Make 100% of Hughes a City Natural Area!
Because once it’s gone, it’s gone forever.
Sierra Club Poudre Canyon Group, March 2023:
“Fort Collins’ population is anticipated to grow by at least another 70,000+ people in the next 50 years. As our population grows and places greater usage demands on our City’s natural areas, one of the best ways to protect the tax-payer investments in our Natural Areas is to keep them undisturbed and to seize once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to extend our existing Natural Areas.”
TAKE ACTION: HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP NOW!
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Circulate A Petition Or Volunteer However You Can!
We Can’t Do This Without YOU!
Please complete our Volunteer sign-up form to volunteer with our Grassroots Movement. We need signature collectors urgently, but we would love for you to join us in whatever capacity you you can. We simply can’t do this without you. Join us to protect and preserve Hughes as a 100% City Natural Area! Thank you! -
Pledge to Sign the Hughes Natural Area Hard Petition!
Please commit to signing our Hughes Natural Area petition by completing the form below!
And, please reach out to your own network of friends, family, and neighbors who support our local public open lands, and ask them to help us in our petitioning efforts by pledging to sign and/or collecting signatures! Thank you! -
Make a Donation to PATHS!
PATHS is a grassroots nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization. We are NOT funded by national chapters or multimillion dollar foundations. We are 100% funded by members like yourself.
Please donate to help us conserve Hughes for our community, future generations, and our wildlife that inhabit the site. -
Listen to the Podcast
In this Hughes episode, a PATHS organizer discusses some of the questions & concerns around the experimental Civic Assembly process with podcast host, Trish Babbitt.
Also discussed are the high-intensity uses that two monied special interest groups have been pushing for, behind the scenes, to try to get a piece of the delicate Hughes ecosystem for themselves.
OTHER WAYS TO HELP
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Comment on the Bike Park Feasibility Study
The City of Fort Collins has funded and is currently conducting a feasibility study for yet another Bike Park in the City. It’s no coincidence that this study is occurring during the latest Civic Assembly outreach on Hughes, as the bike park lobby has made crystal clear.
Fill out the comment card and tell the City that Hughes Open Space is the last place that a 60-80 acre recreation-tourism destination BMX-like bike park should be built. Make YOUR voice heard. -
Contact City Council or Speak at a Council Meeting
Tell City Council that a recreation-tourism Bike Park and an Eco-tourism "Nature Campus" with animal enclosure exhibits, buildings and offices do NOT Belong at Hughes!
Remind Council that this sort of high-intensity development of Hughes violates the legislative intent of the conservation focused citizen-driven ballot measure! And we think a judge will say so too! -
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