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<text id=90TT3225>
<title>
Dec. 03, 1990: American Notes:Colorado
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Dec. 03, 1990 The Lady Bows Out
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 57
American Notes
COLORADO
Score One For the Trout
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<p> Time and time again, the Environmental Protection Agency
has been outflanked by White House officials more concerned
with economic growth than environmental protection. So the
EPA's decision last week to block construction of Colorado's
Two Forks Dam was a victory not only for picnickers and
sportsmen but also for the Administration's in-house
conservationists.
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<p> The billion-dollar water project would have turned Cheesman
Canyon into a vast man-made lake, covering an area between two
forks of the South Platte River known to outdoorsmen as the "St.
Peter's Basilica of trout fishing." The EPA decided to block the
dam because it would destroy a valuable wildlife and
recreational area. Colorado officials condemned the decision as
"shortsighted." But biologist Carse Pustmueller of the National
Audubon Society applauded the move. "The project is absolutely
not viable under the Clean Water Act," said Pust mueller. "This
whole Two Forks saga has educated everybody that water is
finite. We can't just keep building more projects."
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