Valley residents say they don’t have more water to lose, and officials hope the new review board will help protect local economies and water resources.
Rio Grande River
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A one-of-a-kind tribal agreement will help endangered fish in the Colorado River Basin
Jicarilla Apache Nation’s lease agreement with New Mexico is a first for the state and will help endangered fish in the San Juan River
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Change urgently needed to ensure people and wildlife have access to water in the Upper Rio Grande Basin, scientists say
There isn’t enough water to sustain the needs of people and wildlife while maintaining a healthy river ecosystem, according to a recent assessment
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International water researcher highlights Colorado Basin’s “disappearing” groundwater
Satellite data shows groundwater has dropped faster across the Colorado River Basin than reservoir levels at Lake Powell and Lake Mead
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Colorado, Western states propose management deal over beleaguered Rio Grande
Details have not been released, but federal government and irrigation districts that depend on Rio Grande are objecting to states’ deal
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Colorado water officials oppose New Mexico lawmakers’ push for federal action on the Rio Grande
Legislation proposed by New Mexico politicians eyes federal workgroup for Rio Grande
Posted inClimate, Environment, News, Outdoors, Wildfire
Priceless seeds, sprouts in New Mexico a key to post-fire future in the West
By Susan Montoya Bryan, The Associated Press A New Mexico facility where researchers work to restore forests devastated by fires faced an almost cruelly ironic threat: The largest wildfire burning in the U.S. was fast approaching. Owen Burney and his team knew they had to save what they could. Atop their list was a priceless […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: The simple, big reason Colorado’s rivers are drying up
Icy beads of water are beginning to form and flow off the San Juan Mountains in southern Colorado. As the droplets merge into tiny trickles, they are pulled on vast journeys to the rivers who carry them to the sea. Along Colorado’s Continental Divide, water droplets may embark on a nearly 1,900-mile journey down the […]
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Colorado ranchers are selling off cattle to survive another year of dried-up grass and parched soil
Janie VanWinkle can hear it in the discontented way her cows call to their calves, the way the dried grass crunches into powder under her boots. It’s the sound of drought. The landscape where her cows graze in Grand Junction doesn’t have a green tint this spring. It’s gray and brown, ugly and parched. “And […]
Posted inArts, Coloradans, COVID, Culture, Environment
In southwest Colorado, high tech plays in the mud to produce ecologically sound architecture — and art
In the middle of Colorado’s San Luis Valley, a progressive architecture and design firm is proving that everything old is new again. Also, that the future is mud. Combining indigenous mud-based building materials with 21st century robotics, California-based Rael San Fratello created the oddly beautiful structures of “Casa Covida,” their “proto-architectures” that connect high- and […]