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<br /> <br />paga 4 - Thursday, Juno 28, 1990 <br /> <br /> <br />PINIO~ <br /> <br />Daily News-Press <br /> <br />Serving Douglas County since 1892 <br /> <br />"Competition brings out the <br />best in products and the worst in <br />people." <br />David Sarnoff, American <br />broadcaster <br /> <br />Publisher <br />Editor <br /> <br />Bob Lombardi <br />Richard Bangs <br /> <br />Douglas County Publishing Co., WiD D. Jarrett, president <br /> <br />EDITORIAL <br /> <br />Water plan a good idea <br /> <br /> <br />Castle Rock has made great pro- watering and then set watering <br />gress on the water front schedules and initiate some xeris- <br />Just a year ago the town couldn't caping to try to reach the 30 per <br />account for all of its water. Now it cent goal. <br />is embarking on an ambitious plan It also would require new land- <br />to cut by 30 percent the water it scaping to be designed to conserve <br />uses to irrigate public property. water. The plan goes so far as to <br />Councilman Steve Boand has allow fines against city depart- <br />been pushing the plan and told ments that do not abide by the <br />fellow councilmembers that the plan. <br />.teWIH1Ged&.w.-set-an-exam.p1e.JLit-- _In _Colm:ado, and e.spe.dally... _ u .. __ _ _ __ _ ._. _ .. _ __ __ . <br />expects residents to try to conserve Douglas County which relies large- <br />water. ly on groundwater, the conserva- <br />Castle Rock now has watering tion plan is a much-needed and <br />restrictions that begin the first of late-in-coming proposaL <br />May, the earliest in the Front Boand and the council should <br />Range. _ move forward on the plan and <br />Under the Boand plan the town residents should give their full sup- You can s av <br />would monitor its open space port to the plan. <br /> <br />Abortion issue is likely <br />to be boost for GOP women <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />NEW YORK - OK, gang: It's pop <br />quiz time. <br />Question 1: Which of our two political <br />pnrties could make significa.n.t gai!ls. i.n <br /> <br />h, _~.i.L ~;J;;' <br />,,?,>' ,:,;h ... <br />~ 'f. : <br />" -- <br /> <br />When the Europeans arrived in Amer- <br />ica, there were 850 million acres of <br />virgin forest. How much of that would <br />you guess is left? Fifty, 40, even 20 per <br />cent? Not quite - less than 5 per cent <br />remains standing, according to the u.s. <br />Forest Service (USFS), but even that <br />may be an overestimation, <br />Project Lighthawk, a group of south- <br />weStern pilots who keep an aerial eye on <br />man's impact on the environment, has <br />surveyed six national forests in Washing- <br />. - - - -... ......-- ~-- <br />