Did you know that in addition to the annual migration of hummingbirds, North Cheyenne Cañon is a high critical habitat for the endangered Mexican Spotted Owl? Speak for the voiceless and stop polluting, inconveniencing buses in North Cheyenne Cañon. Send an email to City Council asking them to support the Appeal of the North Cheyenne Cañon Master Plan copying us and the press for transparency. Attend the City Council session explain in update letter. Looking for what to say? Read Ruth Obee's email reprinted below or look at old updates of petition for other sample email objections. This is our last chance! Email: allcouncil@springsgov.com and copy: savecheyennemountain@gmail.com, zubeck@csindy.com, krdonews@krdo.com, mike.rausch@krdo.com, news@kktv.com, lmartin@kktv.com, news@koaa.com, kduffy@koaa.com, news@fox21news.com, jcole@kxrm.com, jpaul@denverpost.com, info@krcc.com, jim.alexee@sierraclub.org, friendsofcheyennecanon@gmail.com Here is an update from Kent Obee, President of Save Cheyenne https://mailchi.mp/8a48b…/strawberry-fields-update-from-obee Ruth Obee's email to City Council to support the Appeal: Dear Council Members, The North Cheyenne Cañon Park master plan under current consideration doesn’t acknowledge the fact that this historic regional park belongs to us, the tax-paying citizens of Colorado Springs, not to either the tourists or the private entities that profit from them. It’s not the job of the Parks Department to market one of the City’s most cherished and popular parks in order to increase visitors beyond the Park’s limited carrying capacity – already strained. Where I come from “branding” is for cattle, not for a Park that is so unique, beautiful, naturally wild and historic that it is listed on the National Register of Historic places. Yet on page 88 of the NCCP master plan, it suggests the need to “Build the North Cheyenne Cañon Park brand.” Please, keep North Cheyenne Cañon Park Western; keep it wild; keep it authentic. Unlike in the Red Rock Canyon master plan, nowhere does this current NCC Park plan state as one of its themes the desirability of maintaining the “back-country experience.” The current plan’s tenor and stated goals are, indeed, inimical to that theme. The narrow-walled and ancient Cañon is not well-suited to shuttle buses, a recommendation that continued to be made repeatedly under different guises in the master plan. Buses will serve to increase the volume of tourists and will further disrupt the natural peace of the stream-side picnic area As of this writing, more than 5,500 individuals have signed a petition objecting to the introduction of noisy, fume-producing shuttle buses. Majority popular opinion is strongly against this proposal. As for re-engineering the mouth of the cañon to run a paved road up part of the mesa and behind the Starsmore Nature Center, that proposal strains credulity and logic and would be hugely expensive. It would involve moving the already desecrated and bone-dry South Creek – which is illegal without official permission. To what end? Such an overreaching plan suggests that the bureaucrats have begun to assume power and authority that more properly belongs to elected officials. Please support the Cañon Conservationists’ Appeal, with its proposed changes to the NCCPark 2018 master and management plan. Thank you for your attention to this letter and your service on City Council, With best wishes, Ruth Obee