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Summit Daily January 5, 2022 Almost nine years after the initial design report for the Swan River Restoration Project was released, Summit County’s work on the publicly owned portion of the project is nearly complete. By the time 2022 comes… Read more »

High County Anglerwww.hcmagazine.comFall 2021 3,400 feet of river. $1,586,000 Development. Floodplain. Flow modifications. Encroachments. Bank stbilization. Storm water. Functional ecosyste, Channel alignment. Marginal fish habitat. Improved fish habitat. angling access. Reservoir releases. Land donation. Native vegetation. Overly wide channel. Riparian… Read more »

Brown trout swarm to spawn at newly restored section of Williams Fork. January 22, 2020 | By: Todd Hartman Brown trout like this one descended on newly restored river habitat on the Williams Fork. The habitat work led to an… Read more »

Swan River Restoration Project heads into Phase 2 of dredge mining cleanup News | August 2, 2019 Deepan Dutta ddutta@summitdaily.com Restoration work has been completed on a portion of Reach A on the Swan River, pictured here in July 2019,… Read more »

Celebrate our river as we celebrate the Valley Floor By Hilary Cooper, Special to the Planet May 11, 2019   Every year we celebrate Valley Floor Day on May 9. It is a time to remember the extended community coming… Read more »

Water Education Colorado watereducationcolorado.org Feb 25, 2019

SummitDaily www.summitdaily.com June 14, 2017 Under the watchful eye of Breckenridge’s Tenmile Range, the recently rerouted Swan River continues to flow this spring, smoothing out rough patches and getting used to its new path. More than a year ago, Summit… Read more »

Telluride Daily Planet www.telluridedailypranet.com October 19, 2016 It is believed that the San Miguel River was channelized (straightened) to make it easier to transport out tailings from mining operations in the early 1900s. Environmental advocates have long regarded that decision… Read more »

Telluride Daily Planet www.telluridenews.com April 3, 2015 When Telluride purchased the Valley Floor in 2008 with the intention of preserving the open space in perpetuity, organizers immediately got to work figuring out how to restore any human tinkering that had… Read more »

Read morethe WATCH www.watchnewspapers.com February 26, 2014 MONTROSE – The bucket of a yellow swallowed large chucks of river bottom Tuesday, reshaping the flow of the Uncompahgre River with each pass. And that is the goal. Anglers who hunt texcavatorrout… Read more »

Summit Daily News www.summitdaily.com August 31, 2013 Ten Mile Creek near Copper Mounatin is somewhat featureless. Its channels are straight. The banks are dotted with lodgepole pine and few other species. However, humans have impacted this area, along the east… Read more »

Steamboat Today www.steamboattoday.com November 15 2012 The city of Steamboat Springs is starting to see the benefits of hefty grants from Great Outdoors Colorado and the Bureau of Land Management as crews work this week to restore a stretch of… Read more »

Civil Engineeering www.asce.org March 2012 Recently approved plans for enhancing portions of a2.4 mi. long segment of the South Platte River in Littleton, Colorado, aim to improve ecological conditions on a heavily modified urban waterway whose flow regime was significantly… Read more »

City of Littleton Colorado www.littletongov.org January 11, 2012 Enhancements to the South Platte River through South Platte Park will start soon in an effort to support the life that depends on the river for sustenance and the community that enjoys… Read more »

High Country Angler www.HCAmagazine.com Fall 2010 In 2005 the Denver Chapter of Trout Unlimitted (DTU) embarked on a journey to complete a river restoration project within our home waters. Meandering through the Denver-metro area, the urban section of the South… Read more »

the WATCH www.watchnewspapers.com September 16, 2010 TELLURIDE – Consultants unveiled a conceptual plan for Valley Floor trails and river restoration at a lightly attended public meeting last week that would increase pedestrian and bicycle trails on the 572-acre property and… Read more »

High Country Angler www.HCAmagazine.com Summer 2010 Today, a skilled angler can catch wild trout just about anywhere on Middle Boulder Creek, from the headwaters of the Indian Peak Wilderness through bustling downtown Boulder. Until recently however, one would not have… Read more »

Angling Trade Magazine www.anglingtrade.com March 2010 For years, the real estate world has been driven by an adage that the three things that matter most are location, location, and location. As for fly fishing (or all fishing, for that matter)… Read more »

Daily Camera dailycamera.com April 29, 2009 As David Blauch stepped closer to the creek, he saw a couple of shadows dart under the eave of a big rock. “That’s exactly what you want,” he said, pointing to the trout he’d… Read more »

Telluride Daily Planet www.telluridedailyplanet.com February 3, 2009 Back in the summertime, a small team of scientists descended on the Valley Floor. They studied the wetlands and examined the plants, researched the history, did tests on the soils, checked out migration… Read more »

Safari Club International www.scidenverchapter.com/ 2009 Often overlooked by the angler in pursuit of the 10 pounders that lay below the outlet works of many of the State’s dams is the impact that these structures have on the overall quality of… Read more »

Telluride Daily Planet www.telluridedailyplanet.com December 10, 2008 Before it legally took the Valley Floor from its previous owner, Telluride appraised the land at its doorstep at $26 million. After a protracted court case, the town paid $50 million. Now that… Read more »

the WATCH www.watchnewspapers.com July 22, 2008 TELLURIDE – Maybe you want dogs to have free run of the Valley Floor. Or maybe you don’t. What about horses – should they be allowed? How about building new trails or river restoration?… Read more »

Vail Daily www.VailDaily.com July 13,2004 When Kris and Kelly Wyatt look out their living room window over the Eagle River in Minturn they like what they see. There new home is right in the middle of a $1.1 million, mile… Read more »