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Additional Comments <br />• Need local funding and spending authority. <br />• Funding must be from watershed and spent in watershed. <br />• Makes users responsible for species declines, internalize costs of destructive action <br />into market. Everybody is responsible so everybody pays. <br />• Continue /modify state nongame "stamp." <br />• Tax the rich (individuals, corporations, environmental groups). <br />• Continue to require the Endangered Species Act on ALL private lands. <br />7) Education and Public Relations (outreach) <br />Workshop participants emphasized the need for education and public relations in order to ensure <br />public understanding, participation, and responsibility to help reverse the decline of native <br />aquatic species. Participants also emphasized that an educational effort would help promote the <br />necessity and advantages of a watershed based approach by highlighting the relationships <br />between various activities and their impact on native aquatic species. <br />Existing resources, tools information and partnerships available to achieve desired <br />results <br />RESOURCES /METHODS <br />- Great Outdoors Colorado <br />- Public Television <br />- Newspaper advertisements <br />- School programs <br />- Beta Non -Point Source education programs <br />- Agricultural Extension <br />- Water festivals <br />- State and regional fairs <br />- ProjectWild /RiverWatch <br />WHO <br />- CO Division of Wildlife <br />- CO Department of Public Health and Environment <br />- US Fish and Wildlife Service <br />- National Park Service /National Biological Service <br />- US Forest Service <br />- US Department of Agriculture <br />- US Environmental Protection Agency <br />- County and local government <br />- Water Conservation Boards, etc. <br />- CO Riparian Association <br />- Farm Bureau and farm organizations <br />12 <br />