Michael Repucci, a Founding Partner of Johnson & Repucci LLP of Boulder, was recently awarded the 2012 River Conservationist Award by Trout Unlimited’s Colorado Headwaters Chapter as a result of his longstanding efforts to preserve and protect Grand County’s cold water fisheries, especially the Fraser River and Ranch Creek near Winter Park. Repucci is part of a group of concerned land and business owners in the Fraser River basin attempting to negotiate appropriate mitigation requirements with Denver Water to offset expected impacts to stream biology and morphology due to Denver Water’s planned increased East Slope water diversions during critical springtime runoff and summertime low flow periods.