Northern Water says river levels still too high to quantify full damage to project meant to restore fish and wildlife.
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Colorado biologists hope their Poudre River fish restocking efforts don’t go up in smoke
Volunteers hope planting tiny fish in a 40-mile stretch of the river fouled by fire and mud will restore the Poudre River’s status as one of the best fisheries in Colorado
Posted inEnvironment
Colorado’s official state fish makes second comeback after previously thought extinct
A complex state effort announces first success restoring the breeding population of greenback cutthroat trout in a historic spot.
Posted inEnvironment
Colorado adds new water quality protections for South Platte, Clear Creek in sharp reversal
Environmental advocates cheer overturn of controversial 2020 decision that wrote off the urban waters as too polluted for saving
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Carman: One small step will save a mile of the Colorado River. A giant leap is needed to save the rest.
It was a predictably goofy photo op last week amid the heavy machinery poised to rip into the area around the Windy Gap reservoir in Grand County to save a stretch of moribund Colorado River. Sen. Michael Bennet was there along with his Republican challenger, Joe O’Dea, and dozens of smiling county commissioners, Trout Unlimited […]
Posted inClimate, Environment, News, Water
It took 10 years to plan a channel around a Colorado River reservoir. Collaboration went well, but urgency was lacking.
GRANBY — Old-timers around here talk about how they used to need to stop after a springtime drive through Byers Canyon to clean all the bugs out of their radiators. So when longtime angler Bud Isaacs noticed the absence of a stonefly hatch on his favorite stretch of the Colorado River below the 445-acre Windy […]
Posted inEnergy
A project looking to move water from Utah to Colorado’s Front Range gets new funding, partner
Water Horse Resources CEO Aaron Million is still eyeing a Green River pipeline, which critics dismiss as a “silly idea”
Posted inEnvironment
Colorado school children raised trout. The state had to kill a lot of the “poor buggers” for testing.
But an innovative solution is helping Trout in the Classroom cut down the number of fish involved in the fatal testing process.
Posted inNews, Outdoors
Plan to reconnect the Colorado River for the first time since 1985 gets major donation
A brand new stretch of the Colorado River is closer to reality in Grand County. A $2 million donation by PepsiCo has pushed a consortium led by Trout Unlimited closer to its $27.1 million plan to build a 1-mile channel around the Windy Gap Reservoir, which has blocked fish passage and separated the river since […]
Posted inEnvironment, News, Water
Advocacy groups force Colorado water quality commission to consider upgrades for urban streams
The state Water Quality Control Commission reversed itself this week and agreed to consider tougher protections for urban streams, another sign of activists deploying recent environmental justice laws in safeguarding local water, land and air. The commission Monday unanimously accepted demands in a petition from a coalition of conservation and advocacy groups that they revisit […]