Copper Mountain will likely request the Jacques Basin (light blue) and Tucker Gulch (pink) to be zoned for downhill, lift served skiing.  They have in the past considered developing a new base village along CO Hwy. 91; the possibility that the Tucker Creek drainage zoning request is motivated by real estate development potential cannot be ruled out.
 

In 1999, Breckenridge received Forest Service approval for a high speed quad on Peak 7.  Colorado Wild agued that the lift was proposed to increase the value of 300 acres of private lands in Cucumber Gulch owned by Vail Resorts.  Subsequently, the Army Corp of Engineers and the EPA held up Breckenridge's wetlands destruction permit until Vail Resorts revealed their development plans.  The Peak 7 expansion is now on hold, but is still permitted with Alternative D, the Forest Service's preferred alternative with the Forest plan revision.