7943

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7943
• Author: Getches, D. H.
• Title: As Wildlife Goes, So Goes The West, ‎(for the annual meeting of The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)‎.
• USFW Year: 1985.
• USFW - Doc Type: July 17, 1985.
• Copyright Material: NO

1'1 COLORADO SOIL CONSER\.ATION DISTRICTS, THE STATl: HIG~,'.I^Y

DEPART~'E~'T, THE STATE FOREST SERVICE, AND OUR DI VISION OF vJILDLIFE

H^ \f. POOLED THEIR FINANCIf1.L MID POLITICAL STPENGTH TO F:STARLISH A

LI VI NG SNQ'I'lFENCE PROGRAM THAT BENEF ITS ALL.

BY ~NERING A COOPERATI \f AGREEMENT ~OR \-JILDLIFI= MAf\lAGFMF!\IT
ON INDIAN RESER\.ATIONS INSTEAD OF FIGHTING WITH ONE ANOTHER WE HA \f
S.r, \ED TR~~1ENDOUS TIM~ AND i'PNEY -- AND B::NEF ITTED \tIIUl.. IFE. I:LSEvIHr:RE,
WILDLIFE INTERESTS HA \E BEEN SO ACCUSTQ'1:D TO OPPOSING INDIANS THAT
THEY E \F~ c\PPOSED INDIAN ATTEMPTS TO PROTECT FISH HABITAT.

IN COLORADO \^lATER DE\ELOPMENT INTERESTS AND THE DIVISION 01=

\4ILDLIFE COOPERATE CLOSELY IN A.N AGGRESSI \E PROGRAM OF PROTECTI"'!r,

I NSTREArvl FLa~S BY USING THE PRIOR APPROPRIATION SYSTEM OF STATE WATER

LAW. FISH MJD \tHLDLIFE HABITAT IN THOUSANDS OF STREAI'-1 MILES AND MANY

LAKES IS PROTECTED BY THE SAME KIND OF WATER RIGHTS HELD BY CITIES AND

IRRIGATION DISTRICTS, RIGI-fTS RESPECTED AND DEFENDED BY WATER

DE V:LOPMENT INTERESTS.

THOUGH \;.JILDLlFF: AD\OCATES CAr-INOT EMBRACE THE TOTAL PHILOSOPHY

OR PROGRAM OF MANY GROUPS, THEY CAN AND SHOULD LOOK FOR COOON GROUND

AND OPPORTUNITIES TO WORK TOGETHER. IT WILL GI \.f THEM BOTH EFFECT! \E-

NESS AND CREDIBILITY. TOGETHER THEY vlILL HA \E A SYNERGISTIC AD\1'\NTAGE.

PF:RHAPS THE ffiST EFFECT I \E WAY TO BROADEN SUPPORT FOR WILDlIFE

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