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Background: <br />The Coalition for the Upper South Platte (CUSP) is a nonprofit watershed group working <br />in Colorado's Upper South Platte watershed. The watershed covers 2600 square miles southwest <br />of the Denver metro area and ranges in elevation from a little over 6000 ft. above sea level to <br />over 14,000 ft. at the Continental Divide. The watershed is critical resource for the State of <br />Colorado, supplying municipal water to over three quarters of the state citizens and providing <br />recreational access for over 3 million visitors per year. Every mammal the calls Colorado home <br />can be found in the watershed in biologists with the Colorado Natural Heritage Program <br />considered to be one of the most biologically important areas of the state with numerous globally <br />unique plants, plant communities, butterflies, and other threatened and endangered species. <br />Since 1996, the watershed has also experienced numerous catastrophic fires including the 2002 <br />Hayman, at 137,000 acres the largest fire in Colorado history. <br /> <br />