Jefferson County's National Forests Need Travel Plan

We were saddened to hear of the lifelong local elk hunter who recently stopped setting up camp near Pipestone, where a quiet dirt road crossed a ribbon of creek. As the jeep and side-by-side traffic has increased lately, his little hideaway among the aspens has become a destination of rock obstacles and glistening pools, where Search and Rescue regularly turns up to save bogged down, inexperienced drivers.

Jefferson County – where sagebrush flats climb through boulders and forest to the Continental Divide, just off I-90, and creeks trickle from hidden draws and ridges of lodgepole pine and fir...