9356

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9356
• Author: Wigington, R.
• Title: Water Right Marketing Strategies to Protect Instream Flows in Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1990.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

reasonable and good policy as against upstream, mostly
conditional juniors, then the Conservation Board is obligated
under the second stage of the agreement to change the water right
to instream use in water court and to enforce it. The
Conservation Board will be the sole applicant in the change of
water rights proceeding, except that the accommodation on the
Gunnison Tunnel water rights must be incorporated into the change
decree, and The Nature Conservancy can compel the Conservation
Board to go to trial in the change proceeding if the Conservancy
is not satisfied with any proposed settlement.
So you see we have come a long way from the G. Berkeley
Ditch transaction and The Nature Conservancy has been impressed
by the willingness to negotiate exhibited by the Conservation
Board, its staff, and the Uncompaghre Valley Water Users.
V. Yampa River Strategies.
On the Yampa River the Conservancy sees the purchase and
conversion to instream use of the conditional water rights for
the Juniper-Cross Mountain Project as fundamental to the
protection and recovery of 4 endangered native fish. These 4 big
river fish have been decimated throughout their historic range
and the Yampa and upper Green Rivers are their last stronghold.
The relatively natural hydrograph of the Yampa River and the
hundreds of unimpeded river miles in both the Green and Yampa
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