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Editors' Call
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Update to Trail Creek Case Study
Community Parks and Urban Drainageways
Trespass Case on La Jara Creek
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Editors' Call
by Tom Slabe and Steve Johnson
Depending upon where one decides to draw the line, riparian issues can thread into an astonishingly large number of aspects of life here on our watery planet. For instance, in her note on The Headwaters Outreach Initiative, Carolyn Schott briefly describes how a focus on riparian systems can help instill in middle school students a greater appreciation and awareness of the relationship between people and the natural world. Legal issues, conflict, and money enter into the riparian realm as Larry MacDonnell reports in Legal Developments and Jeremiah Martinez and Daniel Lopez describe in their article, Trespass Case of La Jara Creek. Architecture, development, and regional planning strategies are highlighted as Michelle Leach describes practices that improve community parks and drainageways while enhancing riparian ecosystems. The quest for improvement is central to life and is widely covered in Alan Carpenter's Research Developments as well as in Brian Murphy's article on Post-Fire Watershed Recovery of Trail Creek. The ebb and flow of issues concerning riparian areas and wetlands is almost endlessly diverse, as the agenda for the 2007 Sustaining Colorado's Watersheds conference can attest: water quality, water supplies, politics, energy, mining, nitrogen deposition, wildfire, land use, endocrine disruption, and much more. Controversial issues surrounding riparian systems are bound to increase with increasing demand for existing water supplies and ongoing changes in land uses, especially in the arid west. The need to remain vigilant is ongoing and riparian and wetland ecosystem monitoring, protection, and restoration activities seem to be increasingly important. Thank you for your involvement and interest in riparian area and wetland issues and in the Colorado Riparian Association. We sincerely hope that you enjoy this issue of the green line.
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