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...Lower Colorado (Act of 1928) Also gets 7.5 million acre-feet...
Sources: Bureau of Reclamation; Colorado River Users Association...
...hike up Red Creek Road, a nine-mile zigzag up the side of Red Table Mountain in Colorado's White River National Forest, is to experience what yoga classes aspire to visualize. You wind through canopies of blue spruce trees to emerge in soft meadows of swaying wildflowers. A gurgling stream escorts the trail, and silvery sagebrush perfumes...
Along with hundreds of other White River trails, Red Creek is endangered--or close to being saved, depending on how you look at it. The 2.3 million-acre White River National Forest is Colorado's biggest playground, encompassing everything from the popular resorts of Vail and Aspen to alpine meadows populated only by elk. This year 31 million people are expected to visit, up 10% from just four years ago, fed by Colorado's booming popularity. Every 15 years the U.S. Forest Service must create a new land-use plan for the region, and the draft released...
When the service proposed banning vehicles from 47,000 more acres--adding to the 784,000 acres already closed off--a political firestorm ensued. Colorado Congress members and their snowmobiling constituents accused the service (an agency usually criticized as being a caddy for timber companies) of putting ferns before humans. The White River Conservation Project criticized the plan as too little too late and called for blocking off 300,000 additional acres. "Red Table is one of the finest undisturbed mixed forest stands in the Rocky Mountains, and making it a wilderness area would protect that," says the project...