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The environment desk at Aspen Public Radio covers issues in the Roaring Fork Valley and throughout the state of Colorado including water use and quality, impact of recreation, population growth and oil and gas development. APR’s Environment Reporter is Elizabeth Stewart-Severy.

Restoration work to close Hanging Lake Trail

Courtesy of U.S. Forest Service

The Hanging Lake Trail in Glenwood Canyon will be closed tomorrow as volunteer crews work on final stages of a restoration project.

Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers will build on work they completed last year at the widely popular trail. About 130,000 hikers make the 1.25 mile walk every year. Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers executive director David Hamilton said this means maintenance needs are high.

“The trail just gets way more use than it can handle,” Hamilton said. “The lake itself is a very rare thing. And so having people in it with sunscreen and makeup and all that sort of stuff really destroys the environment.”

Volunteers will be installing chain to protect sensitive habitat, removing graffiti and more.

Click here to sign up to volunteer

Aspen native Elizabeth Stewart-Severy is excited to be making a return to both the Red Brick, where she attended kindergarten, and the field of journalism. She has spent her entire life playing in the mountains and rivers around Aspen, and is thrilled to be reporting about all things environmental in this special place. She attended the University of Colorado with a Boettcher Scholarship, and graduated as the top student from the School of Journalism in 2006. Her lifelong love of hockey lead to a stint working for the Colorado Avalanche, and she still plays in local leagues and coaches the Aspen Junior Hockey U-19 girls.
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