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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Exlllblt j <br />QUESTION 3: What are the most significant baniers to achieving your organization's goals for stream corridors? <br /> <br />Organization Stream Corridor Goal Barriers <br />ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS <br />Boulder Creek Watcnhcd Initiative Financial support to maintain community based monitoring network. <br />CO Water Conservation Alliance We don't have any goals relating spccifically to stream corridon. <br />Colorado Division of Wildlife . Puttman All oflhc above. <br /> We arc primarily an educational organization. not advocacy or policy oriented. Time and money limit the <br /> depth of our work on specific projects SlWh as stream protection. We do promote and teacb watershed <br />Roaring Fork Environmental Eduoation Association education. <br /> 1) Managing proper use of riparian zones on public lands; 2) Use oflcgal/tcch rcsourcclI to combat improper <br /> 404 permits on private land; 3) CW A insufficiently powerful to deal with all stream/wctland disturbance <br />Sierra Club, Rocky Mln. Chap..... Cwmmgham problems <br /> Water mangcmcnt and flood control developments, potential hydropower developments, land use practices like <br /> instRam gravel mining and cxtrcem grazing of riparian areas that cause impacu to neighboring lands thru bank <br />Vallev Land Consavaney destabilization. Ch8MCI changes. <br />FEDERAL AGENCIES <br /> Ignorance leading to political opposition; Resistance to management concepts that ~ different from ''the way <br /> we've alwa)'l done it"; Sticking to old concepts like channelization, riprap, trapezoidal, over-designed <br />Evironmcntal Protection Agency - HamiltonlRuiter charmels./Political opposition to protection/restoration of naturals)'ltcms. <br />US Geological Survey. Lystrom Consistently ICcurin funding for research, monitoring and analysis. <br />USDA. Natural Resources Conservation Service education, cultw-al backgrowuls, fmancial, political. environmental <br />USFWS Political barricn ~ the most difficult to overcome. People refuse to stay out of the floodplain. <br />FLOODPLAIN" SPECIAL DISTRICT <br /> Political, tcchnicial, and fmancial. We must convince elected officials that watcnhed health is worthy of <br /> changing development codes and spending money. We also must devise cost-effective solutions to watcnhcd <br />Fountain CRek Watcnhcd Project instability. <br />Grand JWlCtion Drainage DUt Political- USF&WS, Corps ofEngincen <br /> Politicallfinancial. A significant amoWlt of private land exists along stream comdors within our planning <br /> region and many local governments arc loathe to be perceived as infringing on private property rights and local <br />Northwest Colorado COG funding is extremely limited/Significant land value pushing development closer to streams. <br />San Miguel Watenhed Coalition technical and financial <br /> Politcal - getting through the superfund mandates with negotiated process - building trust, excrcizing good <br />Upper Arkansas River Restoration Project sense, meeting locallandowncr wishes & resolving legal liability requirements. <br />WATER ORGANIZATIONS <br /> Political. getting all landowncn to work together cooperatively to improve the health of the river corridor. <br />Alamosa River Watcnhcd Project Financial - funding erosion control work. <br />Battlement Mesa WCD Environmental and legal relltrictions. <br /> Establishing these goall ~ caaentially a local land use issue which our organization docs not get involved <br />Colorado River WCD - MerrittlI'enney in./gencral acceptance of the nature ofatreams and rivers - they ~ dynamic <br />Upper Gunnison WCD All of the above. [Underlined 'technical. fmancial, political, or othen' in question.] <br />