Thornton home and lawn 2019. Photo credit: Brent Gardner-Smith/Aspen Journalism Click the link to read the opinion piece on the Colorado Newsline website (Sammy Herdman): Over the course of the nex…

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If the conservation easement is finalized, it will end irrigation on 1,800 acres to protect groundwater levels.

Click the link to read the paper from the Ecological Society of America (Emily Fairfax, Andrew Whittle). Here’s the abstract: Beaver dams are gaining popularity as a low-tech, low-cost strate…

West snowpack basin-filled map January 1, 2023 via the NRCS. Colorado snowpack basin-filled map January 1, 2023 via the NRCS.

Conservationists are working to preserve eastern Montana’s intact prairie and return its assemblage of native wildlife.

I learned that Greg Hobbs had passed from an email sent out yesterday by Water Education Colorado (reproduced below). Greg was a friend of Coyote Gulch and I will always be grateful for his encoura…

WESTERN WATER Q&A: Tanya Trujillo brings two decades of experience on Colorado River issues as she takes on the challenges of a river basin stressed by climate change

Colorado Snowpack basin-filled map December 31, 2022 via the NRCS. West SNOTEL snowpack basin-filled map December 30, 2022 via the NRCS.

Photo shows the Colorado River flanked by fall colors east of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Photo credit: USBR Click the link to read the article on the Steamboat Pilot & Today website (Sean Nayl…

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The effort to stop a massive mine project in Bristol Bay, Alaska, has been a decades-long fight for the region’s Indigenous People. Five tribal leaders share their experiences.

Douglas County officials said Tuesday they would not use their COVID-relief funding to help finance a controversial $400 million-plus proposal to export farm water from the San Luis Valley to their...

Colorado’s Court of Appeals has cleared the way for 80-year-old fisherman Roger Hill to make his case for a public right to fish on his favorite stretch of the Arkansas River as it flows down from …

Agriculture is the main economic venture on CRIT’s reservation, where a range of crops like alfalfa, cotton and sorghum thrive in the rich soil along the banks of the Colorado River. (Source:…

A bipartisan effort at the Colorado Capitol would launch a statewide turf replacement program, which would pay homeowners, business owners to replace their non-native, ornamental lawns with plants …

As Colorado River Basin states prove unable to reach a consensus in reducing their water consumption, the U.S. Department of the Interior is investigating an option that defies the Law of the River.

Tribes were excluded from compact negotiations 100 years ago. What if they had shown up anyway?

Rio Grande National Forest’s only native trout needs help. Beavers are the answer.

Dear friends and colleagues, We are reaching out to ask for your help in supp… Taylor Winchell needs your support for Support Laurna's Journey to Recovery

Here’s the release from Colorado State University: Reagan Waskom, director of the Colorado Water Center, is retiring after over 30 years of service with Colorado State University. Waskom is a…

It took 18 months for Silas Malers, 12, to build a massive 8 foot by 8 foot LEGO model representing the Hydrologic Cycle and how humans and the environment are affecting it along the way.

For young Navajo people, the lack of water makes it more difficult to return to the Navajo Nation to make a permanent home.

There’s a better than 50 percent chance Arizona will get less water from the Colorado River by 2020.

Click the link to read the article on The National Law Review website (Kian Hudson): Department of Interior v. Navajo Nation confronts the Court with a complicated case involving the extent of the …

Experts say the averted crisis at Dove Creek is a harbinger of what’s to come as water becomes a disappearing commodity across the West.

In the San Luis Valley, the communal and egalitarian resource offers a way of life.

In Las Vegas, a war on turf has helped reduce water use. In Arizona, experts say urban cutbacks may be needed as part of a wider plan.

From The New York Times (Henry Fountain): Here at 12,000 feet on the Continental Divide, only vestiges of the winter snowpack remain, scattered white patches that have yet to melt and feed the uppe…

From Colorado Public Radio (Michael Elizabeth Sakas): Leaders of 20 Tribes in the Colorado River basin signed a letter to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, urging for inclusion in the upcoming…