Save Our Wild Salmon is a nationwide coalition of conservation organizations [including TU], commercial and sportsfishing associations, businesses, river groups, and taxpayer advocates working collectively to restore self-sustaining, healthy, and abundant wild salmon to rivers, streams and oceans of the Pacific Salmon states. "Last year, just four Snake River sockeye salmon survived their journey from the Pacific Ocean to their ancestral spawning grounds in Redfish Lake in Idaho’s Rocky Mountains — an ancient upstream migration of more than 900 miles inland and 6,500 feet above sea level. Just four fish...."
Web Cam will allow officials, citizens to monitor water levels
Colorado Daily Staff ReportOriginally published 04:25 p.m., May 29, 2008
"Now everyone can have a view of Boulder Creek from the comfort of their living room..."
http://www.coloradodaily.com/news/2008/may/29/word-jump-line-here-city-installs-creek-cam-web/
Squeezing water out of oil
CNet Green Tech Blog
May 29, 2008 4:00 AM PDT - Posted by Stefanie Olsen
Excavating oil and gas has a little-known byproduct that costs the energy industry billions of dollars annually in removal--smelly sludge water.
A New Mexico start-up is trying to deal with the problem. Privately held Altela has developed a hydrothermal system that aims to turn the ancient groundwater extracted in oil or gas production into clean drinking water....
USDA report says climate change affecting crops, livestock
| Associated Press Writer - 12:06 AM CDT, May 28, 2008 "Climate change is increasing the risk of U.S. crop failures, depleting the nation's water resources and contributing to outbreaks of invasive species and insects, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a report released Tuesday...."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-climatechange-cropfa,0,3711650.story
Ritter names members to state wildlife, water quality panels
Governor Ritter appoints TU member Bob Streeter to Colorado Wildlife Commission http://www.examiner.com/a-1417438~Ritter_names_members_to_state_wildlife__water_quality_panels.html
Volunteers aid greenback cutthroat’s recovery
By Trigg White Special to the Trail-Gazette
Alpine Anglers, the Estes Park chapter of Trout Unlimited, supports the greenback recovery program by recruiting and coordinating the volunteers that Kennedy needs. Austin Condon is the group’s volunteer coordinator. “We’ve got a core team of about 35 volunteers who delivered more than 1,100 hours of service to the greenback program last year,” reports Condon. Volunteers man dip nets and fishing rods to assist with population surveys and collecting tissue samples. “It’s tough work,” says Condon smiling, “fishing for science in some of the most beautiful alpine lakes in the park.”
http://www.eptrail.com/pages/01wednesday_z/wed08_sports.html
Roadless Roadshow
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Roadless Areas of the Pike-San Isabel A Wild Connections Event in 7 Communities |
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Attend one of Wild Connections' Community Meetings. Wild Connections is sponsoring a "Roadless Roadshow" in 7 communities in early June. This free public presentation will discuss the ecological values of Roadless areas, give details and facts pertaining to the current management of these areas such as fire management flexibility, and provide trails and hiking information so you can go explore Roadless areas in your own backyard. Please attend one of these shows!
Why is this timely and important? The US Forest Service is working right now on developing a Colorado-specific rule. The draft Colorado Roadless Rule is slated to be published in June. While we don't know the details of what this new Colorado rule will look like, we are certain that it will weaken current protections currently afforded to these undeveloped lands. Wild Connections, and the broader conservation community, have made it a priority to analyze the impacts of the proposed rule, and we will need your voice to help ensure that the human and ecological services that Colorado's Roadless lands provide are not compromised.
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Pike-San Isabel Restarts the Forest Plan Revision Ensuring Sensible Land Management Practices for the next 15 years |
Dils gets top award from river forum
http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2008/05/02/news/region/doc481ab4122821a071104051.txt
By CHRIS WOODKA THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
"Newly minted Colorado Water Conservation Board member Reed Dils [and former Collegiate Peaks President]was honored by Arkansas Valley water users Wednesday for his years of work on water and conservation issues...."
BuRec Notice Re: Gunnison River
Reclamation has received the May 15th runoff forecast from the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center which predicts the April through July runoff to Blue Mesa to be 40,000 ac-ft greater than previously estimated. This brings the most probable April through July runoff into Blue Mesa to 1.1 million ac-ft which is 153% of average. In addition, we have been gathering input from the public and resource agencies, including the State of Colorado, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and others, to determine the spring release operation for the Aspinall Unit. These discussions have resulted in a general operation plan comprised of the following goals:
Attempt to maximize flows of the Gunnison River at Whitewater with a goal of reaching 14,000 cfs by adding flow to the descending limb of the North Fork peak.
Provide a peak of at least 6,000 cfs in the Black Canyon below the Gunnison Tunnel.
Attempt to minimize flooding at Delta
Based on information received from the Colorado River Basin Forecast Center on May 15th, the North Fork is most likely to peak around May 21st. Reclamation's attempt to match the descending limb of this peak will be dependent on the peak's magnitude and duration, but ramping up could begin toward the middle or end of the week of May 18th, with high releases from Crystal continuing through the Memorial Day Weekend and a portion of the following week. These dates and flowrates are likely to change as runoff conditions fluctuate.
Please refer questions to Dan Crabtree at 970-248-0652
Sportsmen meet in Wyo. to talk preservation of hunting land
Trout Unlimited spokesman Chris Hunt said Thursday that hunters and anglers don't oppose energy development but they also don't want to see their hunting and fishing grounds destroyed.
"If you're a sportsman in Wyoming or in Colorado or in Utah or Montana or New Mexico, you're watching as the places you hunt and fish are disappearing," Hunt said. "And it's a pretty simply equation, lost habitat equals lost opportunity."
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/may/23/sportsmen-meet-in-wyo-to-talk-land-preservation/
