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t --+ <br />that all of us possess, but we ought to try. <br />In conclusion, let me emphasize what you all know from your <br />experiences in public life. The best results, the only lasting <br />results, come from community consensus. That is not a homily, <br />that is a profound truth. All of us have seen examples, some <br />small, some large, of people meeting, talking, compromising, and <br />reaching a common ground, the highest ground of all. <br />My real point here is that our whole community cannot now <br />participate equally because the process is closed in fundamental <br />ways. The lords of yesterday skew Colorado water toward certain <br />things. They include extractive development, the stability of <br />existing rights, farm land and city lawns. Those are all respec- <br />table and legitimate things, especially when they implicate our <br />struggling ranch and farm communities. They unquestionably <br />should be in the formula. But so should many other things. The <br />lords of yesterday deny those other things and we will not have <br />made things right in this best and most glorious of all places <br />until we broaden the inquiry and give a fair say to economics, <br />conservation, canyons, beauty, geologic time, and even the <br />spirits. <br />-18-