Water managers from the seven states that share the Colorado River have blown a deadline given to them by the federal ...

A “peaking” instream-flow water right would keep in the stream all of the water not claimed by someone else during years with high spring runoff, thereby maintaining these periodic floods, which are ...

Wilderness watersheds and wildfire risk. Murky legal territory around river access. Increasing immigration enforcement netting more people without criminal records. In this edition of The Roundup, we ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. The results of water quality testing on Lincoln Creek show that the waterway is toxic to fish and that ...

The penstocks and main building at the Shoshone hydropower plant, which is owned by Xcel Energy and uses water diverted from the Colorado River to produce electricity. The River District and Front ...

The site where Ute Water plans to build Owens Creek Reservoir at 8,200 feet on the Grand Mesa was snow covered by mid-November. The Western Slope’s largest domestic water supplier has conditional ...

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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 ...

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: ...

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Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. As a shy and bearded young architecture student at the University of Southern California in the spring ...

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 ...