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Off-duty rafting guide Kimberly Appelson was ejected from a boat on Colorado’s Arkansas River on July 11, and is presumed dead. In an effort the find the body, the river level will be lowered next week to permit better access to a hazard where they suspect her body to be lodged. http://www.summitdaily.com http://thenewsasithappens.com Ryan Snodgrass of Arkansas Valley Adventures Rafting Company saved a 13-year-old girl who had fallen out of his raft, and was charged with “obstructing government operations” because he did not heed a directive by government officials to stay out of the water. Snodgrass was searching for the missing girl for half an hour. The local [...] Two rafting outfitters have agreed to certain limits to their activities on the stretch of the Taylor River owned by Jackson-Shaw of Texas. This includes reducing rafting activities when rafting could damage the bottom of the river. denverpost.com Attempts to guarantee rafting outfitters access to navigable rivers have died in state government. The bill was HB 10-1188 (Clarify River Outfitter Navigation Right). Twenty ballot initiatives were ready to launch, presaging an election day show-down. But Jackson-Shaw, new owner of the contested two-mile stretch of river, says it will continue mediation with Scenic River [...] Private landowners, water experts, and private boaters see a lot in House Bill 1188 that they don’t like. The sponsor, Sen. Mary Hodge, D-Brighton, thinks that if she can get the bill through the Senate Judiciary Committee, it will make it through the full Senate. It has already passed the House 40-25. durangoherald.com The bill did make [...] The number of rafting trips in West Virginia dropped almost 9% in 2009 vs. 2008, according to the state Division of Natural Resources. The industry saw a high-point in 1995, with 257,446 visitors, but has dropped ever since. phillyburbs.com Bucking the trend, Adventures on the Gorge, a resort that features Mountain River Adventures, Rivermen, and Class VI [...] To develop oil shale, you need water, and Shell Oil was trying to gain some water rights on the Yampa. The conditional water right would have given shell 375 cubic feet per second, which they would have pumped into a reservoir holding up to 45,000 acre feet. The Yampa is Colorado’s last free-flowing river, and [...] The Colorado Springs Gazette has published an editorial against House Bill 1188, claiming that it is a violation of property rights, and a subsidy to the rafting industry. The opinion piece cites a Colorado Supreme Court ruling, and says that “Responsible commercial outfitters… have negotiated arrangements with landowners.” In short, the law “take(s) from the [...] Nonresident spending in Montana dropped around 30% in the third quarter of 2009, according to a study by the University of Montana. Outfitted trips were particularly affected, according to Norma Nickerson of the UM Institute of Tourism & Recreation Research. People scaled back, such as doing half-day trips instead of full-day or multi-day excursions. In 2009, commercial users of the Arkansas River contributed about $60 million to the Colorado economy, says the Colorado River Outfitters Association. This was the largest part of the $142 million in total commercial river use in Colorado. Colorado-Glenwood and Clear Creek were the next largest rivers in terms of commercial rafting activity. Commercial rafting [...]
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