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Colorado Central Magazine

We put our toes in, and the water wasn’t bad

Article by Clint Driscoll

Arkansas River Forum – July 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine

Attending the second annual Upper Arkansas Watershed Forum in CaƱon City April 19 and 20 felt like riding a raft down the river during spring run-off. There were as many differing opinions and expectations among the participants as there are rocks and whirlpools in the Numbers. If you weren’t paying attention while making small talk during breaks and meals, you would find yourself floundering between a wake of property-rights proponents and an eddy of no-growth wilderness advocates.