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Hi All – reading Marie Hoerner’s visit to the Pawnee National Grasslands reminded me of a visit there my wife and I made in 2017. We drove around this area stopping and wandering around looking at birds. Soon there were black pickup trucks and SUV’s shadowing us, or trying to, but as we didn’t know where we were going and made lots of odd turns these vehicles were not always close. Then a helicopter appeared over our heads but another odd turn and this, too, was lost. With all this activity we thought we’d better leave. So we headed out only to come to a military roadblock suddenly! Two Humvees with soldiers and machine guns. Fortunately they’d left a gap between their Humvees and we sped on through with a cheerful wave to the startled soldiers and scuttled out of Morgan County as fast as we could. We found out later that the area we were in was some sort of defunct missile site (I wondered what all those large concrete covers covered with weeds and grass were) and these were missile silos. So, what is it with the Pawnee National Grasslands? I thought, being a National Grassland, it was open to everyone. But people live inside its boundaries, fracking operations are everywhere and its not a pleasant place to visit. But we did see lots of Lark buntings. – Dave Hyde/nr. Storm Mountain, Larimer Cty.
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Thank you all for your remarks about the Pawnee National Grasslands. It seems to be a haphazard sort of place with competing ownerships and interests. Perhaps we’re at a time when the idea of National Parks means access for everyone anywhere no longer applies. Sad.
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