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<br />COLOR,
<br />
<br />Sle~el
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<br />Environmental
<br />
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<br />
<br />groups oppose
<br />wilderness bill
<br />
<br />Compromise doesn't
<br />guarantee acreage the
<br />"water that sustains it'
<br />By Bill Sc:_nlon
<br />'.....-.i:_n""'.."'u"/W"'....
<br />
<br />Colorado ~n\1ronmetlta1 groups
<br />ye-s!erda~ vowed to fight the com.
<br />pronust' wildemns bin beau~
<br />lhey say it ~'t guanntee 1NI\
<br />the 641,000 a~ - and futu:rt
<br />k1T.IIgt"-willgetthewaterna-
<br />lurebeslowed.
<br />II's II bill only farmen and water
<br />de-\'e-lopenCllnklvl',rheysay.
<br />"Why l>tIouldn', ~rnl'" ~
<br />entllled to the W3ter that &UlItains
<br />lit' Joanne Caner at the Wilder.
<br />nns Society asked yntl'rdlly.
<br />}olllmght'rgrOllpinopposalltthe
<br />compromise bill are the !>>ena
<br />Club. Colorado Wildhfe- Fedl'u.
<br />lIon. Till' LAW hnd. Sheep
<br />Mounum Alliance. Trappers Lake
<br />Group. Colorado Mountain Club
<br />and lhe Colorado Em'LronmenLilI
<br />Coalition,
<br />Colorado Sens, Tun Wirth and
<br />Hank Brown last w~k carefully
<br />carn.dth.....'ildl'~nareastoln-
<br />dud.. - ,,'nll on.. exceptIOn _
<br />acreljte upstn!.&m 01 any water
<br />pro)l'{:1S.That..-ay.lllewllderness
<br />areOls wouldn., be threatel1('(j b)'
<br />de~l'lopmenl. l'\'en though Ule}.
<br />wouldn.' be granled water-right
<br />guarantees.
<br />But coosenationists Yl'stl'rday
<br />Ihulld~~tbatllt th~\'erj'leul.
<br />Colondo ~s.s dese~ u
<br />much prot~tion as "ruonll. Wash.
<br />l1\glon. ro;evada and !'<;~.... MeXICO
<br />ha""'rec-o.-l~ed,lnth~"'.e$tern
<br />$tales.\I{dderlle&llauI$Ue~l_
<br />edJUIllor...'ater rights at the time
<br />of desiRT\oltion. That way, nnch-
<br />en. fannen or citIeS wrth senior
<br />ni!hts.clIn't mcreaselhelTusei!ll
<br />IurmSlhef'k..-todo...-nstrellm...ll.
<br />
<br />,
<br />dernessareas.
<br />The Colorado bill only a1Jows
<br />wildeT11fi$ 10 Ouy semor ",'aler
<br />rights Irom farmerS-. That's an
<br />oulnjl'eolU ....aste of ultp.llyer
<br />money. said Tina Acapkiles of the
<br />S~rra Club. '.The AmellClll\ publi(:
<br />is gOU'lg to ba\'e to p.ay lor some-
<br />thinglMI we lIlreadyown- wa-
<br />terin wUdernes.s:'
<br />Tbe precedent could hum
<br />downstream areas considered lor
<br />wilderness prOl:Ktion in the fu-
<br />tur~, say con~rvationists. Th~
<br />one downstream area mcluded ill
<br />the Wuth.8ro....n compromise -
<br />the PIedra Rwer ....ilderness an.a
<br />nt'1IT Pa!tos.a Spnngs- i5proof.
<br />tMyuy. The bill imlista that the
<br />Colorado WOller Cons.ervation
<br />Boatdm.aintalIlahighenough~
<br />tok~pthefl!.hpoplllatioointM
<br />Piedra River healthy. But thafs
<br />nolenoui!htosuslam....aterfallsor
<br />np;man ecosystems.
<br />Other enVlronmenlllli$t~ com.
<br />plain the carYlI1J!ol arellsldt out
<br />tracts that desen'ed prolt'Cunn,
<br />mdudmg Sparush Peak!; m HUl'r.
<br />!aoo Countv and a stretch Jll'ar the
<br />Wilh.lms Fork River that Den~er
<br />Iseyellli!lor....aterdevelopment.
<br />Sevl'nlare..sth.a!....e~desig.
<br />NI~~-Fos.silRjdge,
<br />Grl'enhorn Mount.am, ServIce
<br />Cr~k and others - ha~ pnv.te
<br />ditch righta m them that must be
<br />booored.Theort:tic.ally.tbeO'lVll.
<br />enoithosedilchescaninc:ruse
<br />diver~oanddryuptbewikler-
<br />nessstreams..
<br />Con$ervationisu do not want to
<br />use 1I patch.-ort of ...i1demess ar'
<br />eas 10 hold up ~elopmenl every-
<br />where forever, Carter said. Tbey
<br />would support.o:nnpromiseth.lt
<br />would allow de~eJopmeot OD
<br />$treamsth.alflowthroughwilder.
<br />ner.s. bUI ttut 'WOUld guarantee
<br />lha:tlhe...ildemes&retlinawUder_
<br />ne-ssvalUl'$.
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