Commissioners Mull How to Hold In-person Public Hearings While Maintaining Social Distancing
When the law calls for public hearings and the topic is controversial, how can that be done safely...
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Category: Water Talks
Senate Passes Historic Public Lands Bill, Approval Moves to House
Bipartisan legislation to fix up national parks and fully fund efforts to acquire and protect...
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Greg Felt Appointed to Colorado Water Conservation Board
“What has been happening is a recognition and an understanding that these upper basins of our major river systems of the state are where the big, forested watersheds are. A lot of those are like ours – not in the best of health and at risk for wildfire. We need to focus more attention on those challenges, as we’ve done through the Envision process here.”
Greg Felt
Just appointed to the Colorado Water Conservation Board
Nestlé Water public hearing re-set for April, 2020
In a sign that perhaps Nestlé Water might not find its Chaffee County 1041 permit renewal quite as...
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Final tallies show Colorado voters approve Prop DD
Vote counts on election night were too close to call for Proposition DD, which proposed to place a...
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Understanding the statewide election ballot measure: Proposition DD
The upcoming 2019 November election will see voters weighing in on two statewide ballot issues:...
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Water Talks: Colorado Water Rights as Private Property Rights
The misreading of Section 5, Article 16 of the Colorado Constitution has led many citizens to...
Read MoreLetter to the Editor: Water belongs to all of us
“The water of every natural stream is declared to be the property of the public.” That text is from Article 16, Section 5 of the Colorado Constitution. In the article by Terry Scanga, general manager of the Upper Arkansas Water...
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Colorado snow pack, plenty of moisture bodes well for the summer season
It’s looking like Arkansas Valley residents can expect a summer with plenty of moisture. Terry...
Read MoreCentral Colorado Conservancy featuring award-winning environmental journalist presenting beaver ecology
The Central Colorado Conservancy (CCC) will hold a special lecture on beaver biology and ecology at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 11, at the Salida Steam Plant Theater. Ben Goldfarb. a graduate of Yale’s School of Forestry and...
Read MoreCurrent and future challenges to Upper Arkansas Basin Water supplies
Most discussions involving water supply or quality require a good examination of the historical perspective of water development. For this reason, understanding the system by which water is and has been allocated in Colorado...
Read MoreMessy streams and other conservation strategies
Michael Blazewicz of Round River Design is presenting a lecture at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, at the Scout Hut in Riverside Park in Salida, on the benefits of what he calls “messy” streams. It’s the first of...
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