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<br />10/22/97 <br /> <br />I <br />! <br />\ <br /> <br /> <br />WED 08:35 FAX 9702480601 <br /> <br /> <br />GEORGE ORBANEK <br /> <br />USBR WCAONV <br /> <br /> <br />~~ <br /> <br />10-19-97 <br /> <br />. <br />More on another fish ti"ont: You have to admire the <br />moxy of those guys and gals in the {J,S. Fish & WildlJfe <br />Service who are charged with managing the cndan. <br />gered fish recovery program. It takes more than the <br />usua! quite ample amo1lllt offedara! cheek to suggest to <br />the city of Grand J1lIlction that it Just might be a good <br />idea to surrender the old Jarvis propeliy Just west of <br />the Fifth Street viaduct as breeding ponds for <br />squawlJsh, <br />The centra! focus of thc early years of the Grand <br />Junction/Mesa County Riverfront Commission was the <br />clean-up and subsequent purchase of the old Jarvis <br />Junkyard at the contluence of the Gunnison and Colo- <br />rado rivers, The city contributed almost $I million <br />toward the purchase of the Jarvis property. Hundreds <br />of thousands of dollars more came in from grants Md <br />other private-sector sources to help purchase and reM. <br />bilitate the "grand junction" of the state's two largest <br />rivers, <br />Now, because the city sank a few stanchiOns in the <br />Colorado River to support the new Old Mill Bridge con- <br />necting Orchard Mesa to the lower downtown, the feds <br />think some squawflsh habitat mitigation might be <br />needed and the old Jarvis property seems made to <br />order. <br />C'mon, The recovery program has long been crill- <br />clzed as being based On jlIDk science. The feds' tentative <br />Jarvis property grab does nothing but validate such <br />criticism. <br /> <br />~ <br />