“Our major concern is that they haven’t looked at the cumulative effects,” said David Nickum, executive director of Colorado Trout Unlimited in Boulder. “(The project) could make every year look like a dry year.”
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/dec/26/more-colorado-river-water-tap-county/
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Aspen Daily News Letter to the Editor by Ruthie Brown
Please take a moment to submit a citizen’s comment, asking the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers to ensure that the needs of the Colorado River are balanced with the needs for Front Range water supplies. The deadline for public comment is Dec. 29.
Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, December 24, 2008; Page A01
Senior aides in the new administration and the congressional leadership privately predict that they will be able to please both camps but suggest that there have been delays in identifying enough of the environmentally friendly projects to reach a dollar level that will truly jump-start the economy. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/23/AR2008122303023.html
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.
