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t <br /> d <br /> f <br /> 4r � ; <br /> • !r'G' � i. C it�. _ _ <br /> Colorado. A Greenbelt Foundation planning at every level of govern- nunciation of the entire greenbelt <br /> was formed which gathered con- ment,we may forget the importance concept. It may be that the time for <br /> siderable public interest, including of planning as an orderly way of the trail project had not vet arrived, <br /> a board of directors composed of reaching a goal. that not enough broad-based sup- <br /> influential local citizens. Ten years Another problem was mainte- port was in place.Certainly the sim- <br /> later, however, only a short, little- nance. With the migrations of the ple idea of public access to the river <br /> used section of trail was in place, late 1960s came transients who took had been buried in a plan that <br /> and the county-owned parkland up residence along the river. What turned out to be too vague and <br /> along the river was closed to the efforts the county made at law ambitious for the time. In any case, <br /> public. How had such a well- enforcement are no longer remem- people continued to ignore the riv- <br /> organized effort faded into a bad bered, but the result was a per er through the oil-shale boom years <br /> memory? One problem was failing manent closure of all the public when resources were available for <br /> to establish the greenbelt system open space.A final blow to the foun- many other public works projects. <br /> firmly in city and county master dation was its widely-publicized in- It was not until 1984 that another <br /> plans. tent to acquire a strip of parkland for attempt at establishing the Colorado <br /> Ineffective long-term planning miles along the river. As innocent River Trail was made. Mesa County <br /> for the entire region hurt trails as and logical as that idea may be, it applied for and received a grant for <br /> much as any fault of the Greenbelt shocked farmers, landon•ners, and trail construction through the state's <br /> Foundation. Todav, after the last anyone with a vague distrust of gov- Division of Parks and Outdoor Rec- <br /> decade's frenzy of planning and re- ernment into an emotional de- reation. However, in the deepening <br /> P&R/NOVEMBER 1987/29 <br />