McCombs Hits Another Roadblock
Village at Wolf Creek Delayed Yet Again
By Carson Bennett, 12-02-08
| Alberta Peak and Knife Ridge at Wolf Creek | |
Developers of the proposed Village at Wolf Creek have run into another snafu.
You may remember from my post on February 11 that Red McCombs and the Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) agreed to write a new Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a private road that would cut through public lands. If built, the road would allow access to 287 acres of private land on which McCombs wants to build a resort city at the foot of the Wolf Creek ski area. Now, nine months later, the U.S. Forest Service has yet to receive an amended EIS. On November 20 the Forest Service officially suspended the EIS application process, effectively rendering McCombs’ Village at Wolf Creek a pipe dream.
Of course, the developers could always start over. McCombs does own a decent chunk of land at the base of the small ski area (although the land-swap deal in which he acquired it was a bit shady, as the Durango Telegraph reported in 2004). He and his partners could begin the process again by submitting a new application to the Forest Service, but with public opinion overwhelmingly against developing the land into a resort town, and with access now blocked by the suspended EIS process, it may require more time and money than McCombs is willing to invest.
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Comments
This is right out of a movie...a horror flick if he ever gets his way.
Speak out against this if you love Wolf's Powder and all around beauty...Write to politicians and Newspapers.
Drive up for the goods like we all do...Or camp out in the woods if you prepared...which your not.
Spend your hard or not so hard earned money in Pagosa Springs and South Fork...Keep it local!
New Mexicans are just as concerned about this project as we flock to Wolf Creek...We are the LOBOS who ride too!
Only thing it will do is increase the overall price...In which case...Bye-bye NM crowds.
Red McCombs-You are not wanted in Wolf Creek. Your ideas are not welcome in this sacred land. You have proven over and over again that all you want is money...Your empire is vast but it shall not reach the peak that the wolf spirits calls home.
Please concern yourself with converting your existing infrastructure into a more energy efficient one. Learn to work with the land and it will provide you with all you need. Leave this place alone and please...come ski or snowboard it and see how much we really dont want this.