TU members respond to Alpine Triangle critics
TU’s proposal that local residents in southwest Colorado consider additional protections for the scenic, high-altitude public land known as the Alpine Triangle has been welcome in both Ouray and Hinsdale Counties. Not so in San Juan County, where citizens interested in reviving Silverton’s mining industry attacked the proposal, put forward by the Sportsmen’s Conservation Project, as the first move in a secret federal plan to designate the area a national park. As demonstrated in their actions at public meetings, and in letters published in the Silverton Standard & The Miner, San Juan County’s newspaper, opponents appear much more interested in frightening their local government officials than in looking at the facts of the matter.
In a letter written in response to a hasty resolution passed by the San Juan County Commissioners, TU members Bernie Krystyniak of Lake City, Anthony Chelf of Ouray and Thomas Jones of Durango not only set the record straight, but demonstrate once again that local members are indespensible to the work TU takes on nationwide. Read the response here.
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