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When it comes to water in the West, a lot of it is visible. Snow stacks up high in the mountains then eventually melts and flows down into valleys. It’s…
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The Fort Yuma-Quechan Indian Tribe is situated at a nexus in the Colorado River Basin.That’s true in a geographic sense. The tribe’s reservation overlays…
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A showdown is looming on the Colorado River. The river’s existing management guidelines are set to expire in 2026. The states that draw water from it are…
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California is spending more than $200 million to keep an unfolding ecological crisis from getting worse. The state wants to stabilize habitat along the…
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Record-breaking wildfires in 2020 turned huge swaths of Western forests into barren burn scars. Those forests store winter snowpack that millions of…
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AJ Carrillo farms 18 acres outside of Hotchkiss, Colorado, in the high desert of the Western Slope about an hour southeast of Grand Junction. When he…
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Dams throughout the watershed create barriers and alter flows that make life hard for native fish. Toss in 70 non-native fish species, rapidly growing…
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2020 has been a tough year for some of the Colorado River basin’s long-planned, most controversial water projects. Proposals to divert water in New…
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Traveling along western rivers can give a glimpse into the power of erosion.In southwestern Colorado, that’s made clear by the canyons and floodplains…
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An interdisciplinary team of USU climate scientists, an agronomist, and a fire and forest ecologist have developed a new computer model that is an…