Where significant environmental damage or user conflicts occur as determined by the managing public lands agency, the trail must be closed to vehicles unless effective corrective regulations are enforced. The Indian Peaks Wilderness Area needs your help. Located west of Boulder along the Continental Divide, it is the most popular wilderness in the Rocky Mountains. The Indian Peaks Working Group is seeking volunteer backcountry wilderness hosts from late June to mid-September to hike and backpack the trails in the Indian Peaks Wilderness and to educate its visitors. They also need volunteers for trail-building and trail maintenance.
Hosts receive many benefits.
Some of those include resume quality experience, including U.S. Forest Service letters of reference, professional training and supervision, the opportunity to spend a minimum of three weekends or six days hiking, backpacking and enjoying this special alpine area - all fees waived, and the satisfaction of giving back something to an area which gives us so much pleasure. As Congress rushes to pass a flood relief bill, lawmakers are tossing controversial pieces of legislation into the mix in hopes of floating then through unnoticed. But the worst of its riders could send bulldozers barreling over endangered species habitat and through national parks and wilderness areas. One rider, introduced by Alaska Republican Ted Stevens, chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, takes a shot at federal control of public lands. If it passes it will resurrect R.S. 2477, a Civil War-era law that made it easy for settlers to build roads on federal lands.