Homestake Creek seen below Homestake Reservoir south of Red Cliff. The U.S. Forest Service in March approved an application from the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs for geotechnical drilling in the Homestake Valley. The approval brings the cities one step closer to the construction of a new dam and reservoir.
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EAGLE COUNTY Warren Hern says the time for compromise is over.
“The public needs to rise up and say ‘don’t do this, ” Hern said Wednesday.
The longtime defender of the Homestake valley has rallied his Holy Cross Wilderness Defense Fund to join five other conservation organizations in threatening legal action against the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regarding the recently approved effort to drill 10 bore samples up to 150 feet deep in an area of national forest roughly 10 miles south of Minturn.
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