Ecological restoration could be the new outdoor recreation

KREMMLING, CO - AUGUST 31: Rancher Paul Bruchez helped build this man-made riffle seen below in a portion of the Upper Colorado River that meanders through his family脮s ranch in Kremmling, Colorado on August 31, 2021 in Denver, Colorado. Bruchez worked with the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), and others, to create man-made riffles in three areas in the Colorado River. Riffles are shallower, faster moving sections of a stream where rocks break the water surface. Riffles are important to fish habitat because as water rushes over the rocks it adds oxygen to the water. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post) — KREMMLING, CO – AUGUST 31: Rancher Paul Bruchez helped build this man-made riffle seen below in a portion of the Upper Colorado River that meanders through his family脮s ranch in Kremmling, Colorado on August 31, 2021 in Denver, Colorado. Bruchez worked with the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), and others, to create man-made riffles in three areas in the Colorado River. Riffles are shallower, faster moving sections of a stream where rocks break the water surface. Riffles are important to fish habitat because as water rushes over the rocks it adds oxygen to the water. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

By Rick Knight | Writers on the Range

PUBLISHED: June 28, 2023 at 6:01 AM MDT | UPDATED: June 29, 2023 at 10:52 AM MDT

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Driving back to Colorado State University with a van full of students after a day of working to heal some beat-up land north of Fort Collins, I wondered: Could ecological restoration be a new form of outdoor recreation?

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