By Shannon Lukens.

 

Josh Veenstra will be in Washington DC next week, starting Feb. 26. The owner of Good Vibes River Gear in Craig is attending meetings for the American Rivers Southwest Council. He says he is representing Northwest Colorado and the importance of clean water, and the future of our water rights for the Colorado River Basin.

“It’s to help protect rivers and to keep water in the river and the importance of clean water. We are depending on a water system basin for 100 million people and we are at the headwaters of the most important part of that system.”

Steamboat Springs is also represented on the Southwest Council for American Rivers. Those on the council are Katey Greene, Nick Kelley, Ben Kurtz, and Deirdre Macnab.

The American Rivers website says, “Life depends on rivers. It’s not just that rivers make our lives better. We can’t survive without them.”

American Rivers also commissioned the documentary called, “Craig, America.”

 

SOUTHWEST RIVER COUNCIL MEMBERS

Matt Moseley (Co-Chair)
Boulder, CO

Jim Youssef (Co-Chair)
Durango, CO

Tom Barney
Durango, CO

Jordana Barrack
Fort Collins, CO

Carrie Besnette Hauser
Glenwood Springs, CO

Mike Boyd
Boulder, CO

Nat Cobb
Los Ranchos, NM

Marianne Eppig 
Boulder, CO

Katey Greene
Steamboat Springs, CO

Ed Kabotie
Santa Clara Pueblo, NM/Second Mesa, AZ

Nick Kelley
Steamboat Springs, CO

Ben Kurtz
Steamboat Springs, CO

Patty Lynch
Denver, CO

Deirdre Macnab
Steamboat Springs, CO

Bob McDermott
Cherry Hill Village, CO

Gibson Mckay
Phoenix, AZ

Kim Milligan
Durango, CO

David Parker
Aspen, CO

Fred Owen Phillips
Ouray, CO

Roy Romer
Denver, CO

Mike Ryan
Fort Collins, CO

Gregg Somermeyer
Durango, CO

Josh Veenstra
Craig, CO