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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Poudre River <br />2-2-2-2-2 <br /> <br />Beginning at the continental divide, the poudre River flows east <br />across the Colorado plains to join the South Platte River. Named by early <br />French explorers who buried a cache of gunpowder along its banks, the <br />Cache La Poudre Canyon is the longest scenic river canyon on the entire <br />eastern slope of the Rockies. <br />The Poudre is one of 12 Colorado rivers authorized for federal study <br />through legislation sponsored by the late Sen. Peter Dominick of Colorado <br />in 1973. Brown's bill labels the first 18 miles of the river as the "Peter <br />H. Dominick Wild River Area." <br />The U.S. Forest Service began its.study of the Poudre in 1977, <br />resulting last April in a recommendation to Congress to designate 62 miles <br />of the 83 miles of the river studied by the Forest Service. <br />Rivers designated as part of the National Wild and Scenic River System <br />are classified as 'wild," "scenic" or "recreational." <br />"Wild" rivers are defined as free of impoundments and generally <br />inaccessible except by trail, with essentially primitive watersheds and <br />shorelines and unpolluted waters. -Scenic" designation is similar, except <br />that watersheds and shorelines may be accessible in places by roads. <br />"Recreational," the least restrictive designation, applies to rivers that <br />are readily accessible and which may have shoreline development and may <br />have some impoundments and diversions. <br />III <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />HB-99-1-21 <br /> <br />6880 <br />