Cutthroat Chapter of Trout Unlimited Conservation Auction

The Cutthroat Chapter of Trout Unlimited will hold its Annual Conservation Auction on Tuesday, November 17. The doors will open at 6:30 pm. Admission is free. The event will help raise funds for the chapter's conservation activities such as Cheeseman Canyon trail maintenance, help fund a graduate fellowship at Colorado State University Department of Fish Biology and Wildlife, and the chapter's stream improvement activities.

More than 150 items will be available for bid through a silent auction and a traditional verbal auction. Items to auctioned include fishing trips, fishing equipment, professionally tied flies, art items, and much more.

The event will be held at Terrace Gardens, 13065 East Briarwood Avenue in Englewood (just south of Arapahoe Road, 2 miles east of I-25). Please contact Bill Richards at 303-909-1375 or go to www.cutthroatctu.org for more information or directions.

Study to determine origin of sediment in Lightner Creek

by Dale Rodebaugh - [Durango] Herald Staff Writer

Buck Skillen, a board member of Trout Unlimited and a water-quality monitor for River Watch, a Colorado Division of Wildlife program, has called attention to the inconsistent clarity of Lightner Creek for five years, Maloney said. This summer enough people were listening to form a task force, with Maloney assigned to coordinate efforts. Read more

Groups seek protection for streams

BY BOBBY MAGILL • BobbyMagill@coloraoan.com • October 29, 2009

Colorado Trout Unlimited and Clean Water Action say they fear pollution could threaten trout habitat and drinking water for cities along the Front Range because some of the region's water supply originates in streams that may be unregulated because the streams can't be navigated by boat and are dry some of the year.

Read more

Pitkin County water rights could boost Roaring Fork River

Janet UrquhartThe Aspen Times

Pitkin County is poised to loan its water rights to boost flows in the Roaring Fork River — an unprecedented move made possible by state legislation adopted last year. Read more

Info The diplomacy of water

Review of Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West (Second Edition) from High Country News - by Matt Jenkins

Now, Water and the West is back, in a second edition with a new preface and epilogue. Many good books on the topic have followed in its wake, but Water and the West remains the single most important source for understanding the origins of (and the seemingly incomprehensible political gyrations behind) the 1922 Colorado River Compact. Read more

Pipeline critics get a seat at the table

Casper Star-Tribune Online - Editorial

Public hearings in southwest Wyoming have shown overwhelming objections to Million's project. Residents are worried that it could hurt local industry, curtail future growth in Green River and Rock Springs, and threaten a world-class fishery. Read more

Williams looks to help repair Clear Creek

By Charlie Meyers The Denver Post

First, as a board member of West Denver Trout Unlimited, he [Miles Williams] served as director of the heralded Golden Mile project that breathed a $250,000 revival into the creek just upstream from the town of Golden. Work was completed last year.

Now he has taken the lead in a similar surge of fundraising for what will be the Courtney Riley Cooper Park in Idaho Springs.

http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_13605156

Meyers: Caraghar's Clear Creek roots run deep

By Charlie MeyersThe Denver Post

"There needs to be some awareness. It's a controversial little creek. There needs to be some regulations. Take Bear Creek, for instance. If it wasn't for the work by Trout Unlimited to get catch-and- release on rainbows, it would be virtually sterile by now."

http://www.denverpost.com/charlie/ci_13605158

River, Fooses Creek receive restoration

Audrey Gilpin - Mail Staff Writer Habitat restoration was completed in August at Fooses Creek and the South Fork of the Arkansas River, which feed two antique hydroelectric plants operated by Xcel Energy.

During a tour of the restored sites last week, U.S. Forest Service fisheries biologist Phillip Gaines said the project began after studies found the sites east of Garfield and below Maysville had insufficient fishery habitat.

Collegiate Peaks Anglers and Cheyenne Mountain chapters of Trout Unlimited donated $5,000, Xcel Energy contributed $50,000 and the Colorado Division of Wildlife made in-kind donations to the project.

"Trout Unlimited really came to the rescue," Gaines said.

http://www.themountainmail.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=17539

New storage eyed as Colorado confronts more people & less water

By Allen Bestspecial to the Summit Daily

 

Representatives of environmental groups concede the need for additional storage but also call for restraint.

“There are projects that have significant adverse environmental impact that we could not support,” said Melinda Kassen, managing director of the Western Water Project for Trout Unlimited. “And there are projects that have substantially fewer environmental impacts that we can support,” she said, if mitigation measures are included.

http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20091019/NEWS/910189983/1078&ParentProfile=1055