Understanding floods could also be key to unlocking an instream flow protection strategy for the Crystal River that would claim a certain amount of spring runoff in high water years for the benefit of ...

Wilderness watersheds and wildfire risk. Murky legal territory around river access. Increasing immigration enforcement ...

Despite being a nonpartisan race where candidates’ party labels are not displayed on the ballot, the candidates have expressed opposing views on politicized issues such as a rise in school shootings, ...

The River District is pushing for co-management of the water rights with the CWCB, which would be a departure from the norm, as the CWCB has never shared management of an instream-flow water right ...

Upstream streamflows on par with normal Local streams are flowing at 66-110% of normal in the Roaring Fork watershed as of Oct. 19, while the Colorado River is running at 81% of average at Dotsero and ...

“There are some quite vulnerable systems in the Roaring Fork Valley — Snowmass being at the very top of that list — that really need some advance planning,” said a senior hydrologist with Wright Water ...

As the Trump administration carries out its promise to ramp up Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, recently ...

Across the Roaring Fork Valley, change is testing the systems and values that define our communities. Recent reporting from ...

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 ...

Lake Powell at Wahweap Marina as seen in December 2021. Dwindling streamflows and falling reservoir levels have made it more likely that what some experts call a Colorado River Compact “tripwire” will ...

Sketch by Lt. C. H. McCauley, Third U.S. Cavalry, of the Meeker tragedy at the White River Ute Indian Agency, Sept. 29 1879, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, showing soldiers and officials surveying the ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. Like a lot of his neighbors, John Sullivan looks down his Apple Tree Park street and across the ...