Each year in January, Colorado Water Trust and the Colorado Water Conservation Board launch the annual Request for Water Process. This process offers a streamlined approach to water transactions to benefit the environment on streams throughout the state. They invite water rights owners to explore options to use their water rights for streamflow restoration purposes. Learn more here.
Colorado hits a “hard pause” on water demand management as it waits for other states to catch up. The Colorado Water Conservation Board wants to instead focus on what can be done to help Colorado water users this year.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife invites anglers to learn about proposed fishery management changes at Shadow Mountain Reservoir in Grand Lake. Learn more here.
The book, “Biological responses to stream nutrients: a synthesis of science from experimental forests and ranges”, was recently published by the US Forest Service, and is now available for download, free of charge here. This book draws together, for the first time, current science from 17 experimental forests nationwide to make it readily available to the water quality regulatory community. Of particular importance to Colorado, this book summarizes the rich collection of headwater stream studies on this important topic at Fraser Experimental Forest (chapter 9), in the Colorado Front Range, and the Glacier Lakes Ecosystem Experiments Site (chapter 10) in the Wyoming Snowy Range, which are useful especially as well-documented, reference reaches for addressing water quality issues in the Rocky Mountains ecoregion.
View American River's Story Map for an interactive and in-depth introduction to the people and way of life of San Luis Valley, and the Valley's deep and enduring roots to the water of the Rio Grande.
An easy-to-understand primer about agriculture! Get up to speed on the basic facts about land and water resources related to irrigated agriculture in the Colorado River Basin. View the fact sheet.