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<br />I Black' Canyon aswit)!in water debate
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<br />park superintendent SheridanSt('('].
<br />"The National Park Service. is sup-
<br />po5('d,toprotectLhenaturalvalut:S>
<br />and we're trying to do that."...."
<br />The rub: l':nvironmental groups
<br />say lhe park service isn't claiming
<br />enough walt't.
<br />In a canyon where-'the river
<br />plunges 95 (('('tevt'ry mile-one
<br />of lhe grl'alpsl drops of any North
<br />. Amt'rican river - the park sf'rvice
<br />should he df'manding more than
<br />just high spring flows, the groups
<br />say. The park S(>rvice also should
<br />get legal guarantees for t'hough
<br />watl'f to ensure ht'althy trout popu.
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<br />TilE DENVER POST
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<br />By Mark Obmasclk
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<br />How mu('b water does illake to
<br />kill a trt't!? That'S'one of the key
<br />qUl'slions the National Park Set-
<br />viet' is trying to ansWf't in one of
<br />the highrst.stak('!l Colorado water
<br />righL\ in yran..
<br />At iliad Canyon of the Gunnison
<br />National Monum{'nl Ileal' Mon-
<br />tf'os{', federal dam5 have wittLheld
<br />so much flow !rom th{' Gunnison
<br />Hiv{'r that box eldrn. and wlllows
<br />hav!' slarted to grow in the t1epths
<br />of tht' 2,000.foot chasm.
<br />If the environment inside Ihe
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<br />(,3n)'On wrre natural, 1M vE'g{'ta-
<br />lion wouldn't be thE're, park offi-
<br />dais say. !kfore lhe dams were
<br />built, the canyon depths were
<br />sroured every yt'ar by vast flood
<br />flows of snowmelt. .
<br />So the National Park Service 15
<br />proposing, for the first time, 10 ol>-
<br />tain the legal rights toenougb wa-
<br />ter that, the agency says, will pro-
<br />Ipct the natural environment of the
<br />12-milE' {'anyon.
<br />"Without a rE'tum to more natu-
<br />ral flows, someday a vWktr would
<br />stand at lht> canyon rim and all yoo
<br />would see is the tops of trees," said
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<br />lations all YE'ar, they iay.
<br />The Gunnison Hiver is OnE" of the
<br />West's lop trout streams.
<br />., "Unfortunately, the park ll("rvke
<br />did not propose the strongest CBS("
<br />it could," said Melinda Kass~'n of
<br />Trout Unlimited. "If the park S('r-
<br />vicE" dOE'Sn't get more walt"f, {'!ilK"-
<br />dally in the wintt"r, thai fishery
<br />will Jx.declmaled."
<br />At issue in the Black Canyon is
<br />the basic 'naturt" of a 20,700-acre
<br />tract that now survives at the mE'r-
<br />cy of three major fedrral dams
<br />that form B1ul' Ml'sa, Morrow
<br />~oint and Crystal ft"S('rvoirs. Ik--
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<br />caus{' IhuS(" upstn'am dams WI
<br />built a{tt"r thrnational monun
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<br />water right wt"akt'r than lhl' mUllu-
<br />mrnt's.
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<br />Hut tht'Nationall'arkSt'rvir...is
<br />trying to strik{> a compromisl' lJy
<br />agn't'ing to wf>akt'n its own right 10
<br />(;unnisun HiV('r water, so that the
<br />naliunal monumrnt g("ts equal I,d,
<br />ority for rlV('r flows with th~, U,S.
<br />lIur("au of Ht'Clamation's dams,
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<br />"We'rr trying to r('slll'o'(" this
<br />through nt'gollatt-d :wHII'm('nt in,
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