Note to Christo: Don’t Start Hanging the Fabric Yet

"The $50 million project by the artist Christo, who hopes to drape nearly six miles of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado with suspended bank-to-bank fabric, received approval from federal land managers late last year. But on Wednesday, a new battlefield emerged in law and local politics: in Denver, opponents filed a federal lawsuit aiming to block construction, which Christo had hoped to begin this summer. The suit argues that land managers violated federal law in approving the plan and gauging its environmental impacts."
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