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Ritter touts rafting deal, sinks 24 competing ballot measures

By | 06.15.10 | 12:19 pm

Gov. Bill Ritter Tuesday announced an agreement to end the dispute between two commercial rafting outfitters and a private landowner along Colorado’s Taylor River that prompted a heated legislative battle this past session.

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Landowner will allow rafting through property after bill sinks

By | 05.15.10 | 7:38 am

The company that prompted one of the more hotly contested bills of the legislative session – House Bill 1188 dealing with commercial river rafting – announced Friday it would allow two outfitters to float the Taylor River through its property…

Boating bill swamped by controversy, may lead to summer of river conflict

By | 05.13.10 | 9:40 am

A controversial commercial rafting bill – one of the most contentious issues of the just-completed legislative session – sank in choppy waters this week, launching an almost certain push for a citizen-driven ballot measure or two and giving rise to…

Curry to float bill aimed at ending rafter-landowner rights disputes

By | 01.08.10 | 8:41 am

The stories have reached almost rural-myth status in Colorado’s high country: rocks being thrown at paddlers, wires strung across rivers at head height, even occasional shots fired. The problem? Some private landowners really don’t like it when rafters or kayakers float through their property.