by Brent Gardner-Smith, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Coloradoan.com Comment Section by Neil Grigg • August 12, 2008
A promising outcome might be a proposed permit that the proponents could validate by a collaborative forum that ended with win-win agreements, including environmental water. As the major upstream city, Fort Collins must take a leading role in such a forum....
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080812/OPINION04/808120324/1014/OPINION
Loveland Reporter-Herald Researchers from the National Park Service and the University of Colorado will fan out over Rocky Mountain National Park today to test water quality....
By Ed Dentry, Rocky Mountain News (Contact) Originally published 12:05 a.m., July 22, 2008
"The victims are taxpayers who own public lands - especially hunters and anglers, who've watched as a national legacy is slaughtered like bison...."
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/22/feverish-natural-gas-drilling-has-wreaked-havoc/
| Herald Outdoors Editor
| Herald Outdoors Editor August 8, 2008
A good measure of progress on the new proposal could be found in July at a gathering of wilderness proponents near Purgatory that was hosted by the Durango office of Trout Unlimited. Present at the weekend retreat were representatives of the San Juan National Forest, the Colorado Division of Wildlife, Trails 2000 and several journalists from around the state.
Also present were staff members from the local office of U.S. Rep. John Salazar and La Plata County Commissioner Wally White.
Everyone had something positive to say about the compromise proposal, and about the necessity of acting in a timely fashion to ensure the protection of the Hermosa drainage.
"This one's a winner," Chris Hunt of TU's Public Lands Initiative office said of the compromise proposal. "Let's come together on this one to protect the area for generations of hunters and anglers."
Kelsey Wilkinson, For the CameraAugust 6, 2008
One event that the Boulder Inner City Outings program has created, with help from a grant, shows children how to do water sampling along Goose Creek. Trout Unlimited sponsors fly-fishing afterward.
The itinerary is now copied nationally after it became one of the most popular outings in the Boulder program.
The group also offers a one-hour, monthly class after school that teaches skills such as using maps, navigating with a compass, weather forecasting and basic leadership skills.
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/aug/06/inner-city-outings-now-has-boulder-county-focus/
"Do you buy the industry scare tactics over soaring prices at the pump or do you favor some protection for the resource to perpetuate hunting and fishing activities that provide a more enduring boost for the economy?..." http://blogs.denverpost.com/sports/2008/07/22/pump-me-up/#more-2091
Coyote Gulch - created by John Orr, who works for Denver's Department of Public works - is a great source of water news. Featured stories from August 5th included one on a $50k donation to the Rio Grande Headwaters Trust and Ducks Unlimited, a 100K grant to the South Metro Water Supply Authority for a regional aquifer, storage and recovery study, and a water right decree for the Great Sand Dunes National Park. http://radio.weblogs.com/0101170/2008/08/05.html#a12175
