The Homestake Creek wetlands are pictured above. A potential reservoir planned for Colorado Springs and Aurora could decimate this fragile and ancient ecosystem known as a “fen.” | JOHN FIELDER COURTESY PHOTO
RBC IIt was 1952 when the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs first started gobbling up water rights in a remote, high mountain valley on the state’s Western Slope. The valley is called Homestake, and now, those same cities want even more…