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Some recreation advocates want to see the dust wiped off a document proposing new trails in a popular retreat in Colorado Springs mountains.

Chef Jeanie Roland of Ellies in Westerly talks about home cooking.

Armed with a stunner and fish nets, aquatics biologists Cory Noble and Josh Nehring (left to right) with Colorado Parks and Wildlife wade up Bear Creek to capture Greenback Cutthroat Trout on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. In the 1930’s, the Greenback Cutthroat Trout was thought to be extinct. But the rare fish was not extinct in the wild, partly because an innkeeper in the 1870’s had stocked a pond near Bear Creek with Greenback Cutthroat Trout. The biologists were capturing males and females for...

Special from The Gazette If approved, a new master plan would double trail mileage in Jones Park, the popular, backcountry getaway in Colorado Springs’ southwest mountains. Additions were the hope of hikers, mountain bikers, motorcyclists and equestrians who responded last year to a survey by El Paso County, which in 2015 assumed responsibility of the nearly 1,200 acres. That was amid a controversial chapter in the park’s deep history, dating back to Pikes Peak-bound wagon travelers. ...

If approved, a new master plan would double trail mileage in Jones Park, the popular, backcountry getaway in Colorado Springs southwest mountains. Additions were the hope of hikers, mountain bikers, motorcyclists and equestrians who responded last year to a survey by El Paso County, which in 2015 assumed responsibility of the nearly 1,200 acres. That was amid a controversial chapter in the parks deep history, dating back to Pikes Peak-bound wagon travelers. In 2012, revelations of an endangered...