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II <br />• <br />-2- <br />River. Whether or not Ashley's trappers made the famous cache, <br />his party was almost certainly the first to enter the Poudre's <br />mountain gate. <br />The river and its corridor support a broad range of outdoor <br />recreation activities: an excellent cold -water fishery, <br />designated by the State as wild trout water, as well as <br />excellent hiking, picnicking and camping. Besides the fact that <br />the Cache 1a Poudre is a beautiful river corridor and offers <br />easy access to the nearly two minion people of the Front Range <br />of Colorado, the river has long stretches of free- flowing river <br />mileage on the eastern front range of the Rocky Mountains in <br />Colorado. <br />Since the nineteenth century, the Poudre River, from its <br />headwaters, has been intensively managed for importation, <br />storage and conveyance of water. The earliest transmountain <br />diversion structure in Colorado carries water from the <br />headwaters of the Colorado River into the headwaters of the <br />Poudre River. Numerous small reservoirs exist on tributaries to <br />the Poudre River in these upper reaches. Nevertheless, the <br />Poudre River mainstem and the South Fork of the Poudre River <br />have remained undammed above the canyon's mouth northwest of the <br />City of Fort Collins. <br />Designation of seventy -five miles of the Cache la Poudre <br />River in north - central Colorado as Colorado's first Wild and <br />Scenic River is the result of long - standing efforts to strike a <br />balance between conservation and water supply interests <br />