Browns Canyon Meeting Draws Big Crowd Approximately 500 people were in attendance for a standing-room-only meeting held in Salida Dec. 6 to discuss and listen to opinions from citizens, business owners and land-use representatives for the possible designation of the Browns Canyon Wilderness Study Area as a national monument. As Congress has continually dragged its feet on the bill, supporters of the designation are asking President Obama to use the Antiquities Act of 1906, an act has been used over a hundred times since its passage, to offer additional protections to the 22,000 acres of remote land north of Salida…
