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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-291
FOWLER AND BOSKOFF PEAKS DESIGNATION ACT
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2768]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2768) to designate certain mountain peaks in the State
of Colorado as Fowler Peak and Boskoff Peak, having consid-
ered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and
recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 2768 is to designate certain mountain peaks
in the State of Colorado as Fowler Peak and Boskoff Peak.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 2768, the Fowler and Boskoff Peaks Designation Act, names
two currently unnamed 13,000-foot proximate peaks in the
Uncompahgre National Forest after Charlie Fowler and Christine
Boskoff.
Charlie Fowler and his partner Christine Chris Boskoff were
long-time residents of San Miguel County, Colorado, and avid
alpinists.
Among one North America's most experienced mountain climb-
ers, Charlie Fowler was an author, guide, filmmaker, photographer
and advocate for the outdoors. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Fowler
worked full time as a mountain guide, leading mountaineering ex-
peditions in the United States and abroad. His photographs and ar-
ticles were published in a variety of books and magazines and he
was the author of multiple mountaineering guidebooks. In 2004,
the American Alpine Society awarded Fowler the Robert and Mir-
iam Underhill Award, an honor given annually to an individual
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