Imagine a clean, green Cache la Poudre corridor

FORT COLLINS – Western rivers have long provided humans with food, drink and transport routes. In Northern Colorado, they have make farming possible on what amounts to high desert. And since the first tourists arrived to ogle the Rockies, rivers have provided visitors with abundant recreational opportunities. What rivers have not done until recently is serve as prized urban amenities.

Throughout Colorado, river revitalization projects have ranged in scale from the small in communities including Estes Park, Golden and Steamboat Springs to the grand Historic Arkansas Riverwalk in Pueblo. When people linger longer on the banks of urban waterways, everybody…