After owning nearly all 71 miles of the High Line Canal for one hundred years, Denver Water is giving up two-thirds of the historic waterway-turned-recreational trail to Arapahoe County. Denver Water and Arapahoe County officials announced the transfer of 45 miles of the canal during a press conference on Thursday, June 20, at the Little Dry Creek Trail, near the High Line Canal Conservancy offices in Centennial. Tom Roode, chief operations and maintenance officer at Denver Water, tells Westword that Arapahoe County is better suited to steward the High Line Canal and its trail, which attracts more than a million visitors per year…