Time Machine: 30 years ago, Colorado Republicans rally against effort to sell public lands to ski areas

Time Machine: 30 years ago, Colorado Republicans rally against effort to sell public lands to ski areas

30 years ago Nov. 3, 1995 A measure to sell Forest Service land to ski areas was headed for a Congressional conference committee, the Vail Trail reported. “A brain-child of the Alaskan contingent in Washington, D.C., the ski-area proposal has received strong opposition from Colorado,” the Trail reported. Colorado Republicans Rep. Scott McInnis and Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell said they convinced Rep. Don Young of Alaska and Sen. Frank Murkowski …