For lawmakers, an afternoon float on the Colorado River reignites an age-old question: Who gets access to the state’s streams?

For lawmakers, an afternoon float on the Colorado River reignites an age-old question: Who gets access to the state’s streams?

Sporting sandals, swim shorts and baseball caps — and hopefully plenty of sunscreen — a cohort of state lawmakers hopped aboard several rafts on a hot June day to talk policy as they floated the Colorado River.  Splashing their way downstream from Kremmling, less than 60 miles from the river’s headwaters in Rocky Mountain National Park, the group of roughly a dozen politicians found themselves in a quintessential setting for their wide-ranging c…