MEMBER’S CORNER A C O M M U N I T Y O F P E O P L E W H O C A R E A B O U T WAT E R
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Our members advance awareness This issue we’re featuring Melinda Kassen, who joined WEco as an individual member after we launched Fresh Water News last year. “I think it’s important to have quality, unbiased information about water available both to the water community but also to the greater state of Colorado...all those millions.” Melinda is senior counsel at the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, which serves as the national voice for a coalition of 59 organizations dedicated to preserving opportunities for quality hunting and angling. Melinda supports TRCP in its work in D.C. and with a variety of public entities on policy issues ranging from Clean Water Act protections to Colorado River Basin water management. “We need to make sure money and policy can keep water in streams,” she says. Melinda hails from Ohio, but has made Colorado home since 1983. She has dedicated much of her career to Western water issues, and served as the Interbasin
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Compact Committee’s environmental representative from 2006–2018. “To the extent that WEco is figuring out how to broaden the tent of people who understand and care about water, that’s worth supporting.” We’re grateful to count Melinda among our dedicated members to ensure we can keep reporting on Colorado’s most pressing water issues!
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Number of original articles published in year one of Fresh Water News, which launched June 28, 2018
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