Conservation summit: overdue debate It's a notion whose time has come, this Colorado Conservation Summit that begins Monday at Keystone Conference Center. Of course, it also might be presumed a decade overdue, but such is the nature of America's current infatuation with management by crisis. In any case, this diverse gathering represents our state's determination to join a movement that may offer outdoorsmen a last, best hope to protect wildlife habitat so important both to our sporting interests and to what we cherish as the Colorado way of life. This flirtation between hunter/fishers and environmentalists, an off- and-on affair, at last has progressed to the hand-holding stage. Where it develops from here, at least in this neck of the woods, depends a great deal on the bonding that occurs next week. At the root of the initiative is the recognition, finally, that those who pursue fish and game have so much more in common with conservationists than separates them. It's an awareness born of hard lessons, bitter defeats and the reality that if something isn't done soon, many things very precious will be lost....