Northern Front Range • Entered by Anne Dal Vera on July 24, 2023
Campsite Monitoring 2 Fish Creek trail
July 14, 2023
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 0 |
| Post Admin hours | 1 |
| Activity Hours | 11 |
| Participants | 1 |
| Total Hours | 12 |
Key Issue: Wilderness & Monument Designation/Protection
Activity Type: Stewardship (monitoring, sampling, planting, etc.)
Key Partners: Poudre Wilderness Volunteers PWV
Landscape/area: Comanche Peak Wilderness (68033 acres)
Measurable Outcomes
Outcome 1: Trail/land monitored (10 sites/plots)
Outcome 2: Hiked (9 miles)
Short Description of Activity
Fish Creek Trail from Pingree Park road to 4 miles in -1 Broad and 3 PWV women hiked in to the meadow where Broads finished monitoring campsites on 6/23/23. We found 2 new campsites and 3 old ones and did not find 5 sites that were old.
Reflection/Evaluation
Karen Artell trained Carol and Kelly from PWV. We completed the Fish Creek trail southeast of the bridge that was washed out. The area was burned in the Cameron Peak fire in 2020, and has an abundance of grasses and wildflowers. Also many large areas of canada thistle and musk thistle. Karen will submit the campsite location data and Anne will submit the campsite evaluation data. Carol will enter the PWV patrol data, including the 2 trees we moved off the trail. We saw no other humans on the trail. The trail beyond the meadow at 3 mile in was overgrown with weeds, grass and other plants. Becoming wild!
Photos/Uploads
Photo Captions
1 Karen and Anne finish monitoring a campsite in the Comanche Peak Wilderness and look toward another site.