Sweetwater locals frustrated after meetings to plan new state park

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The 13 meetings over the past eight months between Sweetwater community members and the Forest Service and Colorado Parks and Wildlife were meant to hammer out a rough-draft plan for the proposed new state park at Sweetwater Lake. 

As the Forest Service prepares to enter a formal environmental review of what could happen at Sweetwater Lake in Garfield County, there is no plan and little agreement. There is a lot of frustration. 

“We have a choice. We are either going to manage it before everyone comes or we are going to manage it after the chaos,” White…