Governor John Hickenlooper is apparently going to meet with Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman and Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to discuss eco-tourism and economic development. From a Hickenlooper press release:
Gov. John Hickenlooper will meet with Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman and Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback on Friday, March 23, to discuss common efforts and issues related to eco-tourism and economic development. The three governors will meet in Wood River, Neb….
…According to statistics gathered by the Colorado Tourism Office in 2010, Colorado attracted 51.6 million visitors made up by overnight leisure travelers and day trips. Visitors to Colorado spent $14.6 billion in 2010, an 8.4 percent increase over 2009. The tourism industry supports nearly 137,000 jobs and generates $750 million in local and state tax revenues, saving every Colorado household $395 in taxes they would have otherwise paid to maintain the same services.
In addition to discussing tourism efforts, the governors will view the world-renowned migration of the sandhill cranes, a significant eco-tourism attraction in Nebraska.
This sounds absolutely thrilling. Talk about the perks of being Governor, eh?
We can understand discussing eco-tourism in Colorado, but we’d imagine the discussion starts to slow down once Nebraska and Kansas start talking. After all, only so many people will be interested in taking the family to Prairie Dog Town.
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National natural treasures that attract tourists, artists, the film industry, etc. can be forever as long as we don’t screw them up. Let’s hope this reminds them.
I have been to Wood River, Nebraska, a number of times, delivering ice as part of a job I had for three summers. I can still remember the smell of the gas station/food mart/bait shop, etc. to which we delivered ice. Enjoy the ambiance Gov. Hickenlooper. I bet they will discuss the cfs flow in the Platte too.
the glorious 1200’s
a pope’s dream
where the sunflowers not weed is smoked
where men are men and sheep are[edited- that is a joke about Wyoming]
where plowing the prairie means just that
where Democrats go to [edited – that is a joke that is about Utah]
Ask not what John Hickenlooper can do for you ask what you can do for John Hickenlooper?
The Governor by caving in to the oil and gas industry may cost his party a few seats.
sheeesh, give a guy a break? Take a little shot of CleanStim ™ and never live it down.
A lot of the state is flat, you know? Learn a lot as governor.
community to feature an incumbent Republican Senator today on a panel to discuss a wide range of environmental issues? Oh, those tree-hugging Republicans . . .
Don’t miss it!
But seriously, Greensburg Kansas is quite a different story. After getting 95% wiped off the map from a Category 5 tornado in 2007, they have rebuilt their town to be completely LEED certified. CU Denver School of Architecture helped with several energy-efficient home and building designs.
Pretty forward-thinking for a little farming community. But then, many farmers have deep respect for the land that sustains them and the rest of us cityslickers.
I’ve been to Prairie Dog Town. I have seen live rattlesnakes pet the baby pig. I have seen the five-legged steer and the six-legged calf. And I purchased a fine specimen of turd bird art. It was frackin’ awesome!
Of course, I was born and raised in Kansas.
neither of these two states have the natural treasures to begin to compare to Colorado.
But, sometimes you have to get your fat ass out of the car, and your car off the interstate, before you entirely write off any state.
Show me another state that has a 300-mile stretch of unspoiled, natural, native, undammed river.
Or, consider . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N…
There’s a lot about my home state that’s not for shit, but natural beauty of immense ecological significance is not one of those. But, I guess if you’re the least bit concerned about the importance of pristine ecologies, you’d already know some, or all, of this. And, you’d probably also realize that ecology is not just limited to sites that lie at over 10,000 feet in elevation.
Anyone care to hear about Southeast Nebraska’s remaining unique tall grass prairies? Anyone hear of Arbor Day; do you know it’s connection to Nebraska and the modern-day ecology movement?
Now Kansas, that’s another story altogether . . . ever drive across I-70? What a completely worthless state . . . personally, I don’t even consider it worth my while to waste a piss on that dry, dusty, wind-blown, featureless, god-forsaken wasteland.
… kinda picked up a potent whiff of CO chauvinism in the tourism summit post and think Diogenesdemar dug up some strong (and lengthy) wiki-info.
Next time you make a drive across the great plains to points-east think about all the birds moving from north to south as part of a completely different continental migration. A NE prarie pothole to us is just another Sapp Bros truck-stop to them.
… Bird watchers and hunters have some pretty deep pockets and kudos to these plains states for doing what they can to drum up the business.
I know it began in Lincoln
with this one.
The prairie has abundant natural beauty from the grasslands to the cranes.
Admittedly Hickenlooper is never going to embrace a new direction like being a global renewable energy Mecca. He doesn’t have the vision of Ritter but that said at least he is trying to promote tourism and put a smiley eco-face on it.
Silly diss of the guv Pols.
Hahahaha stop it you’re killing me.