Call it a compact: Why examining the limits of Colorado River sharing is key to a successful state water plan

By Greg Trainor As Colorado’s Water Plan moves forward through a year of revisions, there remains in the background a larger, most-worrisome issue of diminishing supply across the wider Colorado River Basin. This is evident from the dropping water levels of lakes Powell and Mead during the last 13 years. In 2014, these two major …

Alarms Sound on the Shrinking Colorado River

We've seen, heard and gossiped about low flows through the Colorado River, from the designation of the river as 'endangered' in April to the Bureau of Reclamation's Colorado River Water Supply and Demand Study-- there's been a lot of big news on the river recently. Still, Friday's announcement by the Bureau of Reclamation about the …

Down the Colorado River

-Zak Podmore Last October, Will Stauffer-Norris and I, two recent college grads and field researchers for the State of the Rockies Project, snowshoed into the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming. With us, we carried our winter camping gear, lightweight rafts, paddles, drysuits, plenty of food, and a simple goal: we wanted to paddle a river …