Photos from the Statewide Listening Tour- Day 3

10am- noon: Work with the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps and its REcovery Act-funded Pine Beetle Mitigation Group to clear a bark beetle- infested area on Rabbit Ears Pass in the Routt National Forest.

Senate Majority Leader John Morse and Senate President Brandon Shaffer speak with Executive Director Gretchen Van De Carr and a few RMYC members.

(from left to right) Development Director Sheila Wright, Senate Majority Leader John Morse, Senate President Brandon Shaffer and Gretchen Van De Carr. 

Senator John Morse gets to work.

Rocky Mountain Youth Corps

Senator John Morse and Senator Brandon Shaffer

 Rocky Mountain Youth Corps members

(from left to right) Development Director Sheila Wright, Senate Majority Leader John Morse, Senate President Brandon Shaffer and Gretchen Van De Carr. 

(from left to right) Development Director Sheila Wright, Senate Majority Leader John Morse, Senate President Brandon Shaffer and Gretchen Van De Carr. 

President Brandon Shaffer, Gretchen Van De Carr, and U.S. Forest Service representative, Kent C. Foster

The Senators talk with RMYC behind a pile of bark beetle wood

The group

Senator Morse speaks with Kent C. Foster, Recreation Program Manager
Hahns Peak-Bears Ears Ranger District in Medicine Bow-Routt National Forst

 Gretchen Van De Carr talks with President Brandon Shaffer

Sheila Wright, Senator Morse and President Shaffer

Kent C. Foster shows the Senators beetle-kill areas

President Shaffer and Senator Morse stand by a bark beetle tree which was cut down when there was still snow on the ground.

2:30pm: Senate President Brandon Shaffer and Senate Majority Leader John Morse speak with Sharon Raggio, CEO of Colorado West Regional Mental Health, and other mental and behavioral health care prodivers on the Western slope.