Dear Reader
Finally, some good news.
Because of your efforts, we have secured a public meeting with Superintendent Darla Sidles and her staff at Rocky Mountain National Park.
Now we need your help one more time. Please review the goals below and let us know if you want to participate in this meeting, either in person or via Zoom.
The meeting will take place before Christmas. That doesn’t give us much time. But stay tuned for more details. You’ll hear back soon.
Our goals are simple.
- Get a commitment to continue the conversation with the public before any meaningful decisions are made on the reservation system for 2022.
- Give you the chance to communicate how unfair, undemocratic, and unnecessary the reservation system is.
- Find out on what scientific basis decisions will be made (and by whom) with regard to the reservation system going forward.
Please respond and let us know if you're available and willing to participate. Our email addresses are below.
We’ll try to do it at a time where as many of you can join if you’d like. You can join in remotely via Zoom (we’ll send you a link). Or you if you’re in Estes Park or on the Front Range, you can visit in person.
Regards (and thanks again for your passion to keep public lands open to the American people),
Daniel and Thomas Denning
dan.denning@gmail.com
thdenning@gmail.com
PS Thanks again if you submitted a comment to the Town of Estes Park last month. Not a single member of the public who wrote it supported the Park’s plans for the same reservation system in 2021. The Trustees communicated some of your concerns to Superintendent Sidles.
But, inexplicably, a decision had already been made. We think a face-to-face meeting—and a chance for you to speak directly with NPS administrators—can show them, respectfully, how strong public feeling is on this issue. At the very least, direct communication is a lot more transparent.
And we personally believe that if the Superintendent hears directly from the public--your stories, your concerns, your views--then it may help her see that the public interest and the preservation of the Park for the unimpaired enjoyment of all Americans (present AND future) are not served by the current course of action.