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Connecting the Community That Supports the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail President’S Letter The Continental Divide Trail Coalition Magazine Volume 11, December 2017 Connecting the community that supports the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail President’s Letter As the Continental As friends of the CDT and public lands, we can help to Divide Trail Coalition educate these new arrivals (as well as long-term residents!) planned trail building and create more passionate trail users who understand projects, organized that we can’t take these things for granted. Threats to sell volunteers and then off public lands, to reduce the size of national monuments implemented our trail and to undermine the strength of the Forest Service and work this summer, I other agencies are very real, and we will be lucky just to was reminded again hold the line over the next few years. Our mission to create of the importance of a community committed to constructing, promoting and volunteerism and of protecting the CDT is more important than ever. nonprofit partners You are our best advocates. Take someone new out for a working with our day hike, trail ride or backpacking trip on our public lands. federal land managers Tell your friends, neighbors and coworkers about your love to steward and maintain for public lands in general, and the CDT in particular, and our public lands. encourage them to give back. With continued uncertainty in the federal budgeting For some people, time to actually get out and volunteer process, our land managers face increasing maintenance may be rare, but a small donation to CDTC goes a backlogs, meaning many campgrounds, roads and trails will long way. As we grow our organization, we will be able continue to be neglected. Less staff means fewer trail crews to improve trail information and outreach, expand our out clearing blowdowns or repairing tread. 2017 was a very network of volunteers and trail adopters, and increase the active fire season and even fewer resources will be directed amount of volunteer projects. to recreation and trails. Thank you for your continued support for the CDTC and Federal land manager budgets are not going to increase our public lands. Please consider a year-end donation as a anytime soon. Nonprofit organizations like CDTC will way to demonstrate your commitment to our mission. need to become even stronger in order to assist with trail building, signing, maintenance and information collection. In Colorado, where we have witnessed a population increase of more than 500,000 residents from 2010 to 2016, there is greatly increased public land usage but no commensurate increase in budget. Seven of the ten fastest growing states in 2016 were western states with vast public lands. Many of these new residents come for the outdoor lifestyle, including recreating on public lands. As I’m sure many of you have experienced, trailheads are busier, trails themselves are more crowded and many trail users are not familiar with outdoor ethics like Leave No Trace or yielding to horse riders. Along with the challenges of higher usage, more potential user conflicts and greater impacts on the Continental Divide Trail and other trails, these new residents also represent a great opportunity. How many people appreciate the work that went into building a trail? Or know that these trails have to be maintained regularly to provide for an appropriate trail experience? People tend to complain when a trail is in bad shape, but how many thank the federal employees, volunteers and partner groups that work Colorful Buttes of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico hard to provide trail users with a world-class experience? 2 In this issue... CDTC BOARD Josh Shusko President, Co-Foounder New Resources Available from CDTC! Barney Scout Mann 4 Vice President Kerry Shakarjian Secretary Chris Nesset Trail Administrator’s Update Treasurer 8 Don Owen CDTC Board Member at Large Greg Pierce Member at Large Speak Up For Your Public Lands Steve Sherwood 9 Member at Large Bryan Martin Immediate Past President, Co-Founder CDTC STAFF 11 Gateway Community Spotlight: Lincoln, MT Teresa MartinezLincoln, Montana Executive DirectorA CDT Gateway Community Guthrie Alexander Conservation Program Manager Plants and Animals of the CDT Jenny Gaeng 13 Gateway Community Coordinator Chad Angell Field Program Manager Rachel Brown CDTC Staff Attends PCTA Trail Skills College Trail Information Specialist 15 Morgan Anderson Field Coordinator Amy Van der Kamp Finance Manager 16 CDTC Store Slide Kelly GIS/Conservation Seasonal Specialist Dana Foulks Passages Designer CDTC Volunteer Season Wrap-Up Cover imnage: Glacier National Park by 21 Heidi “China Rock” Zhang The CDTC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. 25 News Release: Land Purchase Passages – The Continental Divide Trail Coalition Magazine 3 New Resources Available from CDTC! CDTC staff have been hard at work this summer volunteers, and enthusiasts. Read on for a preview of these developing several new resources for CDT trail users, exciting new resources coming soon! CDT Adopter Map The CDT Adopter Map is coming soon to the CDTC adoptable sections of the CDT and connect with the CDT website! Keep a lookout for this interactive map that will community. allow current and prospective CDT Adopters to identify -108°20' -108°19' -108°18' -108°17' 13.5 13 CDT Strip Maps 31°36' 12.5 31°36' Free strip maps covering the entire Continental Divide 12 National Scenic Trail will be available soon on our website. 11.5 These maps were created with data from the Forest Service CDT Data Set. They are scaled at 1 inch = 1/2 mile and 11 31°35' include waypoints for water sources, road crossings, trail 31°35' junctions, and more. 10.5 10 9.5 9 31°34' 31°34' 8.5 8 7.5 31°33' 7 31°33' 6.5 -108°20' -108°19' -108°18' -108°17' PAGE AT A GLANCE 0 mi 0.25 0.5 1 TN MN NEW MEXICO WGS84 UTM Zone 12N N Scale 1:31,680, 1in = 0.5mi D e c l i n a t i o n 9 /2 0 /2 0 1 7 0 km 0.5 1 TN to MN: 8.848° Section 01 6.5-13.5 La Ventana Arch in El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico Annual Drift: -0.095° Base: ESRI USGS The National Map © 2017 Mexico Border to NM State Highway 81 Data: United States Forest Service © 2017 Maps: © CDTC 2017. All Rights Reserved. V1.0 Please help us continue to provide resources like t his by donating or becoming a CDTC member at continentaldividetrail .org. 002 4 CDT Planning Guide CDTC staff have developed a planning guide for anyone resupply planning. The guide is available for free as a PDF preparing for an adventure along the Continental on our website: http://continentaldividetrail.org/product/ Divide Trail. The guide covers topics such as permits, cdt-planning-guide/ transportation to the trail, safety, Leave no Trace, and The CDT at a glance crossing into the Vasquez Peak and then James Peak Wilderness Areas. It then meets the majestic Rocky The CDT, like other National Scenic Trails, crosses land owned and Mountain National Park and tthen Mt. Zirkel Wilderness with its countless glacial lakes, before entering managed by many Federal and State public land agencies. The Forest Wyoming. Weather patterns on the Colorado CDT boast a typical high-alpine element of surprise, so Service is the administrator of the CDT with more than 70% of the trail preparedness and experience are not just recommended; they are required. miles, but the trail also crosses many miles of BLM and National Park Service land. WWyomingyoming The 550 miles of the CDT in WyWyoming enters from Colorado in the Sierra Madre Mountain Three Public Land Agencies, One Trail Range of the Medicine Bow anand Routt National Forests. Here it crosses Battle Pass and travels North to Bridger Peak to overlook the historic copper-mining town of Encampment, before entering into the GreatGre Divide Basin. It then moves through the west side of the spectacular Wind River Range before entering the craggy mountains of the Teton Wilderness. It 2150 Miles across 20 National Forests enters the eastern borderborde of Yellowstone National Park and then crosses between the glassy- blue surface of Yellowstone Lake and the white rapids of the Firehole River, wanders past Old Faithful Geyser, and traversestraver the Summit Lake Trail before entering Idaho. The CDT in Wyoming is 381 Miles across 13 BLM Field Offices inhabited by long-taillon weasels, coyotes, wild horses, antelope, and grizzly and black bears, and of course,cours wolves. It is also home to the forget-me-not and the alpine buttercup. 279 Miles across 4 National Park Service Units MMontanaont & Idaho From Summit Lake Trail in Wyoming, the CDT meanders along the Idaho- MoMontana border for 80 miles through the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National New Mexico FoForest. In Montana, approximately 980 miles of the Trail travel through The 775 miles of the CDT in New Mexico begin at the Mexico border in thehe Big Hatchets Wilderness the rocky peaks of the Anaconda range, inhabited by the mountain goat, Study Area and then head across the grayish limestone outcrops of the Bigg Hatchet Mountains, winding mule and whitetail deer, moose and elk, and wanders around Butte, a through the arid New Mexico desert before reaching the rugged, forested mountains of the Gila National century-old copper town. From here it heads north through many National Forest, and one of country’s most spectacular Wilderness Areas, the Aldo Leopold. The Trail continues Forests, including Lewis and Clark, through the Bob Marshall Wilderness, north across the “Badlands” of the El Malpais National Monument, one of the best examples of recent and finally up to Glacier National Park.
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