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<br />~\\lIAT DO YOU get when you cross a
<br />'tUlle Tennessee Hi,'ef snail darter with a
<br />_.South Platte River Pay,nee Montane Skip-
<br />per butterfly?
<br />Possibly, you would get a small, ex().
<br />,{kally colored flying minnow which would
<br />'batch from a cocoon and qualify for the
<br />lnkrior Dt>partrnent's endangered-species
<br />jlst. Then you could introduce It to key
<br />stretches of the many threatened trout
<br />-streams leIt in the country and presum.
<br />:Ilbl)' save all of them from extinction due
<br />1.0 construction of dams.
<br />r,.. I, like many other fishermen, nature
<br />lovers and amateur environmentalists,
<br />~m all for anythIng which stops further
<br />'destruction of trout streams.
<br />::: But stopping it because of snail darters
<br />,~od rare butterflies is doing it for the
<br />.. wrong reasons.
<br />, FOR THOSE WHO may have missed it,
<br />the :;;nniI darter is a nearly extinct fish in
<br />the Little Tennessee RIver. Protected by
<br />the national Endangered species Act, this
<br />obscure minnow-found nowhere else that
<br />anybody kno\\"S about-has resulted in
<br />halting t'Ol'lStroction on the almost finished
<br />$1l9 million Telliro Dam.
<br />The Pa""nee Montane SkIpper butterfly
<br />(maybe the better word would be gadfly)
<br />Is the South PlaUe's equivalent of the
<br />snail Jarter-or at least, it could be.
<br />I The critter makes its home along 12
<br />' mfles of the South Platte canyon near
<br />Dem'er. Is isn't your e,'eryday butterfly.
<br />I You .....on.t find one in the back-yard rose
<br />. garden. The stretch of the Platte It lnhab-
<br />! Us just happens to be among the 17 miles
<br />; ot the river's South Fork that would be
<br />t Inundflted by Ille long-plann~ Two fwks
<br />1 Dam near the confluence of the North and
<br />'South Forks.
<br />I The U.S. Fish and wildlife Senice has
<br />\ nominatl'd the butterfly for inclusion on
<br />the endangerl'd-spccies list and also
<br />proposes to declare that 12-mile section
<br />"critical habitat" lor the "Skipper." or
<br />"Pa"'nee" or whatever we should call it.
<br />Either one of those actions could block
<br />construction of Two Forks, which would
<br />be built by the U.S. Bureau of Redama-
<br />! tion and used for water stora.ge by the
<br />Denver Water Board. Plans for the dam
<br />are dormant. despite the fact the water
<br />board says the storage capability it ....wld
<br />provide is imperative to the area's future.
<br />As a trout fisherman and outdoorsman
<br />who loves rivers and their canyons, I'm
<br />tempted to praise God for rare butterflies
<br />land minnows. But I'll say it again: If this
<br />butterfly causes the demise of Two
<br />I Forks, which deserves killing, It will be
<br />deat.b lor the wrong cause. Killing Two
<br />Forks can be viewed as justifiable
<br />I t hOmicide for any number of other per-
<br />'lecUy valid rf'aS(JOs.
<br />I JOH\' mm.\f1SGHAM. the lormer
<br />t slate senator and an opponent of Two
<br />Forks and the Foothills Water Treatment
<br />Project of the Denver Water Board, had
<br />a perceptive CGmment a few weeks ago.
<br />t Said Bermingham, "I don't think we
<br />have to resort to a lousy little butterf-
<br />ly... ,md I don't think we should."
<br />Bermingham probably doesn't have
<br />anything more (or less) "tgainst but-
<br />terflies, endangered or otherwise. than [
<br />~ do. The point is that the rationale in the
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<br />minds of a lot of people against Two
<br />Forks inclurles a lot of good reasons. And
<br />they have nothing to do with a butterfly
<br />that most people couldn't ldentify if it
<br />flew up their noses.
<br />Why don.t we sa~'e those 17 miles of the
<br />main.stem Platte and the lesser mileage
<br />of the north fork simply because the river
<br />etists?
<br />Particularly in the case of the South
<br />Fork. we are talking abo\.!t probably thE'
<br />best trout stream in America that is
<br />v.ithin 50 miles of a metropolitan area of
<br />more than a million people.
<br />There is nothing that can compare to it,
<br />unless )'Ou count the steelhead or salmon
<br />rivers within similar distances of places
<br />like Portland, Ore.. or Seattle. But such. a
<br />comparison isn't valid because there ls a
<br />difference between a trout stream and a
<br />steelhead-salmonrlver.
<br />The South Platte has stream-bred wild
<br />browns and rainbows that spawn, li~'e
<br />and die in the river. The Pacific :-':orth-
<br />west rivers carry anadronous fish. which
<br />spend most of their time in salt water.
<br />Even If one doesn't fish for trout. or
<br />know the different between a rainbow and
<br />a catfish, he would have to be callous to
<br />tho grandeur of a great natural re9:lUrce
<br />to dismiss the South Platte Canyon as
<br />just another trickle of water through the
<br />rocks. It Is a spectacular. scenic wonder,
<br />which is the home for a variety of ri\'er-
<br />area wildlife aside from the trout that
<br />fishermen catch.
<br />I DOS'T CAnE if I never see another
<br />Pawnee Montane Skipper butterfly and,
<br />in fact, I don't know whether I've seen
<br />one yet. But I do care if I never again
<br />see a trout rise in a sun-sparkled riffle.
<br />or a beaver dam on a side channel, or a
<br />deer crossing a wlllowy island, or a water
<br />ouzel bobbing in the shalJows.
<br />I do care if the Arkansas River or the
<br />Cache la poudre becomes known as the
<br />only trout stream of major consequence
<br />on the Eastern Slope, because either one
<br />would be a poor substitute_
<br />I do care if someday my now-12-year-
<br />old daughter would have to point out into
<br />the middle of a lake and tell her own
<br />children that she caught her first trout on
<br />a lly rod in a ri,'er that's under 100 feet
<br />of water.
<br />I do care if the construction 01 Two
<br />Forks-or for that matter. FOothllls_
<br />speeds up the process by which the Front
<br />Range strip cities become the Los An-
<br />gelesof the Rocky Mountains.
<br />There are alternatives to Two Forks.
<br />and they should be COnsidered for all of
<br />these and a list of other reasons.
<br />One of the lowest on that list. as far as
<br />this writer Is concerned, is an obscure
<br />l)'ltterfly.
<br />Why should we protect the South
<br />Platte? To paraphrase the mountain
<br />climbers. because it's there.
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