“LET’S MAKE HUGHES A FORT COLLINS NATURAL AREA”
There is ONLY ONE TRULY EQUITABLE and PROTECTIVE future for Hughes:
100% of Hughes must be designated an official City Natural Area.
Hughes is SACRED. Let’s choose COMMUNITY and LAND CONSERVATION.
No more LAND CONSUMPTION, DEVELOPMENT and EXPLOITATION of Hughes by private organizations with deep-pocketed funders.
Against all odds, the Fort Collins community and voters accomplished TWO of THREE steps to protect Hughes in perpetuity: First, we zoned Hughes as ‘Public Open Lands’ (2021 election), AND second, we acquired Hughes so it is now truly publicly-owned land. The Third and last step in the community-driven Hughes conservation effort is to PROTECT 100% of Hughes as PUBLICLY-OWNED land in perpetuity for future generations and for the local wildlife that inhabit and are returning to Hughes open space.
To that end, the ONLY truly EQUITABLE and PROTECTIVE future for Hughes is for the City to designate Hughes an official 100% City Natural Area, contiguous with the protected Natural Areas (Maxwell and Pineridge), for the benefit of ALL members of our community, of all socioeconomic backgrounds and physical abilities, and for the protection and preservation of our local wildlife.
PATHS Community Organizers.
Hughes is sacred. Protect Hughes as a 100% Natural Area.
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Image: Valmont BMX/MTB Bike Skills Park, Boulder, CO
Is a HIGH-IMPACT BMX/MTB bike skills park and multi-trail race course an appropriate and equitable use for Hughes open space? Absolutely Not. But there is an alternative option.
Protect Hughes in Perpetuity.
Make Hughes a City Natural Area.
Help us fight to make Hughes PROTECTED open space and a designated City Natural Area, a use that benefits ALL members of our community EQUALLY and EQUITABLY, and protects our local wildlife. Every dollar counts.
Thank you!
There Are Serious Problems with the City of Fort Collins’ Outreach on “The Future of Hughes” Open Space
And why is a small but vocal mountain bike lobby trying to co-opt the hard work of Fort Collins citizens who petitioned, campaigned and voted for Hughes to be protected open space?
Read the City’s own “Foothills Management Plan - Update 2019” regarding the importance of reducing habitat fragmentation to create interconnectivity between patches of habitat for the conservation of our local animal and plant wildlife. A City-designated ‘Hughes Natural Area’ aligns with the Natural Areas Foothills Management Plan perfectly.
PATHS is a 100% citizen-funded, grassroots nonprofit. We do not have millions of dollars in foundation funding like others do. Every dollar counts for us. Thank you!
NEW JULY 2024
Dear Community Members,
Please donate to the new PATHS LEGAL and OUTREACH & EDUCATION fund so we can fight the monied, special-interest lobbying groups suddenly trying to grab Hughes for self-serving HIGH-impact land uses, including a recreation tourism mecca that only a small subset of residents would be able to access and enjoy, and for a habitat-destroying zoo-like “campus” replete with permanent buildings and offices, restrictive fencing, and a an asphalt parking lot.
Help us fight to keep Hughes PUBLICLY-OWNED and PUBLICLY-ACCESSED. Help us ensure Hughes is permanently PROTECTED open space that benefits ALL members of our community EQUALLY and EQUITABLY in perpetuity.
After years of PATHS' outreaching and listening to thousands of Fort Collins residents about their vision for the future of Hughes, the community's clear common vision for Hughes was a quiet place of solitude for the entire community (of all abilities and walks of life) to connect with nature, and to serve as an extension of a protected wildlife corridor, and a place to preserve our dark night skies in a rapidly growing town with increasing noise and light pollution.
Our amazing attorneys are key to our success, and so are our continued outreach and education efforts to keep our community informed about the City’s plans for the future of Hughes Public Open Lands. These efforts are costly. Please contribute. Thank you.
Because once it’s gone, it’s gone forever.
Somos una organización sin fines de lucro con el objetivo de conservar como espacio abierto o máximo espacio, la propiedad anteriormente conocida como Hughes Stadium. Una ubicación que es especial y querida por la comunidad de Fort Collins, donde abundan las vistas panorámicas y la vida silvestre y se encuentra en la base de las estribaciones, junto al área natural de la ciudad de Fort Collins Maxwell y el sendero de las estribaciones.
