At the 10-year anniversary of William Reilly's veto of
Colorado's proposed Two Forks dam, the continuing growth of
Denver's sprawling suburbs leads some to worry that the dam might
well be brought back to life.
Magazine
November 20, 2000
At the 10-year anniversary of William Reilly's veto of Colorado's proposed Two Forks dam, the continuing growth of Denver's sprawling suburbs leads some to worry that the dam might well be brought back to life.
Feature
Sidebar
Denver Water Department head Hamlet 'Chips' Barry
describes some of the lessons the city has learned from the Two
Forks veto.
Former Colo. Gov. Dick Lamm believes that the state's
continuing population growth will make the Two Forks veto a
temporary and Pyrrhic victory.
Colorado River Water Conservation District head Eric Kuhn
says the Denver suburbs have some difficult choices ahead in their
quest for more water.
Essays
The writer offers a post-mortem on the defeat of
anti-sprawl initiatives in Arizona and Colorado.
Arizona's anti-growth Proposition 202 failed largely
because its well-heeled opponents blanketed the airways with often
inaccurate advertising.
Perspective
HCN's political columnist considers the recent, weird and
not-quite-finished election, and suggests that if George Bush turns
out to be the winner, he will have to govern from the middle, which
could prove good news for the environment.
Heard Around the West
SPAM & Tofurky; suggestions for Wyoming 'Survivor'
show; good bumper stickers; singer/songwriter Greg Brown;
Dear Friends
Conservationists mourn the recent death of David Brower,
former Sierra Club director, founder of Friends of the Earth and
Earth Island Institute, and passionate fighter against dams and for
the wild.
News
Among the Western election results highlighted are the
failure of anti-sprawl initiatives in Colorado and Arizona, a ban
on game farms in Montana, and legislative races in Montana, Idaho,
Utah and Colorado.
Citizens of Creede, Colo., a small historic mining town,
are split over businessman Don Shank's plans to run a tourist train
from South park to Creede on Union Pacific's abandoned
tracks.
Nevada conservationists are stunned by the recent
dismantling of the state's Division of Water Planning, largely due
to ranchers, miners and rural officials who resented the
recommendations of its recently revised state water plan.
Vermilion Cliffs is a new mounument in Ariz.; Forest
Service can buy land in Colorado's Red Mountain Mining District;
NFS to buy land in Wash. from Plum Creek Timber Co.
A committee of rock climbers, wilderness advocates, Forest
Service officials and others is at a stalemate on the question of
whether permanent climbing anchors should be allowed in wilderness
areas.
Oregon may set a precedent with its planned transformation
of the defunct Trojan nuclear power plant into a state
park.
Wireless phones have become popular among the rural
residents of the Southwest's sprawling Navajo
Reservation.
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