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[Ouray County] Weather THE [ouray county] Weather . .The Marketplace Schools . 8. Sports & Entertainment . 9. Calendar . 12 Sudoku . 12 Classifieds . The Marketplace WATCHVOLUME 2, NUMBER 38 | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2008 WATCHN EWSPAPERS.COM HOPEFULS – Presidential hopeful Barack Obama appeared in Grand Junction at the Cross Orchards Historic Site on Monday morning, Sept. 15 to speak to a swing-state crowd about the economy and other issues. Over 45 Ouray County Democrats attended the event. The Ouray County Watch has posted a story at ouraycountywatch.com. More coverage will follow in Friday’s edition of The Telluride Watch. (Photo by Christopher Pike) Fall Rolls In and Haying Colorado’s Season Wraps Up Proposed New Haying a Steadfast rancher Cliff Ary, “You only get Grass is the primary hay crop one cutting of hay a year at this grown in the county, including Element of Ranching elevation.” So ranchers want to timothy grass, clover and orchard Roadless Rule Economy, Lifestyle make that one cutting count. grass. Ranchers at lower eleva- Irrigation begins early in the tions such as Montrose, Delta and Millions of Acres Could Be Opened to BY ERIN RALEY summer. Ary wets his 120-acre Grand Junction have the luxury of fields three to four times over growing alfalfa as well as grass Roads, Drilling, Power Lines OURAY COUNTY – The on- the season. He then starts cutting hay, and they are able to fit in a BY CHRISTINA CALLICOTT set of fall brings crisp air, golden around July 25 and, depending few cuttings a season. leaves and a fresh dusting of snow on the weather, lets the hay sit Sixty-one-year-old Henry on the peaks. The green fields of for two to three days. Ary then Potter has spent his whole life RIDGWAY – With four million acres at stake throughout Colo- summer, with their tall lush grass- rakes, bales and stacks in the same ranching in the region. Potter has rado, the Forest Service’s new proposed roadless rule has environmen- es, are now reduced to stubble. day, but he’s hardly alone in this to grow enough hay to feed 225 talists, recreationists, hunters, and fishermen up in arms over what they Ranchers have been working process. mother cows for the entire winter. see as potential threats to some of the state’s most pristine, unfragment- tirelessly since July to cut, cure, “This is still a family opera- “You spend all summer grow- ed, unimpacted lands, as well as the waters that flow from them. bale, and stack hay to sustain their tion,” said Ary. “My wife runs the ing it and all winter feeding it,” The management history of the nation’s roadless areas dates back cattle through the winter. baler, our daughter rakes and my According to long time local son-in-law helps me stack.” see HAYING on page 15 see ROADLESS on page 10 The Bush administration is rushing this rule in an attempt to give away even page page more of our public lands to industry before it leaves office. 7 9 – Amy Mall, senior policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council 2 • OCW | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2008 THE OURAY COUNTY WatCh regiOn Crucial Grand Canyon Sandbars Have Rapidly Eroded PHOENIX (AP) – Newly The requirement says that flood created sandbars as large as enough sediment to be deposited helped speed the extinction of built-up sandbars crucial to when Lake Powell has extra football fields. But the sandbars along the shoreline – about ev- four fish species and push two wildlife in the Grand Canyon water, some of it needs to be re- began shrinking in April and ery one to two years. others near the edge. have rapidly eroded in the last leased to Lake Mead on the Ar- by August, appear to be much Since 1963, the Glen Can- The sediment provides a four months, some shrinking izona-Nevada line. The require- smaller, about the same size they yon Dam has blocked sediment habitat for plants and animals, back to the size they were before ment is designed to ensure that were before the flood. from the Colorado from flowing builds beaches for campers and a costly manmade flood. Colorado River states all get an Four to five times the normal downstream, turning the once river runners and helps protect Torrents of water were re- equal share of water. amount of water was released muddy and warm river into a archaeological sites from the leased from the Glen Canyon cool, clear environment that elements. Dam on the Arizona-Utah line in March to mimic natural flood- ‘Circumstances conspired against ing and rebuild sandbars along the 277-mile stretch of river in our being able to protect the the Grand Canyon, where the Colorado Senate ecosystem was forever changed beaches as long as we had hoped.’ by the dam’s construction more than four decades ago. – Superintendent Steve Martin Officials had expected ero- Candidates Talk sion following the three-day flood, but they hadn’t expected Lake Powell rarely has ex- from the dam during the flood, so much so fast. tra water because of extended picking up sediment and depos- Health Care “Circumstances conspired drought, but a wet winter led iting it in sandbars. The 20 per- against our being able to protect to the highest water level in the cent higher flows this summer KEYSTONE, Colo. (AP) – credit toward their insurance. the beaches as long as we had reservoir in six years. That trig- then washed away much of it. Senate candidates Mark Udall Udall touted comprehensive hoped,” Grand Canyon National gered the requirement in April, a Compounding the erosion is the and Bob Schaffer agreed Satur- health care reform, including Park Superintendent Steve Mar- month after the three-day flood practice of sending more water day on the need for better access expanding the children’s health- tin said Tuesday. “Substantial in the Grand Canyon. through the dam in the daytime to affordable health insurance insurance program, providing erosion has occurred.” Between April and Sept. 1, to maximize power generation, but supported different ways to families with health-tax credits, The accelerated erosion is officials increased flows from then trimming output at night. reach that goal. providing small-businesses ac- the result of a requirement to the Glen Canyon Dam by 20 Martin said some benefits Rep. Udall, a Democrat, and cess to private and public health release extra water from Lake percent. Time-lapse videos tak- remain from the three-day flood, former Congressman Schaffer, a care pools, banning the practice Powell, said John Hammill, chief en by the U.S. Geological Sur- and despite the erosion, more Republican, discussed medical of barring people from purchas- of the Grand Canyon Monitoring vey of two sections of the Grand floods should be released into issues during the Colorado Medi- ing health insurance because of and Research Center. Canyon show that the three-day the canyon whenever there’s cal Society conference Saturday, pre-existing conditions, and di- Sept. 13 in Keystone. recting the federal government Schaffer talked about having to barter for lower prices on pre- similar industries form a coali- scription drugs. tion to purchase health insurance, Both candidates indicated the ability to purchase insurance that Medicare needs some re- nationwide and a refundable tax- forms, and both supported an- credit program that would allow titrust laws against insurance low-income patients to apply the companies. .FBUt1SPEVDF#SFBEt(SPDFSZ G:8:EI>DC Weekly Sale! 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The court de- turnouts. Road and Bridge Superin- according to County Administra- sures such as a four-day work week, much drivers are expected to ex- cision, however, is on appeal.
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