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What's wildlife our worth? <br />-adDENTLY many developers• <br />chore of a. roadblock to Two. Forks <br />land owners have come to <br />than a constructive- document on. <br />look upon the Colorado Division of <br />Wildlife as a kind of anti-growth <br />mitigation. __­._,. k - _1­11 <br />. So water planners too to the eg- <br />Jobby unfairly manipulating . the <br />public's love of wildlife to fight jobs <br />islature, where Rep. Bob Shoe- <br />maker, Demoaalid rancher from <br />and prosperity. <br />Cafton City, prodif ced HE 1244. <br />House Bill 1244, proffered by. <br />Shoemaker's bill has since been <br />development. interests, woWt put. <br />but-it's IOM. W harsh. <br />ra kwonmitigation.ofwiidlffe' <br />the brakes on mitigation.of;wildlife ' <br />'Abetter solatto,i.Lis,milable. The <br />habitats. If a private land d4velOPer <br />Wildlife ComfniSs!Ou,, m�hictt.' super: <br />wanted,to.bulldm a, fishing stream <br />UB JM <br />vises the. *4.10 .ftasimposed-toid <br />Iff'- <br />g0pWO, itaft-*lMe' <br />or nge <br />--e6ectivelyi, 14,1im Ado, so: by; <br />would', <br />gation <br />the- DOW,,&Aft" & pre_ <br />c!� WSW= <br />muz4ing any w"fi,officer seek- <br />li MAW <br />I po cy., <br />ing repair, ek replacement; for the, <br />reviewed iri the 1987 legislature. <br />. , <br />damagedbabitalL This approacX would at least,re- <br />The division is-notwithout faulL <br />duce- the. decibeWm the debate. <br />Wildlife staffers . triggered, - a flasb, <br />last fail, when, they hurriedly <br />Given a level, playing, AM,, the two. - <br />sides= woul& have rational recourse., <br />point <br />figured a I sWpho*$213 <br />price - <br />to - protection of, Colorado's IPCW <br />replacement cost Ur. damage to the" less wilMe —,whilw-at- the.-saxne <br />replacement <br />South Platte Canyon, caused, by'; <br />time giving developers- specific and <br />Denver's proposed TVoYorks danL <br />,fair operating guidelines. 4illing <br />That's. thane the cost' -of{- <br />more <br />the- Shoemaker bill ti3 yen. -the , <br />the whole project. It jolted the wa- <br />General Assembly emwork toward <br />ter intezvots . and seemed to. be, <br />such a result next year. <br />