Hopes For ‘Miracle’ Snowpack Recovery Fade; Colorado River Headed For...
The Colorado River Basin is likely to see one of its driest spring runoff seasons on record this year, according to federal forecasters. Scientists at the Salt Lake City-based Colorado Basin River...
View ArticleFive Things To Know About The Latest Colorado River Dust Up
A quiet, rising tension over water in the southwest has burst into the public square. Agencies that manage and dole out the Colorado River’s water in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico are...
View ArticleWestern Water Managers Meet To Relieve Colorado River Tension
After nearly a month of terse exchanges among water managers in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona about Colorado River conservation strategies, representatives from the five states met...
View ArticleThe Grouse Gripes Continue As Conservationists Take On Feds About A Bird
In a flurry of lawsuits stretching across the West, conservation groups are accusing the federal government of failing to protect a rare bird: the sage grouse. This week, the groups involved in one of...
View ArticleAs Rocky Mountain Snow Starts To Melt, Colorado River Forecast Worsens
2018 wasn't the worst winter on record for the southern Rocky Mountain region, but it was close to it. “It was an extreme year on the dry side, widespread across the Colorado River Basin,” says Greg...
View ArticleFree-Range Parenting Is The Law In Utah Beginning Tuesday
The country'sfirst free-range parenting law goes into effect in Utah May 8. But people in other states are already warming to the idea.
View ArticleShort On Water In The Mountains? Beavers, To The Rescue
It’s early in the morning and Juli Scamardo is in chest waders, guiding me through a beaver meadow in Rocky Mountain National Park. “These are like mazes,” she says. “It’s hard to get through a meadow...
View ArticleColorado River Reservoirs Expected To Be Less Than Half Full, Headed Toward...
Reservoirs that store water along the Colorado River are projected to be less than half full later this year, potentially marking a historic low mark for the river system that supplies water to seven...
View ArticleA Tour Of Public Lands: Canyoneering In Utah
Public lands have been in the news a lot this year. They comprise much of the Mountain West, from around 30 percent of land in Montana and Colorado to more than 60 percent in Utah and Idaho. This...
View ArticleNavajo Candidate Sues After Being Kicked Off San Juan County Ballot
A lawsuit announced this week in Salt Lake City focuses on a contested county commission seat, newly redrawn voting districts and a Navajo candidate well known for his opposition to shrinking the Bears...
View ArticleColorado River Water Managers Can Imagine The Future And It Doesn’t Look Pretty
Fear can be a powerful motivator. The mention of one plausible future scenario along the Colorado River is enough to make some water managers in the West break into a sweat. It’s called the Compact...
View ArticleUtahns Move Towards Water Conservation While Keeping An Eye On Lake Powell...
Brooks Kelly stopped at a display of smart sprinkler-system controllers. “This 6-station timer — it’s got a rebate,” said Kelly, who works the plumbing aisle at the St. George, Utah Home Depot. “You...
View ArticleFraud In Utah Coyote Bounty Program Prompts Regulators To Get Smart
Utah is the only state in the Mountain West region that offers a bounty for coyotes — a major predator of young mule deer . Now the program is being updated because some people are cheating. The Utah...
View ArticleVeterans Are Getting Riled Up About Sage Grouse. Here's Why.
Hundreds of veterans are calling on Congress to scrap a seemingly unrelated attachment to this year’s defense spending bill .
View ArticleCan A River Play The Violin? It Can With This Researcher's Help
Stand near a river and you’ll hear a symphony of sounds: birds chirping, frogs croaking and water flowing. But what would it sound like if the stream itself could be transformed into classical music?...
View ArticleWhat's Behind The LDS Church's Opposition To Medical Marijuana?
Representatives from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are becoming more active in their opposition to a medical marijuana initiative in Utah this November.
View ArticleIs There Water Left To Be Developed In The Colorado River Basin?
The Colorado River is running low on water. The lifeline that slakes the thirst of 40 million southwestern residents is projected to hit a historic low mark within two years, forcing mandatory cuts to...
View ArticleMormon Officials Push For Session To Debate Pot, But Lawmakers Say It’s Unlikely
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came out in cautious support of medical marijuana last month but now says the legislature should decide how it’s legalized in Utah, not the voters in a...
View ArticleWater Thieves Of The West Take Notice: This Sheriff’s Deputy Is Watching
One Sunday morning several years ago Dave Huhn got a call. He’s usually off work that day, but it was the height of irrigation season and decided to answer. The woman on the other end was frantic,...
View ArticleAmid Climate And Fed Pressure, Colorado River Water Managers Attempt To Chart...
In 2007, years into a record-breaking drought throughout the southwestern U.S., officials along the Colorado River finally came to an agreement on how they’d deal with future water shortages -- and...
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