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Document 238 of 338.

April 24, 2000, Monday

SECTION: Editorial; Ed. Final; Pg. 44A

LENGTH: 899 words

HEADLINE: LETTERS PAGE

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CARA will help improve wildlife management

We are writing to express our appreciation of Gov. Bill Owens' support for a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives (HR 701), the Conservation and Reinvestment Act, or CARA. The National Wildlife Federation and Colorado Wildlife Federation have been working for more than 10 years to provide a mechanism to ensure consistent and permanent funding for vitally important wildlife and natural resource conservation programs, including funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which distributes conservation dollars to the states. We believe that this bill represents the best opportunity to achieve this.

Colorado, while blessed with many local and statewide open space conservation initiatives, continues to face challenges with respect to providing adequate conservation of wildlife and wild places, for people and wildlife to enjoy. The work of the governor and his staff to support CARA is commendable. The overwhelming support of Colorado's congressional delegation for CARA is indicative of those efforts.

A portion of the federal support from CARA will be allocated to non-game wildlife programs, which are now heavily supported by license fees. In conjunction with increasing license revenues and releasing the Colorado Division of Wildlife from TABOR constraints, which the Colorado Wildlife Federation and NWF also support, the CARA non-game funds would help form a comprehensive response to many of Colorado's pressing wildlife management problems.

Bryan Pritchett

Chair-elect

National Wildlife Federation

Michael P. Dowling, Chair

Colorado Wildlife Federation

Mayor overlooking qualified candidates

I think I've had enough of Mayor Wellington Webb telling everyone, by the way of the media, how he has no confidence in members of the Denver Police Department. I have been a member of the DPD for almost 27 years and I am proud to say that citizens can rest assured that they are being protected and served by the finest officers in this country.

If this mayor is telling me and the rest of the citizens that he has to go outside a 1,400-person department to find a competent individual to run it, that tells me he doesn't have a clue as to the qualifications of the individuals who are right here.

The mayor often talks about the "entrenched old guard." Well, this " entrenched old guard" has been protecting and serving the citizens of Denver for a long time, and I believe that the crime rate has gone down in the city.

There are problems in the Denver Police Department, but they originate in Webb's office and that of the manager of public safety, not in the office of the chief of police.

Sgt. Alan Miller

Westminster

Column is yet another practice in hypocrisy

Once again, Mike Rosen can't see the forest for the trees (April 14 column, "Microsoft found guilty of success"). He says that "To the consumer mass-market, Windows is plenty good enough."

What a hypocrite! Day after day, he slams various organizations and institutions, such as the public schools and federal government, for not being "the best" - when they are obviously "plenty good enough." His double standard for private enterprise negate his opinions.

His comment that "Microsoft is successful because it works - until something that works better comes along" is laughable. In reality, nothing better will ever come along while Bill Gates monopolizes the market.

One of many examples is when computer firms tried to sell some of their computers with operating systems other than Windows, Gates refused to allow them to sell any computers with Windows. If Windows is so great, why is Microsoft afraid of competition?

Joe McGloin

Sheridan

Teach kids English while in kindergarten

Bilingual education generates such debate that I feel free to contribute my two cents. But first I wish to point out that the problem can be divided into two elements: older children who arrive not speaking English and pre-school children. My suggestion is for the latter group; for older students I can only suggest my mother's method when she taught in frontier schools: compulsory, night school English classes.

For the pre-schoolers, my suggestion comes from a visit to the Rio Grande valley of south Texas, where there is a large population of Hispanics who speak very good English. A retired teacher told me that children are segregated at kindergarten and the non-English speakers spend their kindergarten year learning English. Then they are prepared to keep up when formal instruction begins in first grade.

Sherod A. Harris

Westminster

Elian would probably be better off in Cuba

Who says that Elian Gonzalez's life would be diminished by returning him to his father, except the politicians? He would go to a school where metal detectors aren't necessary for his safety, and where he can get excellent free health care or a free university education. His life would not be encumbered by scary TV or aggressive computer games. His parents wouldn't have to work two shifts a day to keep up.

If it were not for the U.S. government's outdated quarrel with Fidel Castro, and if we allowed food and medicine to enter the country, no one would have to flee those fabulous beaches and great mountains.

Susan Wildau

Boulder

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