Mike Corbin PWV Chair 2020-2021 -- 2020 was a very difficult year for PWV with both COVID and the Cameron Peak Fire. PWV made it thru the year and even accomplished a good deal with the help of all of our members. We were able to patrol, clear trails of trees, perform trail work and accomplished many other tasks due to our members hard work.
This coming year will be interesting for all of us. COVID will still be with us and the forest will still be burned. PWV will be working to get back to our normal functions of patrolling the trails so that we support the Forest Service and educate the public. A major project will be helping the Forest Service restore the trails that have been damaged. The objective will be to ensure the trails are safe for the public so that they can be opened and allow everyone to once again get out into the forest. From what we know today about 20 of our trails have sustained damage; the Forest Service is still evaluating how bad the damage is and what will be needed to allow each trail to be opened.
PWV, along with the Forest Service and other non-profits such as Wildlands Restoration Volunteers and Rocky Mountain Conservancy will be involved in working to restore these trails. This will not be a one-year project but will require several years of effort to get all the trails safe and again opened to the public. PWV and the Forest Service are now working to get the resources and plans in place to be ready next spring to start work on the trails. Prior to us working on these trails the Forest Service has to ensure that they are safe for our volunteers. Currently there are plans to have trail crews from both Larimer County Youth Corps and Rocky Mountain Conservancy working with our volunteers. We also plan to have work days open to the public so that the public who is interested can also take part.
I am looking forward to a busy but productive year this coming year and hope you will all come and join us. We can’t promise that everything will go smoothly but I think I can promise it will be interesting.
Mike Corbin
Chair, PWV Board of Directors, 2020-2021