1 min read
Dolores River watershed From The Colorado Springs Gazette (Carol McKinley): water scarcity driven by drastic climate-change along the Dolores River
1 min read
From The High Country News [November 23, 2021] (Sarah Tory): Every summer in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, a long, high desert valley ringed by
1 min read
From The Colorado Sun (Michael Booth): The Uncompahgre may have a legal guardian in its future after a town vote, though critics of “rights of
1 min read
Ouray County Water Users Association wants to build Ram’s Horn Reservoir on the upper reach of Cow Creek, shown here. Ouray County has requested
1 min read
Gross Reservoir. Photo: Brent Gardner-Smith/Aspen Journalism From The Denver Post (Conrad Swanson): The utility will pay millions to mitigate
18 min read
Cinnamon Teal by NPS Patrick Myers. From the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council (Zaylah Pearson-Good): Introduction Each spring and fall, thousands of
2 min read
New Mexico Drought Monitor April 20, 2021. From The New Mexico Political Report (Hannah Grover): As much of New Mexico faces exceptional drought
5 min read
Aerial view of Lake Powell on the Colorado River along the Arizona-Utah border. AP Photo/John Antczak Robert Glennon, University of
6 min read
Two men fish the Eagle River just above its confluence with the Colorado River in Dotsero. Homestake Partners released 1,667 acre-feet of water down
3 min read
Rio Grande upstream near Montano, NM. Photo credit: USBR Here’s the release from the Bureau of Reclamation (Mary Carlson): The Bureau of
3 min read
From Writers on the Range (Denise Fort): Santa Fe, New Mexico, once was sustained by the waters of the Santa Fe River, which begins in the high
2 min read
Dolores River snowpackApril 16, 2021 via the NRCS. From The Cortez Journal (Jim Mimiaga): Below-average snowpack and ongoing drought will hurt flows
1 min read
John F. Kennedy at Commemoration of Fryingpan Arkansas Project in Pueblo, circa 1962. Here’s the release from the Southeastern Colorado Water
3 min read
The Roaring Fork River near Mill Street in Aspen in June 2020. An intergovernmental agreement between Pitkin County and the City of Aurora aims to
1 min read
The outflow at the bottom of Navajo Dam in New Mexico. Photo: Brent Gardner-Smith/Aspen Journalism From email from Reclamation (Susan Novak