River as teacher: The formation of watersheds, rocks and stewards of the land
“We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future...
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Category: Water
As above, so below: Will woes on the Colorado River come to roost on the Arkansas?
The playground that flows through Chaffee County delivered the goods this summer, with fat waves...
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Chaffee BoCC Grapples with the Expanded Requests to Use Heritage Water Subdivision Exemptions and Variances
Over the past two weeks of Chaffee Board of County Commissioner (BoCC) meetings, and for the past...
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Drought in the West: Governors Join Forces to Ask for Federal Declaration as First-ever Tier One Water Shortage Declared for the Colorado River
It’s a one-two punch. Just as a bipartisan group of Western governors has urged the federal...
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Water Commitments Come Due in the West
The ‘Chickens are Coming Home to Roost’, as the first major water calls are made on...
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Chaffee Receives Legal Complaint from Unbottle & Protect Chaffee Water
Late on Friday afternoon, July 16, the consumer protest organization calling itself Unbottle &...
Read MoreGuest Opinion: Combating the Megadrought with ‘Soil for Water’
The National Center for Appropriate Technology’s Soil for Water Project which began in Texas is expanding beyond Texas this summer into Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Mississippi, Montana, and Virginia. It...
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Gov. Polis Signs Bills to Address Climate Change, New Energy Sources and Drought Resilience Programs
This month has been bill-signing season for Colorado Governor Jared Polis, after a frantic and...
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“America the Beautiful” Initiative Would Conserve 30 Percent of U.S. Lands and Waters by 2030
Thursday morning, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released a statement welcoming a new...
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Drought and snowpack: recent cold and snow are just what April needs
Nobody dares to complain too loudly about the cold snap and the past week of snow because there...
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Colorado waters are free of invasive mussels, but boat inspections and decontamination hit record highs
Invasive species may be hitching a ride on boats arriving in Colorado. Colorado’s lakes and...
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CDOT Warns of More Mountain Snows this week, Dangerous Driving Conditions
The snowstorm that hit a large section of the Central Colorado Rockies has a twin apparently...
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