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...Countryside Commission for England and Wales has pledged to reforest 390 sq km (150 sq. mi.) of the industrialized Midlands with 30 million trees. The state of Maine has announced its intention to restore salmon and sturgeon to the Kennebec River by acquiring and breaching a 154-year-old dam. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has drawn up plans to regenerate wetlands killed off by flood- control projects. And in partnership with the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Illinois Nature Conservancy has begun to resurrect thousands of hectares of prairie and woodlands. "We can be part of nature...
Furthermore, farmers have been favored not only in how much water they get but also in how much they pay for it. Much of the water available from the Colorado has been produced by federal reclamation projects such as the Hoover Dam, and the government, to encourage agricultural development, has made this supply available to farmers at low cost. This practice has led to wild pricing disparities; some farmers in Colorado get their water for $400 an acre-foot, one-twentieth the amount it costs neighboring municipalities...
UTILITIES. The era of stringing huge dams along the Colorado peaked during the '30s and '40s and is long gone. And the relatively cheap hydroelectricity -- and handsome profits -- generated by existing facilities is now being weighed, and found wanting, in the light of other concerns. One long-running dispute concerns the Western Area Power Administration's operations at the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, just above the Grand Canyon. The agency releases huge amounts of water through giant turbines to meet peak power demands in places as far away as Phoenix. These dramatic surges of water create artificial "tides" that...
...Bureau of Reclamation was principally responsible for the development of the Colorado; it planned and engineered the % big building projects, all funded by congressional appropriations. Critics say the bureau has become an anachronism, no longer able to manage the Colorado and its myriad problems. "They're a bunch of dam builders," says former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, "and there aren't any dams to build. They have been unable to adjust to the new reality...
ENVIRONMENT Quebec's Crees vs. the world's biggest dam project...