Aspen Daily News Online / by David Petersen / Saturday, December 20, 2008 David Petersen of durango is field director for Trout Unlimited's Public Lands Initiative.
Thank you, Gov. Ritter, for striking a deal with the feds that assures any forthcoming Colorado roadless rule will not be a rush-job....
[from Scientific American website] A rush to develop domestic oil, gas and uranium deposits along the Colorado River and its tributaries threatens its future
By Abrahm Lustgarten and ProPublica
The river is already so beleaguered by drought and climate change that one environmental study called it the nation's "most endangered" waterway. Researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography warn the river's reservoirs could dry up in 13 years.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-the-wests-energy-boom-could-threaten-drinking-water
(from the International Sportsmen'sExhibition Blog) An auction to benefit Colorado’s Conservation Effort led by Colorado Trout Unlimited, will be open to all attendees of the ISE in Denver, CO - Jan. 22-25.
Colorado Trout Unlimited is the Colorado council of the national organization Trout Unlimited, which has more than 156,000 members nationwide. For more than 35 years, CTU has made significant contributions to Colorado’s environment, including battling the effects of disease on wild trout, defeating harmful large dam and diversion projects, passing important stream flow legislation, spearheading youth conservation education, protecting water quality, restoring native trout, improving drought-stricken rivers, establishing healthy fishing regulations and promoting water conservation.
Photographers include, Jason Jagger, R. Valentine Atkinson, Jeff Stine, Dan Armstrong, Mark Lance, Patrick Clayton, Brian Grossenbacher, John Crane, Tosh Brown, and Brian O’keefe.
DENVER (AP) — Ken Salazar worked his way from a remote family ranch to become the state's first Hispanic U.S. senator — and along the way he's amassed an intimate knowledge of Western political issues.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jod0CIPSX7K1gH0Nc0nVsw9jgHqQD953FRFO0
Dec 17, 2008 4:00 PM (1 day ago) By JUDITH KOHLER, AP "On the whole, we're really optimistic that his appointment will translate into commonsense changes in the ways federal land is maintained in relation to fish and wildlife habitat," said Chris Hunt of Trout Unlimited's public lands initiative.
http://www.examiner.com/a-1750211~Conservation_groups_give_Salazar_mixed_welcome.html
by John Orr, Colorado Water ExaminerThe preferred alternative still runs from Pueblo Dam through Pueblo County up the east side of Colorado Springs / Fountain area.
This is an exerpt of Dave Buchanan's December 13 column in the Grand Junction Sentinel. Chris Hunt is Communications Director for TU's Public Lands Initiative. His book is available at Amazon.com or at www.flyfishscribe.com.
I just finished reading Chris Hunt’s entertaining new book “Shin Deep: a Fly Fisher’s Love for Living Water” (self-published, $16.99, 138 pp, softcover).The book is a compilation of some of Hunt’s essays on fly fishing, many of them written while he was still locked into a journalist’s job, or perhaps I should say “jobs.”Throughout the 19 well-crafted stories runs the theme of conservation, not simply for trout but for wild places, wild water and the wild creatures who inhabit both realms.
LandScope America — a collaborative project of NatureServe and the National Geographic Society — is a new online resource for the land-protection community and the public. Developed with generous support from the West Hill Foundation for Nature, LandScope America is designed to increase the pace and effectiveness of conservation action and investment throughout the United States.
County staff wants concrete, enforceable mitigation rather than simple commitments. By CHRIS WOODKA THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
The total length of the pipeline would be about 50 miles, with two more pump stations in El Paso County and a treatment plant. In a few years, a terminal storage reservoir and an exchange reservoir are planned on Williams Creek.
http://www.chieftain.com/articles/2008/12/10/news/local/doc493f7e7c9ee76704242048.txt
County commissioners resist Superfund designation at abandoned mineBy Bob Berwyn summit daily news Summit County, CO Colorado
Even though the EPA is promising a “free” cleanup of the abandoned Pennsylvania Mine, local officials remain leery of a Superfund listing, citing concerns about potential human and social costs.
