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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.

Advisory board established in Snowmass to tame the trails

Elizabeth Stewart-Severy/Aspen Public Radio News

Snowmass Village Town Council has created a new advisory board, with a focus on parks, open space, trails and recreation.

Snowmass Village has about 1,400 acres of open space and 30 trails. Now there will be a board of 7 to 15 citizens to advise town council on related decisions and issues. Those members will be appointed by elected officials. Andy Worline, director of the parks department, said balance is key in forming this commission.

“We need hikers, we need mountain bikers, we need equestrians,” he said, and those interested in recreational programs like yoga and team sports, as well.  

Worline said the board will set its own priorities based on a department-wide management plan that the town adopted last fall. At the top of the list now is trail etiquette among all users.

Applications will be available next week, with a goal of convening the new board in the first quarter of the year.

 

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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