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DenverPost.com - OPINION <br />HONES JOBS - AUTOS - CLMSW*M ADSEMCH T"VMDEALS Thursday, August 18, 2005 <br />DENwRPosr.com Denver, CO <br />Page 1 of 4 <br />NEWS OTHER OPINION <br />BLOGHOUSE Link To Article Print Article Email Article ESSAYS - -f <br />BUSINESS Article Last Updated: 08/16/2005 11:32:04 PM • Loving libraries to <br />COLUMNISTS death E'' <br />FRONT PAGE �� <br />LOCAL NEWS • A better way to save <br />NATION /WORLD Paul johnson youth son 9111E Sim <br />OBITUARIES • Letters, !1 � <br />PODCASTS Colorado's most precious • Mike Keefe's cartoon <br />POLITICS 8/18 <br />SPECIAL REPORTS resource • U.S. gas tax funds x <br />WEATHER make a round trip <br />FEATURES By Paul Johnson • Iran and the nuclear, <br />BOOKS Colorado Voices, Grand Lake axis t, <br />COLUMNISTS <br />COMICS • Right steps on adult <br />ENTERTAINMENT business <br />FOOD &DINING Six o'clock is cold this late summer morning. A first • Elementary schools <br />HEALTH g' shouldn't be teaching a <br />LIFESTYLES white tracing of frost is underfoot, a reminder of the homosexuality <br />MRAVEL coming white treasure every Coloradan craves in • Colorado's most <br />TV LISTINGS early November. Water brings the traffic to our precious resource< <br />OPINION • Letters, quiet mountain village; the boaters in summer, the •� <br />COLUMNISTS snowmobilers in winter. It is the lifeblood of a ear- • Mike Keefe °s cartoon. <br />EDITORIALS y 8117 <br />LETTERS round tourist resort. Our town was founded on • Lobbyists' disclosure YOU CAN GE <br />PERSPECTIVE <br />KEEFE CARTOON miners dreams of silver dust, but the rainwater and should be bolstered <br />MESSAGE BOARDS icy white snow dust make the fortunes these days. • Working overtime in OUT IN THE <br />WRITE FOR US l� <br />SPORTS • Xcel's cheeky effort to AND HAVE <br />AVALANCHE / NHL There is another value latent in this water treasure, evade PUC curbs FUN AGAIN. <br />BRONCOS / NFL one we have just recently remembered. Here, in the • Preserving what isn't <br />COLLEGES there <br />COLUMNISTS alpine valleys of the Colorado River watershed and • Letters 8116 <br />CRUSH/AFL in trickling streams across the Rockies, lies the true • Settlers sacrifice for WITH DSL <br />EXTREMES gift. The life force that carved the awesome Grand <br />GOLF g peace bid FROM OWEST;'' <br />MAMMOTH / NLL Canyon is greedily sought after, twice used before it • N.M. makes a stand at YOU GET <br />NUGGETS/NBA ever reaches that desert canyon. It nurtures the border <br />OTHER SPORTS • Letters 8/15 RELIABILITY! <br />PREPS cities downstream - fertile irrigated hay fields in • Fiscal fix crucial to SPEED AND <br />RAPIDS /MLS Kremmling, orchards in Grand Junction, wildlife schools <br />ROCKIES /MLB habitats in Dotsero, thirsty livestock grazing in • Questions on new FLEXIBILITY. <br />SCORES <br />SERVICES Parachute, the very stuff of life. military role <br />ABOUT US /HELP • Toxic waste cleanup <br />ARCHIVES getting short shrift <br />CONTACT US The mighty headwaters rising out of Rocky Mountain • Political winds shifting <br />E -MAIL NEWS National Park are a priceless gift, taken for granted. for credo <br />INTERNSHIPS That is until the snows stop coming in deep drifts • Writers on the Range: <br />RIDE THE ROCKIES � p g p <br />READ & WIN no human can cross, and when the gentle summer Dead birds tell us much <br />• Oil shale drive has <br />SUBSCRIBE rains become drizzling ist instead of torrents. In <br />TRAFFIC g risks for the West <br />ADVERTISING its diminished form, it is now the most valuable of • Not such intelligent i <br />AUTOS commodities. design <br />FANTASY SPORTS • Quillen: When safety, <br />HOMES liberty conflict <br />.LOBS I don't join the spirited arguments of global • Brown: Once you win <br />MARKETPLACE <br />MEMORIALS warming or not, of millennial climate cycles or not, you're in <br />NEWSPAPER ADS take the sides of environmentalists or business - it's • Schoettler: King <br />PERSONALS George at recess <br />WEDDINGS most often heated and useless. All I know is that • Roosevelt: 70 years of <br />YELLOW PAGES something changed, spring rains and endless snows Social Security_ <br />HOME breeding life are fewer and lighter, and those <br />PODCASTS <br />ETHICS POLICY shrinkin g white cornice drifts are the insurance <br />ETHICS <br />SEARCH policy for thirsty hordes waiting downstream. <br />Site Search <br />Yet we would still deny it changed. In our denial, we <br />Entersearchterm forget the monumental cities we built in <br />breathtakingly artificial green urban paradises down <br />below. The water course is traced through Colorado <br />http:// www. denverpost .com/opinion/ci_2947233 8/18/2005 <br />