006 Grand Mesa-Uncompahgre-Gunnison and Manti-La Sal Grand Junction, CO Agenda/Summary

Task Force Deliberative Meetings

Date                Meeting Type Meeting Materials
10-07-2005  Organizational Meeting         Agenda/Summary
11-02-2005 Business Meeting Agenda/Summary
12-09-2005 Business Meeting Agenda/Summary
01-06-2006 Business Meeting Summary
02-10-2006 Deliberative Meeting Agenda/Summary
04-14-2006 Deliberative Meeting

Agenda/Summary
06-08-2006 Deliberative Meeting Agenda/Summary
06-22-2006 Deliberative Meeting Agenda/Summary
07-19-2006 Deliberative Meeting The agenda for this meeting was to work through an Aggregate Proposal document and build agreements in principle.
Summary
08-03-2006 Deliberative Meeting

Agenda
The summary from the meeting was revised recommendation language.
09-11-2006 Deliberative Meeting Agenda
The summary from this meeting was the final recommendation language.

Please note that Task Force meetings were open to the public.

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