Conservation

Aspen’s new water resource plan outlines the strategy for creating emergency storage to address threats to existing supplies.

Snowpack in Colorado is melting earlier than expected due to an increase in dust storm severity.

Chuck Cullom discusses the Upper Basin's five-point plan, water cut-offs and who IS responsible for water losses.

“We’re entering beaver land!” Zanna Stutz yelled joyfully. Stepping lightly over slick, wobbly mud and splashing through ankle-deep water, she approached a small dam created by nature’s engineers. A Woodhouse toad...

The head of the Colorado River District says any funding must be channeled through the Colorado Water Conservation Board to prevent speculation by private buyers.

Western Slope voters have overwhelmingly passed a proposal by the Colorado River Water Conservation District to raise property taxes across its 15-county region.

As a developer seeks an easement in the Kaibab National Forest, the character of surrounding towns and parks could drastically change.

Wyoming native Leslie Hagenstein lives on the ranch where she grew up and remembers her grandmother and father delivering milk in glass bottles from the family’s Mount Airy Dairy. The...

A powerful group that steers Utah’s water policy keeps pushing for costly infrastructure over meaningful conservation efforts.

Two new water storage projects designed to capture the flows of the Colorado River may represent the end of an era on the river.