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Biking
in Roxborough Park - Improvements
There are
some 2800 homes in the Roxborough area that have insufficient access to
the mountain bike trails surrounding them. Because they chose to live
here in such an outdoorsy environment, I imagine a large percentage of
the people in the area would agree with me.
It is unsafe
for us to get to the rest of the Denver biking system including the nearby
Colorado, Highline Canal, Waterton Canyon, Roxborough Park, Indian Creek,
Nelson Ranch or Chatfield reservoir trail systems. We have to get in our
polluting cars and take our bikes to the trailheads, sometimes 20 or more
miles away, although these places are within a few miles of our homes.
It is off
limits for us to access the Swallowtail Trail or Ringtail Trails because
of CO Wildlife restrictions on Sharptail Trail and because of State Park's
restrictions on Roxborough Park. We want to lessen impact on the wildlife
so opening the 4 miles of Sharptail to biking would be excessive,
1 - We need
to open the 1/3 mile link between county road 5 to Sharptail Trail. Bikers
are already allowed on both sides of that 1/3 of a mile so the impact
there would be the lesser of the two evils.
2 - We need
a bridge at the crosswalk on Waterton Road over the gully to the Highline
Canal. I saw some construction going on there, is that the plan?
3 - We need
a path connecting the neighborhoods along Rampart Range all the way to
Roxborough Park. This could LESSEN some impact on animals by eliminating
some resident's vehicles from entering the park at all. This would make
it safer and more convenient for residents too.
If we did
the above, we'd also open up this area's biking to the rest of the Denver
area and link the above mentioned trail systems. Some of that commercial
land near the entrance to Roxborough Park might actually sell if there
were people riding by. A bike shop? A hilltop restaurant overlooking the
reservoir?
I think it'd be a good idea for you to open a trail,
build a bridge, a bike path and a trailhead or two. If money's tight,
I understand, at least open a trail. I want to ride without driving or
getting killed.
I'd rather
not see this but you could charge money for bikes to pass through Roxborough
Park, just like cars do, then all the Denver area bikes coming to ride
at Nelson Ranch and onward will generate revenue for trail maintenance
or wildlife impact mitigation.
Mike S.
Selling
horses to "killer buyers"
Currently
the state of Colorado reaps the benefits of a 1.6 billion per year horse
industry, a staggering figure. Yet in this state and in this country there
are still horse auctions held on a monthly basis selling horses to "killer
buyers' for $ .10 to 1.00 per pound. These majestic creatures that represent
this country as well as the bald eagle are loaded on cattle trailers stacked
two high and shipped to states that allow horse slaughter.
This all
takes place at our local livestock auction facilities. These facilities
knowingly sell to the "killer buyers". Also attending these
auctions are a hand full of legitimate horse buyers and many many horse
rescues trying to save these poor horses. While some horses are lucky
enough to go to homes or rescues, hundreds and hundreds of horses find
themselves beaten and forced onto trailers made for cattle. Then inhumanly
sent to slaughter houses in Illinois and Texas to be inhumanly slaughtered,
packaged and shipped to Europe where horse meat is eaten. Currently there
is a bill before congress to band horse slaughter S. 1915. This bill needs
to pass to stop this slaughter of our beautiful majestic representative
of this country. Write to you local representatives and ask for their
support for this ban on horse slaughter. Currently the only Colorado state
representative that has supported this and act 503 is Diane Degette. Plea
to our State Senators to support this bill.
Jodi Messenich
Help.......
Does anyone have a good, valid explanation for the cause of our very own
late night and early morning gales? Since moving here in April, 2004,
I have heard lots of "causes", but none that sounded very reasonable.
Surely the question has been addressed....
Might make an interesting article for all to read.
Thanks in advance for your info..
Ray Mang
Reader Keith McKenzie wrote a letter to Marty
Coniglio, Meteorologist for Channel 9 News and allowed us to
publish his correspondence. Here is the answer to the early morning "mystery".
Our thanks to Keith for finding out.
Marty
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This
request below was sent to me from a resident of Roxborough Park. As I
live there also, I am curious too. We live behind the first hogback of
the Morrison Formation, and very often we experience morning (4:00A -
8:00A) winds of 20-35 mph, when on the other side of the hogback (not
.5 miles as the crow flies) which faces east and lies on flat terrain,
the winds will be negligible. These winds are primarily from the south
in the fall-winter, and from the south or northwest in the spring.
"Does
anyone have a good, valid explanation for the cause of our very own late
night and early morning gales? Since moving here in April, 2004, I have
heard lots of "causes", but none that sounded very reasonable.
Surely the question has been addressed....
Any
insight from your team? Thanks from your viewers in the Park.
Keith
McKenzie
The AdNov Group
http://www.adnov.com/
303.980.5433
Keith,
This is due to the katabatic wind that forms as the air cools along the
eastern slope of Mt.Evans. The cooler air becomes more dense and drains
into the lower elevations. In places where it is funneled due to narrow
openings in the terrain it accelerates due to the venturi effect of the
constricting terrain. This will be most common as times when we do not
have a powerful, dominant weather system that would direct winds along
pressure gradient lines as opposed to temperature gradient lines.
I hope that this solves your mystery.
Marty
Coniglio
Meteorologist
9NEWS
500
Speer
Denver,
CO 80203
303
871-1866
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