Meetings with citizens are first step
By Lynn Volkens
For several years, the Gilpin County commissioners have been exploring the possibility of developing a shooting range where law enforcement and private citizens can go to target shoot. Safety concerns have driven many of the shooting range discussions at the commissioners’ table, including issues with residents shooting on their own land without adequate backstops, and problems with people coming into Gilpin to shoot in the National Forest. Gilpin County and other areas containing forest lands have seen an increase in use for target shooting, conflicts arising from that use with other forest land uses such as hiking, and safety issues from private landowners whose properties abut forest lands. Recently Gilpin County joined Boulder, Clear Creek and Larimer counties, the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Service to form the Northern Front Range Recreational Sport Shooting (RSS) Management Partnership. On July 11, 2013, representatives from several of these organizations joined Gilpin County commissioners in an open house at the Community Center to talk about the opportunities of building shooting ranges in the four counties. Approximately fifty people attended.
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