Visitor Center At Rocky Mountain Arsenal Renamed To Honor Pat Schroeder
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (CBS4) - Colorado lawmakers honored former Colorado congresswoman Pat Schroeder at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wednesday morning.
Reps. Diana DeGette, Ed Perlmutter and Jared Polis unveiled the newly renamed Pat Schroeder Visitor Center.
During her time in Congress Schroeder helped start a major environmental cleanup at the arsenal and established the land as a wildlife refuge.
"This is really planning something for the next generation, as so many other people have said, and that's why it's so terribly important," Schroeder said. "It's our duty to turn everything over in a little better shape than we found it, and this one we can say we did it."
The Rocky Mountain Arsenal is now one of the largest urban wildlife refuges in the country.