{"id":2451214,"date":"2019-11-17T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/glenwood-springs-community-comes-together\/"},"modified":"2019-11-17T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T03:48:00","slug":"glenwood-springs-community-comes-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/glenwood-springs-community-comes-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenwood Springs community comes together"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Natalie Rae Fuller does not live in Glenwood Springs but spent her Saturday learning about Rocky Mountain Resources\u2019 Transfer Trail Limestone Quarry expansion proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to find out more,\u201d Fuller said.<\/p>\n

Saturday at the community center the city of Glenwood Springs hosted The Whole Shebang.<\/p>\n

At the public event, local officials illustrated Rocky Mountain Resources\u2019 proposal for the quarry on Bureau of Land Management land just north of Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles and Denver-based company\u2019s plans to blast and crush 5 million tons of rock annually for over two decades concerned Fuller, who has lived in Basalt and Carbondale for the past five years.<\/p>\n

Enough to make the 27-year-old, who hopes to spend her foreseeable future in the Roaring Fork Valley, write a letter to the Bureau of Land Management.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that the concern of citizens not only in this town but in the surrounding towns will get the federal government\u2019s attention,\u201d Fuller said.<\/p>\n

Aspen, Snowmass Village, Basalt, Carbondale, New Castle, Silt, Rifle and Pitkin County all have joined Glenwood Springs in passing formal resolutions opposing the expansion of the Transfer Trail limestone quarry.<\/p>\n

At Saturday\u2019s community event, the city showcased its recently unveiled black and yellow \u201cDon\u2019t Strip Glenwood Of Its Future,\u201d logo and slogan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I was Chad Brownstein \u2026 I would not be having a good couple of days,\u201d Jonathan Godes, Glenwood Springs mayor, said with respect to recent media coverage of RMR\u2019s expansion plans and political ties.<\/p>\n

Current Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt once worked for law and lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, which RMR hired to lobby on behalf of \u201cissues related to a potential mine expansion project in Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis really is a David and Goliath fight,\u201d Godes said. \u201cEvery donation, every letter to the editor, every petition that you sign, every postcard that you send, every time you call your representative, it\u2019s just one more rock in that sling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local Glenwood Seventh Street restaurant Smoke Modern Barbeque fed the 200-plus in attendance at The Whole Shebang.<\/p>\n

Upon entering the standing-room-only event, Glenwood Springs Citizens\u2019 Alliance volunteer Jim Minch politely offered patrons the nonprofit organization\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Mine Glenwood\u201d stickers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were very few that turned them away,\u201d Minch said. \u201cSome people just don\u2019t wear stickers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city has set aside $1.25 million to fight RMR\u2019s proposal to haul 450 truckloads of rock daily to fill up rail cars at a load-out facility minutes away from many of Glenwood Springs\u2019 economic drivers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I lived in Denver I didn\u2019t even know what the Western Slope was,\u201d Sue Kuhn said.<\/p>\n

Wanting to live in a smaller community, Kuhn made the move to Glenwood Springs in 1978 and has called it home ever since.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are communities here and people here and livelihoods here,\u201d Kuhn said. \u201cIt would just take the whole town away.\u201d<\/p>\n

mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Natalie Rae Fuller does not live in Glenwood Springs but spent her Saturday learning about Rocky Mountain Resources\u2019 Transfer Trail Limestone Quarry expansion proposal. \u201cI wanted to find out more,\u201d Fuller said. Saturday at the community center the city of Glenwood Springs hosted The Whole Shebang. At the public event, local officials illustrated Rocky Mountain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 06:00:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}