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  • Fort Collins objects to Flaming Gorge Pipeline
    The Coloradoan
    By Bobby Magill
    December 20, 2011
    John Stokes’ worries about the future of Soapstone Prairie Natural Area don’t focus solely on oil and gas drilling, he is worried about how a major water pipeline could harm Soapstone, too.
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  • Green groups oppose plan for water pipeline from Wyoming to Colorado
    Bruce Finley
    By The Denver Post
    December 16, 2011
    Environmental groups from across the West filed objections Thursday to a proposed multi billion-dollar pipeline project to import water to Colorado from Wyoming — calling it a bad idea with more unanswered questions than a presidential debate.
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  • Clear Creek in Colorado the focus of trout habitat restoration project
    Denver Post
    By Daniel Smith
    August 8, 2011
    Building on past successes, Trout Unlimited's West Denver Chapter is about to begin restoration of about three-quarters of a mile of Clear Creek, northwest of Golden.
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  • Enviros protest House appropriations bill that contains major cuts to environmental programs
    The Colorado Independent
    By Scot Kersgaard
    July 25, 2011
    The U.S. House is expected to vote this week, perhaps today, on a package of cuts to environmental programs that some Coloradans find simply unacceptable. Among the cuts, spending on climate change programs would be cut by more than $80 million or...
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  • The lifeblood of water
    Cortez Journal
    By Kimberly Benedict
    July 16, 2011
    If the wilderness is the heart of a people, the river is their lifeblood. In the river and its tributaries is the force that gives energy to the land and binds itself to the lives of those who visit.
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  • Effort to Form Task Force for Wyoming Lake Under Fire
    The Durango Herald
    By Catherine Tsai
    June 27, 2011
    Officials representing Colorado river basins will meet Wednesday to consider forming a task force that would study proposals to build a water pipeline from Wyoming’s Flaming Gorge Reservoir to serve Colorado cities. Some conservationists say it’s a...
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  • Upslope Brewing Releases Craft Lager
    Drench Networks
    June 23, 2011
    Snowmelt-infused and river-ready, our Colorado-style session beer honors its upstream roots through the 1% for Rivers Campaign. One percent of revenues from the sales of Upslope Craft Lager will be donated to Colorado Trout Unlimited in order to...
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  • Letter to the Editor: Solving the Upper Colorado River Crisis
    Sky Hi Daily News
    By Bud Isaacs
    June 17, 2011
    Why is it that the state agencies headed by the Division of Natural Resources are allowing trans-mountain diverters to kill the Upper Colorado River? The Colorado Division of Wildlife, Trout Unlimited and many other concerned groups have been...
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  • Is the Colorado River Dying?
    Summit Daily
    By Janice Kurbjun
    June 13, 2011
    Landowner and recreation groups, together with Trout Unlimited, aren't happy with a decision made late last week by the Colorado Division of Wildlife Commission to endorse a static Upper Colorado River Basin mitigation package submitted in April by...
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  • Colo. Wildlife Commission Opposes Over the River Project
    Summit County Citizens Voice
    By Bob Berwyn
    May 9, 2011
    Citing concerns about impacts to wildlife, especially bighorn sheep, the Colorado Wildlife Commission will oppose the Over the River landscape art project, proposed for the Arkansas River. The commissioners decided at their meeting last week...
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  • Colorado River: ‘It shouldn’t be about power and money’
    Summit County Citizens Voice
    By Bob Berwyn
    May 7, 2011
    Grand County residents and other Colorado River advocates want more assurances that two proposed new transmountain diversion projects won’t wipe out trout populations in headwaters streams like the Fraser River . “The bottom line is, I have a gold...
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  • Front Range Can Meet Its Water Needs on Its Own
    The Daily Sentinel
    By Peter Van De Carr
    May 2, 2011
    Water is an integral part of life in the West, and meeting our future water needs is one of the biggest issues facing all of Colorado. So it’s refreshing to see that a report released this month, “Filling the Gap,” that shows that the Front Range...
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  • Fraser's Ehlert says diversions damaging food sources on Colorado River
    The Denver Post
    By Scott Willoughby
    March 30, 2011
    Concerns over the health of the entire Upper Colorado River drainage have been magnified in recent months by proposals from Denver Water and Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District to annually draw an additional 45,000 acre feet from the Fraser...
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  • Drew Peternell: Filling the Front Range Water Gap
    Denver Huffington Post
    By Drew Peternell
    March 8, 2011
    In coming decades, Colorado's Front Range will face booming population growth and a "gap" between water supply and water demand. The discussion of options for meeting the gap continues to focus on old ideas including huge trans-mountain pipelines,...
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