{"id":1157,"date":"2009-01-05T20:09:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2009-01-05T20:09:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:09:41","slug":"land-along-big-t-may-go-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/land-along-big-t-may-go-up-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Land along Big T may go up for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Publish Date: 1\/2\/2009<br \/>\nLarimer County works on compromise plan for land along Big Thompson River<br \/>\nBy Kathryn Dailey<br \/>\nLoveland Reporter-Herald<br \/>\nDrake resident Dallas Maurer considers himself an avid fisherman of the Big Thompson River, which flows just across the street from his house.<br \/>\nAlong the Big Thompson Canyon, from Loveland to Estes Park, Maurer says there are miles and miles of access for fishermen, which is one of the reasons he supports the sale of a piece of county-owned land in his neighborhood to a private owner to stop the loitering and other \u0153abuses\u009d by members of the public.<br \/>\nThe 2.6-acre piece of property in question is one that has created some tension between neighbors and fishermen and is one of more than 100 pieces of land that Larimer County bought after the 1976 Big Thompson flood.<br \/>\nThe county has sold five pieces of the property and is deciding whether to keep the others for public access.<br \/>\nTo help appease both Drake residents and fishermen who want to retain access to the river, Larimer County hired a surveyor to identify 10-foot buffers on both banks of the river to be retained for fishing access, said Natural Resources Director Gary Buffington.<br \/>\nThe remainder of the land would be put up for sale.<br \/>\n\u0153We&#8217;re trying to use that model other places in the canyon,\u009d he said.<br \/>\nThe proposed plan likely will go before the Larimer County Parks Advisory Board for consideration this month, said board chairwoman Linda Knowlton.<br \/>\nIt would then go to the Larimer County Board of Commissioners for final approval.<br \/>\nMaurer, who has only read about the potential plan in Parks Advisory Board minutes, said it should help satisfy all parties involved. \u0153That should take care of all the trespassing and all the other issues that come in with the public,\u009d he said.<br \/>\nWalt Graul, organizer of Friends of the Big Thompson, a coalition of people, organizations and businesses in support of retention of the county properties along the Big Thompson, said the plan may not work for all debated properties because group members want it kept not just for fishing access, but also to preserve riparian habitats.<br \/>\n\u0153This can&#8217;t be a one solution for all properties,\u009d he said.<br \/>\nFriends of the Big Thompson was formed in October to create a more consolidated voice and improve communication between proponents of retaining the properties, Graul said.<br \/>\nCounty staffers will continue to work with the Parks Advisory Board to evaluate the properties, Buffington said, adding that it takes time to make sure that the properties are dealt with in the right way the first time.<br \/>\n\u0153We think this process is a good one,\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publish Date: 1\/2\/2009 Larimer County works on compromise plan for land along Big Thompson River By Kathryn Dailey Loveland Reporter-Herald Drake resident Dallas Maurer considers himself an avid fisherman of the Big Thompson River, which flows just across the street from his house. Along the Big Thompson Canyon, from Loveland to Estes Park, Maurer says &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"anons"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/bow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}