First Summit of the leaders of recreation outside Great Outdoors Colorado begins with the plan to protect, connect and inspire - and great gift DaVita
Discount Great Sand Dunes quarters Gov. John Hickenlooper deployed an ambitious plan Thursday to an extensive network of hiking trails, the great places in Colorado to develop a connection.
, "That's a heady vision of what could be Colorado We could develop a tracking system that is unmatched anywhere in the world," he said, explaining his vision in 20 years - one generation - all residents in Colorado 01 october - minute display feet "bright green space."
Hickenlooper unveiled his vision to the first external Summit Great Outdoors Colorado, a gathering of leisure outdoor player designed to provided a kind of GOCO 2.0 as a group lottery grants go on the conservation of land and linking green spaces and reveal Colorado inspired them to enjoy.
DaVita CEO Kent Thiry Healthcare Partners, began the summit of the top floor of the seat of the Denver company 41,000 employees. The GOCO support the revitalization of the South Platte filled corridor distributes the Western view of Longs Peak building, peering through the clouds on the northern horizon.
"We have the land issues as an integral part of daily life, not to define something aside new," Thiry said, citing revered environmentalist John Muir and Aldo Leopold, in his opening speech.
Thiry has $ 50,000 of his own money and $ 50,000 DaVita promised a new GOCO INSPIRE initiative to want to distribute $ 25 million in grants to communities in Colorado, the children want to push off the couch and in a natural environment . Start
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The first stage of the "Colorado Belle" Hickenlooper plan calls for the development of an overall plan in detail all the tracks in Colorado. This creates interactive GIS map to explore the identification of all open areas of the state and the paths and access to these natural landscapes, ready at this time next year, he said.
The Department of Natural Resources of the State, in cooperation with GOCO and other non-profit organizations and government agencies to be in the next year in order to recognize 16 of the most critical condition in the way empty - like 30 miles of track, which prevents that cyclists Wyoming to New Mexico Join missing without wheels on a road.
To ensure funding and support from foundations such as the Nature Conservancy, and companies like DaVita help the country to develop these routes allow GOCO or easements, the access to the slopes.
The strategy - which is appointed mountaineer Luis Benitez with Hickenlooper as first director of the newly created Office of the Colorado Outdoor entertainment industry - represents a new direction for the state, beyond the mere preservation of the land for future generations. Now is the time for the people of Colorado to be connected to their country and foster a love of nature areas for children, who are attracted more by wooden screens.
Over the past 100 years, Colorado has worked for 40 wilderness areas, four national parks, to create eight national monuments - including the last brown surrounding Canyon on the Arkansas River - and hundreds of parks, trails, rivers and shelters restored forests.
"We are facing the possibility of building on this," Hickenlooper said, noting that the state's population grew by 3 million in early 1990 to more than 5.3 million today and will continue for more than 8 million in the next 25 to grow years.
It's time to connect everything was all Colorado residents said. Especially children.
Getting kids to do from more to address obesity, heart disease, depression and attention deficit disorders, Hickenlooper said. You can start the next generation to protect the remained lands that receive care in its natural state.
"Children of nature and the nature of the needs of children must," he said. "If we do not give our children early exposure to nature outdoors ... it will be much less likely to appreciate ever completely, and if not appreciate, to protect them? Help for Children, in love with nature do not fall Colorado should be only a priority, but in the national and even international top priority must be to fight against the sides of the climate change and the preservation of the wilderness. "
Ken Salazar, the diverse population of Colorado believe the state constitution to change and GOCO 1992 cited the initial success of the organization. He described how the money helped Douglas County GOCO received hundreds of thousands of acres of ranches on its southern border, the possibility that Denver and Colorado Springs are in a corridor of the city in the Front Range of the foundation block.
To protect special places preservation, the development of a network of hiking trails in "best in class" bike, the fight for federal states and inspiring children to enjoy the wilderness must be kept key strategies to Colorado, Salazar said.
"How can we ensure that Colorado is developing in the right direction? Let" Salazar said. "How can we in a manner that protects Colorado and the beauty of our state is known to grow?"
Jason Blevins: 303-954-1374 or jblevins@denverpost.com twitter.com/jasonblevins
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