For over 50 years, the Candy Rock Quarry in the Stanislaus National Forest has been open for recreational shooting. The quarry is located in Calaveras County, near the towns of Hathaway Pines and Avery. The quarry is one of the locations in the Forest’s Calaveras Ranger District that is actively used by recreationists for target shooting. In recent years, residential development has occurred not far from the Forest boundary and has brought with it homeowner complaints of sound and safety concerns, sufficient that the Forest Service is being pressed to close the quarry to shooting. This is in spite of the fact that shooting has occurred at the quarry with no documented incidents of vandalism, fires, property damage or injury (with the exemption of one self-inflicted gunshot wound in a half century).
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California: Comments Needed to Keep Forest Area Open to Shooters
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