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Tolland Ranch Trail Construction Project in Boulder County and Gilpin County, Colorado DocuSign Envelope ID: 28648D48-9B2A-49B7-A6F9-AB3A4FA33DE7 Resolution No. 2019-81 A Resolution Supporting the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Non-Motorized Trails Construction Projects for the Tolland Ranch Trail Construction Project in Boulder County and Gilpin County, Colorado. WHEREAS, the County of Boulder is requesting $250,000.00 from Colorado Parks and Wildlife to fund a trails construction project; and WHEREAS, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has requested that the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Boulder ("BOCC") state its support forthe Colorado Parks and Wildlife grant application for the Tolland Ranch Trail Construction Project in Boulder County and Gilpin County, Colorado; and WHEREAS, Colorado Parks and Wildlifehas requested that the BOCC verifyth at the property targeted forthe proposed project will be under the control of the applicant fora t least 25 years; and WHEREAS, the Tolland Ranch Trail Construction Project will provide important trail opportunities in the counties of Boulder and Gilpin, which are of importance to Boulder County. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF BOULDER THAT: 1. The BOCC supports the application to Colorado Parks and Wildlife for the Tolland Ranch Trail Construction Project. 2. The BOCC verifiesthat the county holds a public trail easement that shall run with the land in perpetuity and shall benefit and be binding upon the parties, their respective heirs, successors, representatives and assigns so long as the trail constructed and functioningby January 7, 2025. See Public Trail Easement attached hereto as Exhibit A. If Boulder County is awarded the grant from Colorado Parks and Wildlife, it can assure that the Tolland Ranch Trail is constructed and functioning by January 7, 2025, which will make the public trail easement perpetual. 3. The BOCC hereby authorizes the expenditure of funds as reflected in the grant application as necessary to meet the terms and obligations of the grant agreement and application. 4. The BOCC assures that it has the ability to complete this project and is committed to ensuring long-term trail maintenance. This resolution is in full force and effect from and afterits passage and approval. 1. SCOPE (Proposed Project) (10 Points) EXHIBIT A The Tolland Ranch Trail lies within a public trail easement on private lands in the Arapaho Roosevelt National Forest in Boulder and Gilpin Counties just east of the James Peak Wilderness Area and immediately south of Eldora Mountain Resort. Boulder County obtained the public trail easement in 2015 as part of a larger conservation easement for the Tolland Ranch. At the time of acquisition, the easement consisted of a 650 foot-wide (200 meter-wide) planning corridor with the centerline that represented the preliminary trail alignment. Since that time, a final alignment for a 12 to 18-inch-wide natural surface backcountry trail has been designed. The total trail length is approximately 6 miles. The public trail easement will be reduced to a 30 foot width once the trail has been constructed. While small features typical of a backcountry trail such as rock retaining walls, trail armoring, and causeways will be needed, no major infrastructure elements are planned. In addition to trail construction, extensive lengths of social trails and other unsustainable access routes will be reclaimed over the course of the project. The overall objective for the Tolland Ranch Trail is to provide a single, well-designed, non- motorized regional connection across private lands between two highly utilized trail systems on U.S. Forest Service lands: the Magnolia Trails system to the east and the Jenny Creek/Rollins Pass area system to the west. Trail design is complete and ready to bid for construction and implementation of volunteer projects. Generally, the trail can be divided into three segments for ease of description: an eastern, middle, and western segment. The eastern segment of the trail begins in a majestic meadow at the southwestern boundary of the Magnolia Trails area at the western end of the School Bus Trail. A map of the trail network planned by USFS is available here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd516177.pdf. As required in the easement for the Tolland Ranch Trail, a gate or other control feature will be located at this trail gateway near the property boundary that can be used to close the trail in the winter when Eldora Mountain Resort (Eldora) is open and the system of Nordic trails located near the Tolland Ranch Trail are being operated. Proceeding west from this gate, the trail will travel through a heavily forested area and will climb the northeastern aspect of Buckeye Mountain with several compact switchbacks to reach a ridge. The middle section of the trail is located below and along a ridge between Buckeye Mountain and the Black Hills Mine site to the west. The Black Hills Mine is the most visually prominent cultural resource in the corridor. Along the way, various openings in the forest canopy afford magnificent views to the Tolland settlement in the Boulder Park valley below, as well as Mammoth Gulch, James Peak, and other prominent features along the Continental Divide. Prospect pits and other historic mining features are commonly encountered along this trail segment. The western section of the trail will gently descend north and west from the Black Hills Mine site using wide switchbacks and ultimately terminating in the Dead Man’s Gulch area which is located within the Eldora’s Nordic area. From Dead Man’s Gulch, the trail will proceed west on an existing two-track that will join up with the Jenny Creek Road /Trail on USFS lands. A single-track trail connection (Segment A) is planned for the hillside above and to the north of the two-track. Involvement from Eldora and from USFS for a short segment of connector trail located on USFS lands is desired to finalize the alignment. However, since the two-track is a viable route, Segment A is not needed in order to complete the Tolland Ranch Trail connection between the Magnolia Trails area and the Jenny Creek Trail and greater Rollins Pass area. EXHIBIT A 2. SCOPE (Access/Trail Connections) (5 points) The Tolland Ranch Trail will complete 6 miles of backcountry trail that connects two existing USFS trail systems: the Magnolia Trails system to the east and the Jenny Creek/Rollins Pass area to the west. Once complete, this trail segment will offer a unique opportunity to provide non-motorized trail connectivity from the Town of Nederland through the Magnolia Trails area, across Tolland Ranch, and west to the Jenny Creek/Rollins Pass Road area and toward the Continental Divide. Constructing this trail linkage between these two systems will result in a network of more than 100 miles of contiguous, legal trail and forest road. From a user perspective, that creates a lot of new opportunity for variety and extended-use by adding a relatively small amount of trail. At a regional level, the Tolland Ranch Trail may serve at some point in the future as a segment of larger non-motorized regional trail that stretches from the plains to the peaks (Erie to Winter Park). Trail advocates in our community are referring to such a trail as the Indian Peaks Traverse. In the meantime, this trail will immediately provide an extension of the destination experience provided on USFS lands at and accessed via the Magnolia Trails system. From a visitor's perspective, the Tolland Ranch Trail would leverage the Magnolia Trails system to create an unprecedented extended-descent otherwise unavailable in Boulder County adding value to the reputation of the Magnolia Trails area for having the largest concentration and variety of mountain bike-allowed single-track in Boulder County. In addition, the planned Tolland Ranch Trail may serve as a segment of the only trail initiating in Boulder County with potential through-access to the Continental Divide that allows mountain bike use. This opportunity is unique since all of Boulder County's western boundary is designated as wilderness within the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area or lies within Rocky Mountain National Park. Mechanized travel across the divide is prohibited in both the wilderness and the park. While the benefits to backcountry mountain bike users are readily apparent, if the ski resort is supportive of and permitted to provide summer time public access to the trail through their property in the future, the western segment of the trail would be instantly more accessible to hikers, equestrians, and trail runners for shorter excursions closer to access points more accessible by vehicle. The connectivity the Tolland Ranch Trail provides on so many levels will create such a unique recreational opportunity easily accessible to thousands of visitors a year for visitors from Nederland, Boulder, the greater Boulder County area, and the Front Range. 3. NEED (10 Points) EXHIBIT A The primary need for the Tolland Ranch Trail is to complement and enable meeting the objectives identified in the USFS’s Magnolia Non-motorized Trails project. For the USFS Boulder Ranger District (the District), the Magnolia Trails area was identified in the Caribou-West Magnolia EA in 2003 as the recommended location within the District for a mountain biking destination (see Magnolia Trails 2016 2016 Recreation Specialist Report, p.2). And, as identified by the District Ranger in her Decision Notice authorizing the Magnolia Trails Project, “over the past couple of decades, this trail system has experienced a substantial increase in recreational use, including unauthorized construction. This has led to resource damage, trail damage, and unmanaged recreation…Trail system improvements are needed to comply with the intent of the Forest Plan direction to provide outdoor recreation opportunities and to reduce visitor conflicts and resource impacts (2016 Decision Notice, p.1).” This unmanaged recreation has proliferated onto the privately-owned Tolland Ranch where unauthorized recreation has resulted in a maze of social trails created by motorized and non-motorized users.
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