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Resident urges Boulder County to find shooting‑range site as neighboring counties close national‑forest shooting areas
Summary
A Raymond resident urged the board to identify and open a public shooting range to allow the Forest Service to close unsafe, undesignated shooting sites on national forest land; commissioners said locating suitable sites has been complicated by land ownership and ranger‑district boundaries.
BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — A mountain‑area resident urged Boulder County commissioners on Sept. 4 to take immediate action to locate and open a public shooting range so the U.S. Forest Service can close dangerous, undesignated shooting areas on national forest land. Bill Ellis, a resident of Raymond, told the board that recreational shooting in undesignated locations poses risks from errant bullets, ricochets, wildfire and metal contamination. “The danger of errant bullets, ricochets, threat of…
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