 The Issues
According to Christo's own website, the project will be a 3-year disruption
during construction and removal, requiring lane closures and more. This
is not simply the 2-week "inconvenience" as pitched to the media,
politicians, and the permitting agencies.
Other issues which have not been resolved are:
- Disruption of wildlife and interference with their watering, feeding,
breeding, etc.
- Destruction of the environment.
- Police, Fire and Ambulance response impeded due to congestion/multiple
vehicle accidents.
- Inability of thousands of local residents to work or to obtain food,
potable water, mail, medical and veterinary care.
- Disruption of our usual tourist and local recreation opportunities.
- Negative economic impacts to those whose living depends on traversing
the canyon.
- Greatly increased danger for multiple casualty accidents due to people
gawking, slowing, stopping, photographing the project.
- Garbage and human waste left by crowds of onlookers.
See photo documentation of some of these issues, plus a sample
of the destruction from one of Christo's previous projects.
For more information on these and even more issues, contact
us and we will send you a complete treatise of the problems this project
will cause.
 How to find out more
View ROAR's 2009 presentation to Front Range Regional Advisory Council
Check our News and Events and Docs
& Pics pages.
Read our Blog
for status, announcements, upcoming events, and more.
Visit Christo's
website to see his proposed design and calendar for the project.
Then read our Point-by-Point
analysis. (MS Word Document)
Presentation to
the Citizens Task Force, July 18, 2006. (MS Word Document)
How to get involved
Become involved in ROAR's efforts to stop this destructive project
in the Arkansas River's Bighorn Sheep Canyon:
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