WMOD00566

• Title: Snowpack Augmentation in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado
• Date: 1/1/1989
• State: CO
• Country: United States
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

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Table 1

WOSA Stakeholder Groups
Identified in 1974

Bureau of Reclamation
Cattleman and ranchers
Cloudseeding contractors
Colorado Mining Association {individuals, mining companies,
mining communities)
Congressmen
Downwind residents
Ecologists
Elected representatives of mountain communities
Electric power companies
Farmers
Federal government
Federal weather modification regulatory agency
Grand Mesa Water Users AssClciation
Industries
Irrigators .
Loggers
Mountain communities and c(lmmunity leaders
Panel on Public Information :ill Weather Modification
People afraid of interfering with nature
People with weather-related interests
Protectors of the public interl~st
Public Health Service
Senators
Ski area owners and operators, skiers
State and local governments
Target area residents
Tourist industry, tourists
Water users (especially in Arizona and California)
WOSA scientists, forecasters

Source: Weisbecker 1974:359 (see reference 1).

Durango is the largest town in the San Juan area, with a population of H,649.11
It lies at the gateway to the tall mountains, in rolling countryside where ranching
and tourism are the predominant economic activities. Some 20 miles to the north,
along Highway 550, lies Purgatory, less a town than a highly developed ski resort.
In the summer it is nearly deserted. Heading northward over Molas Divide (10,910
feet) one descends. into SilvertoI1l, a town of 797 inhabitants)2 The entire town
of Silverton is a National Histodc District. It was founded on mining in 1874, and
still has mines that operate off and on providing a major--but spasmodic--source
of employment.I3 As the terminus of the Durango-Silverton narrow-gauge rail-
way, a major tourist attraction, Silverton enjoys a summer influx of visitor dollars,

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