Fishermen know the site as Buffalo Peaks Ranch, a possession of Aurora's water department, a place of public access and a point of concern where it involves the extended health of a river that suffered historic abuse, mostly from an invasion of cattle. Colorado Trout Unlimited aims to help. The conservation organization is hip-deep in a project designed to improve habitat on 3 1/2 miles of a stream whose fish-holding capacity has been diminished by variety of ills. A first phase, nearing completion with a price tag of $300,000, addresses a 1 1/2-mile reach immediately downstream from the Garo bridge. A second phase would complete the span downstream to the popular Tomahawk State Wildlife Area; a third involves a three- fourths-mile parcel above the bridge. 

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