The CWCB’s decision was a blow to Front Range water providers, who objected to the River District’s having a say over how to manage the water rights, even though they supported the overall goal of ...
Local rivers running below normal Local streams are flowing at 58-94% of normal in the Roaring Fork watershed as of Nov. 19, while the Colorado River is running at 84% of average at Dotsero and 69% ...
As generous and readily available as local land grants were, the Roaring Fork Valley was small potatoes compared with enormous public land grants that mark vast Western landscapes today and could ...
And, in case you missed it before casting your ballot, Eleanor Bennett, reporting for our joint Social Justice Desk with ...
As miners followed silver veins into the earth, large caverns, or stopes, were opened and stabilized by post-and-beam frameworks processed at Aspen sawmills from wood harvested from clearcut local ...
Conscience Bay Company President Eli Feldman stands at a headgate on the Alfalfa Ditch near Cedaredge. Feldman, whose company owns Harts Basin Ranch and irrigates with water from the ditch, has been ...
A car departs the parking area outside the Geo ICE Detention Center in Aurora on Oct. 7. All 37 people arrested by ICE agents this year between Jan. 20 and July 28 in Pitkin, Eagle and Garfield ...
CPW sampling on the Colorado River found zebra mussel veligers. The river is now considered “positive” for zebra mussels from its confluence with the Roaring Fork River to the Utah state line. Credit: ...
From left, J.B. Hamby, chair of the Colorado River Board of California, Tom Buschatzke, Arizona Department of Water Resources; Becky Mitchell, Colorado representative to the Upper Colorado River ...
Wyoming rancher Freddie Botur walking across rocks that form the diversion structure at his headgate on Cottonwood Creek, a tributary of the Green River. Botur was paid to let water flow past these ...
Riparian ecologists David Cooper, left, and David Merritt take stock of the tree root crowns collected from the banks of the Crystal River the last week in October. They will take the trunks back to ...
Cattails at the edge of a manmade pond that is part of the Snowmass wetlands will be dredged and less than 1/10th of an acre will be filled in to accommodate a reoriented rodeo grounds in Snowmass ...