The Forest Service and their partners have been working on recovery since the fires stopped burning. Their latest project: restoring fish habitats with Trout Unlimited.
Environment
Posted inClimate
Flying insects are at risk as they try to escape climate change by moving to higher elevations, Colorado study finds
Their loss would have catastrophic effects on food supply and human survival, say researchers at CU Denver and Georgia Tech
Posted inWater
After a wet water year, can Colorado hope for a repeat? Not quite, experts say.
The 2023 water year was one of the wettest periods in over a century. “It was a season of abundance,” one reservoir manager said.
Posted inBusiness
There’s been a surge of abandoned oil and gas wells in Colorado over the past 90 days
The rise in orphan wells is being fed by smaller operators who no longer find it economical to operate in Colorado and the continued discovery of old wells, sometimes by developers looking to build houses on former oil and gas sites
Posted inEnvironment
Crayfish have invaded Lake Granby, the species’ first dangerous foray into the Colorado River system
One fish, two fish, good fish, crayfish. The rusty version of the species eats everything in sight.
Posted inWater
Colorado River officials extend stumbling program that pays farmers, ranchers to use less water
The 2023 program spent more and saved less water than in the past, but officials say there’s more that can be learned about water conservation in the next round.
Posted inEnvironment
Colorado air commission approves smokestack rules opponents call “unjust” and “pay-to-play”
Late-night vote sets greenhouse gas and other pollutant limits, but also allows 18 major corporations to buy credits or pay into compensation fund
Posted inOutdoors
Measuring methane from leaky old mines? OK. Flaring the gas to keep it out of the atmosphere? That’s “a double-edged sword.”
An intractable question is simmering in the Crystal River Valley. Is burning off huge amounts of potent greenhouse gas emissions worth backtracking on 30 years of coal mine restoration?
Posted inEnvironment
What’s a food forest? Metro Denver already has 19 of them.
Volunteers and Denver Urban Gardens turn a neglected city-owned lot into an oasis of edible plants and wildlife habitat
Posted inEnvironment
Feds give Xcel $70 million for innovative clean energy storage in Colorado and Minnesota
The iron-air battery systems are needed to back up a grid increasingly powered by solar and wind