Entrepreneur Aaron Million on Friday filed for a second hearing on a federal permit to study development of seven hydropower sites along a 501-mile buried water pipeline that he’s proposed from Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Wyoming to a series of new and expanded reservoirs he’s planning from Fort Collins to Pueblo.

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Entrepreneur Aaron Million on Friday filed for a second hearing on a federal permit to study development of seven hydropower sites along a 501-mile buried water pipeline that he’s proposed from Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Wyoming to a series of new and expanded reservoirs he’s planning from Fort Collins to Pueblo.

Million’s project would pump 200,000 acre-feet of water a year through federal lands to supply the Front Range and to generate electricity at the power stations.

On Feb. 23, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission dismissed Wyco Power and Water Inc.’s application for a preliminary permit on the basis it was premature. Officials said there was no purpose in issuing a hydropower permit without information on construction and operation of the pipeline, which Million couldn’t provide.

Conservationists hailed the decision as a victory for the environment because, they said, Million’s project, which would divert water from the Upper Colorado River Basin to Front Range cities, would drastically lower the level of Flaming Gorge Reservoir, threaten four species of endangered fish, and further harm ecosystems, wildlife and recreation.

“We hope that FERC will reject this appeal, and the project will die a much-deserved death,” wildlife biologist and fisheries protection advocate Erik Molvar said in a statement from the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance.

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“For the last year and a half I’ve been trying to synch up my shooting schedule with a spring creek restoration effort. So I was stoked when Shannon Skelton, a senior fisheries biologist and president [...]]]> Travis Lowe, CEO of documentary producer Cinema Digital, to include a CFI stream enhancement in his upcoming film “Spring Creek“.

“For the last year and a half I’ve been trying to synch up my shooting schedule with a spring creek restoration effort. So I was stoked when Shannon Skelton, a senior fisheries biologist and president of CFI Global Fisheries Management invited me down to Colorado to take a look at some work CFI is about to do on a spring creek next summer.”

“I’m tremedously excited to work with Shannon and be afforded the opportunity to see some restoration work in the midst of it actually happening. ” – Travis Lowe

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CFI was honored to have one of our recent stream enhancement projects featured in the Denver Post. This project, located just outside Evergreen, had substantial challenges including a lack of high water habitat, riparian cover and macroinvertebrate production. This stream now boasts a blue-ribbon experience while maintaining small stream intimacy.

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CFI was honored to have one of our recent stream enhancement projects featured in the Denver Post.  This project, located just outside Evergreen, had substantial challenges including a lack of high water habitat, riparian cover and macroinvertebrate production.  This stream now boasts a blue-ribbon experience while maintaining small stream intimacy.

““CFI tends to utilize more natural techniques to improve fish habitat,” said Nathan Green, a regulatory project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers who has worked with Skelton on several fish-habitat improvement projects.”

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Poor width to depth ratios were a constant theme on this stream restoration project and required extensive point bar work to correct.

Hall & Hall, the premiere ranch real estate broker of the west, recently published this article from CFI-Global Fisheries Management President and CEO Shannon Skelton on the changing perceptions of the ranching and fishing communities and how collaboration and fisheries enhancement is yielding new opportunities for each.

A look at a typical river section through the stream restoration area before work.

“CFI is a full-service river, lake and pond fish habitat design, restoration and management firm”

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