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Taryn Hutchins - Cabibi's Group <br />Impacts <br />➢ Livestock and agriculture impacts <br />➢ Tree stress <br />➢ Summer camp delays based on safety- economic impact <br />➢ Dry wells <br />➢ Air quality - public health <br />➢ Heightened awareness =water conservation <br />➢ Aquatic hatches impacted <br />➢ Fly- fishing, rafting impacts <br />➢ Change in approach in farming sustainability <br />➢ Needed to pump water to Pagosa <br />Needs <br />➢ Reserved grazing allotments <br />➢ Aquifer status and health assessments <br />➢ Municipal back up for dry wells <br />➢ Better moisture content and evaporative rate observations /monitoring <br />➢ Increase need for public education <br />➢ Fire response: formulate response for sediment loading <br />➢ Information on how to protect trees that were stressed <br />➢ Increased public health resources tied to air quality <br />Imtiaz Rangwala's Group <br />Impacts <br />➢ Huge wildfires <br />➢ Ecosystems with a 500 -year interval were affected <br />➢ Urban interface: loss of homes <br />➢ Homeowners became aware of fuel clearance around home <br />➢ Businesses established to help homeowners <br />➢ Fires had impact on water quality because of high rates of sediment coupled <br />with the low streamflows- struggled with water quality, no one wanted to drink <br />water <br />➢ Florida River was impacted: fishery crashed due to water quality, high water <br />temperature, still recovering <br />➢ How to manage rangeland on US Forest Service land and BLM: drought already <br />takes a toll on rangelands tied to increased temps and low precipitation <br />Needs <br />➢ Grazing stress on top of drought stress: early warning drought needed! <br />➢ Need assessment of changing land use, grazing operations <br />➢ Currently it is very difficult to adapt, a reactionary approach: early warning <br />needed <br />➢ Best case /average case water supply scenario are no longer vialbe: need <br />increased awareness and use of other scenarios <br />