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<br />000408 <br /> <br />Additional Comments: <br /> <br />. Need local funding and spending authority. <br />. Funding must be from watershed and spent in watershed. <br />. Makes users responsible for species declines, internalize costs of destructive action <br />into market. Everybody is responsible so everybody pays. <br />. Continue/modify state nongame "stamp." <br />. Tax the rich (individuals, corporations, environmental groups). <br />. Continue to require the Endangered Species Act on ALL private lands. <br /> <br />7) Education and Public Relations (outreach) <br /> <br />Workshop participants emphasized the need for education and public relations in order to ensure <br />public understanding, participation, and responsibility to help reverse the decline of native <br />aquatic species. Participants also emphasized that an educational effort would help promote the <br />necessity and advantages of a watershed based approach by highlighting the relationships <br />between various activities and their impact on native aquatic species. <br /> <br />Existing resources. tools. information and partnerships available to achieve desired <br />results: <br /> <br />RESOURCES/METHODS <br />- Great Outdoors Colorado <br />- Public Television <br />- Newspaper advertisements <br />- School programs <br />- Beta Non-Point Source education programs <br />- Agricultural Extension <br />- Water festivals <br />- State and regional fairs <br />- ProjectWild/RiverWatch <br /> <br />WHO <br />- CO Division of Wildlife <br />- CO Department of Public Health and Environment <br />- US Fish and Wildlife Service <br />- National Park Service/National Biological Service <br />- US Forest Service <br />- US Department of Agriculture <br />- US Environmental Protection Agency <br />- County and local government <br />- Water Conservation Boards, etc. <br />- CO Riparian Association <br />- Farm Bureau and farm organizations <br /> <br />12 <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />~ <br />~ <br />tl! <br /> <br />,0,-"" <br />~ <br /> <br />I <br />