APPCOR10762

• Permit No: C1989074
• IBM Index Class Name: Application Correspondence
• Doc Date: 9/28/1990
• Doc Name: letter about SUP
• From: TREND IN COLO
• To: MLRD
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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TO: SAX 'l~g•.946:45So Visiting Lecturer
~ TREni:D, -- 'CRv~I'9Pe9 ~ Department of Recreation, Park anti
Tourism Sciences,
l;-rso„ ~Oq : OaS: o4a6 Texas A&ht University
~ RPTS - ~.A.M.1ln~~_ ~ College Station, Texts 77843-22ri1
WITH COMPLIMENTS OF
KEITH HOLLINSHEAD
TO: THE PLANNING AND LAND OFFICE, LAS ANIMAS COUNTY
CIO, MR.FRANK GRANDF.RO T.R,$.N.D. OFFICE, TRD~IDAD
iT 13 WITH CONSIDERABLE CONCERN THAT I W RITE TO EXPRESS MY DISAPPOINTMENT THAT THAT THE
PLANNING AND LAND USE OFFICE OF LAS ANL~IAS COUNTY MAY DE AHOUT TO APPROVE [OR
OTHERWISE HE INSTRUMENTAL>rl THE DEVELOPMENT OF] A STRIP MINE AT ENGELVILLE ON THE SITE
OF THE OLD ENCEL COALMINE SOME THREE MILES SOUTH OF TRINIDAD.
HAV[lVG JUST COMPLETED A CONSULTANCY PROJECT ON THE AEVELOPMENT OF THE SANTA
FE TRAIL AS AN INTERNATIONAL TOURISM AT~RACTfON AND AS A LOCAL ECONOM1IIC RF.SOCRCE FOR
THE TRDYIDAD REGION, I AM MOST KEEN TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THE I1IPERATIVfi NF.F.D TO
SAFEGUARD THE HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND GEOPHYSICAL AbIENITIES OF THE HINTERLAND
SURROUNDING FISHER'S PEAK. TRINIDAD AND THE PEAK ARE THE PIVOTAL FOP.~T9 UN THE
MOUNTAIN BRANCH OF THE SANTA FR TRAIL ... AND i AM DLSTURBED THAT THE RIMROCK COAL
COMPANY'S PROPOSAL WOULD DESPOIL FOREVER A CRITICAL HISTORICAL ROUTEWAY WHICH IS OF
MMENSENATlONALANDIN7'ERNATIONALSTATURE. THE SANTA FETRA]LISANATIONALHISTOR[CAL
TRAIL ASDE9IGNATEDIN1987HYCONCRESSUNUERTHENATIONALTRAILSSYSTEMACf. CURRENTLY,
THE NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE, THE NATIONAL FOREST SERVICE, THE COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF
LOCAL AFFAIRS, THE COLORADO TOURISM DOARD ••• AND, IN TOTAL, SOME TWENTY FEDERAL, STATE
ANA LOCALAGENCIES -- ARE CONSD)EAING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL LANDD[ARK HCR[TAGfi
CENTER NEAR TURNOFF "2" ON THE I.25, A FEW hIILES SOTH OF ENGF.LVILLE TO ACCESS TIIE
IMPORTANT MIX OF BATON [PASS] CORRIDOR ASSETS DETW[XT TRlM1TDAD AND BATON. TFIAT CENTER
IS DEINC PLANNED AS A MAJOR SOUTH•WES'fERN DRAWCARD TO RECEl1'E DOMESTIC AND
INTERNATIONAL VISITORS DRAWN TO'1'RINIDAD, FISHER'S PEAK AND "TiIE BATON".
THE AOUTEWAY FROM THE PURGATOIRE RIVER IN TRINIDAD TO THE TOP OF THE BATON PASS
(DF.NEATH THE SHADOW OF THE STRATEGIC FISHER'S PEAK] IS OF INCALCULADLE HISTORIC,
CULTURAL AND CEO•PHYSICAL VALUE. IT WOULD DE A LASTING CONDEMNATION OF OUR CURRENT
SOCIETAL VALUES AND THE STEWARDSHIP PRIORITIES OF OUR ACE IF SUCH AN IMPORTANT
COLLECTIVE SET OF AM1[ENITY AND HERITAGE ASSETS, VISTAS AND LOCALES WERE, TO DE DEGRADED
AND DEMINISHED RY THE PRESENCfi OF THE AFORESAID STRIP MINE.
I l,'RGE THE PLANNING AND LAND L'SE OFFICE TO SAFEGUARD THE UNIQUE PIiDIGREE OF THE
REGION HY MAPPING, AECOGNISI\G AND PROTECfINC THE VITAL HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND SCENIC
PANORAMAS THAT ARfi CURRENTLY AFFORDED TO AND FROM FISHER'S PEAK. THERE IS NO OTHER
FISHER'S PEAK. THERE IS ONLY ONE BATON PASS IN THE WORLD. THE FRONTIER STCNIFICANCE OF
THfi SANTA FE TRAIL IS UNMATCHED AROUND THE CLODF.. SUCH CNPORTANT NATION,\L AND
INTERNATIONAL ASSETS ARE IRREPLACEABLE. LIiT NOT M1II:RF. COMMERCIAL GAIN MUTILATE THE
NATURAL AND HISTORIC INHERITANCE UPU.~' WHICH TRINIDAD WAS FOUNDED AND CPON 1VHICH THE
"CONQUEST" OF THE SOUTHWEST WAS STAGED.
KclthHolllttshcud K 1~~.^~~ 24 S@pY, ~qqp
[Spcelnast In Cultural Stewardship]
Vlalling Lttturcr In Tourism Studies t Department of Recreation, Purk and Tourism Sciences : Tcxm A & M
Unlvcrslry
[[[ CONSULTANT : TOURISM sERV1CE5
THE OFFICE OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT' t THE DEPT. OF LOCAL AFFAIRS
THE STATE OF COLORADO 1988 At 1989 df 1990 ]]]
Author of 1990 D.O.L.A, report to the South•cast Colorado Regional Tourism Doord "SANTn FE" SALUTE.
August 1990.
Tel. [phone] ~r 3411; Fax. [phone]. SENT 24th Sept. '90