FORU ANNUAL MEETING
Presentations will give up dates about:
The City of Montrose River Master Plan & River Overlay Zone, Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership, Planning, Accomplishments and others.
Dinner Meet, Greet and Eat!!
FORU will provide Lasagna and Beverages for dinner
Bring a dish: Salad and Dessert Pot luck
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Expect a call from a FORU Board member to invite you
personally to the Annual Meeting, to become a member if you haven't already, and to up date the current contact list.
Fundraiser
A NEED TO PRESERVE AND A NEED TO RECLAIM
One of the more dramatic instances of point and counterpoint in Ouray County is the need to preserve the long silent historical mining structures of an era gone by and the modern-day need to remediate some of these mining sites to improve the health of our watershed.
Many tourists come to Ouray County to explore mine sites and sift through the waste dumps for a shiny mineral or two. However, these structures are disappearing due to collectors’ uninformedintentions, simple neglect and the passage of time, and the fact there isn’t enough money to preserve them. Similarly, it has been documented that some of these same mine sites continue to have anegative impact on our watershed through their waste water effluent containing harmful contaminants.
Don Paulson, curator of the Ouray County Historical Society (OCHS),and Andrew Madison, staff member for the Uncompahgre Watershed Planning Partnership (UWPP), will partner in a fundraiser to benefit
both organizations equally. Using skis or snowshoes, they will lead a 3 mile tour on Saturday, February 20th, 2010, on the lower end of CR 31 to visit the Guston, Robinson, Genesse- Vanderbilt, and the Yankee Girl (among others) to draw attention to the need certain mine sites have for either preservation and/or remediation.
The tour will take 4 hours, from 10am-2pm, and will include a catered lunch plus a hot toddy/tea and coffee. The cost is a minimum of $25/person (write checks to OCHS) and reservations are required. There is a limit to the tour group size, and we will meet at the Ouray Visitor Center at 10am to carpool to CR 31. Please R.S.V.P. to Andrew Madison at: ridgway.vista@gmail.com ,and for questions, please call Don Paulson, 325-0931.
Deadline to RSVP is February 17th.
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