US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region

Bureau of Land Management, Colorado

For Immediate Release: February 25, 2008

CONTACTS: Janelle Smith, US Forest Service, 303-275-5359 (office) or 720-289-7587 (cell)

Jaime Gardner, Bureau of Land Management, 303-239-3681 (office) or 303-589-2795 (cell)

Colorado Recreation Resource Advisory Committee Meeting

DENVER, Feb. 25, 2007 – The Colorado Recreation Resource Advisory Committee (Recreation RAC) will convene in Denver on February 27, 2008. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m., and will be held at the REI Denver Flagship store at 416 Platte St, Denver, CO.

This is the first meeting to address fee proposals, of which there are 23 from five Colorado forests and grasslands. The Recreation RAC will not consider any BLM fee proposals at this meeting. Follow this link for details about each proposal being reviewed: http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/recreation/rrac/meetings/022708-meeting/proposals/proposals-index.shtml

Additional topics will be discussed to help inform Recreation RAC members as they engage with the agency’s recreation programs.Members of the public interested in recreation fees in Colorado may attend; general comments may be entertained from 8:45 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. Comments may be taken during discussions on specific topics at the discretion of the Chair. Those who are interested in commenting, please contact Pam DeVore at 303-275-5043 or pdevore@fs.fed.us. Individual comment presentations will be limited to five minutes. Registration for comment period will be required at the door.

Written comments are encouraged, particularly if the material cannot be presented within five minutes, and should be sent to Greg Griffith, Deputy Regional Forester (also the Designated Federal Official for the Recreation RAC) at the US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Regional Office, 740 Simms Street, Golden, Colorado 80401. Written statements received less than one week prior to the meeting may not be available to the members until after the meeting.

The Recreation RAC was established as part of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to provide recommendations on fee proposals for the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in Colorado. Recreation RAC members were selected among applicants to represent 11 interests to include motorized, non-motorized, environmental, Indian tribes, local government and others from throughout the state.

Visit the Colorado Recreation Resource Advisory Committee web page for additional information at: http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/recreation/rrac/index.shtml

###