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Colorado's Rocky Mountains have reached peak snowpack, but climate change is changing the way snow turns to water. States around the region are debating new rules for the river that center around new water deficits.
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The short documentary won the People’s Choice Award at this year's 5Point Adventure Film Festival and will be showing at the festival's encore screening on Saturday, May 4. The film follows Triston Chaney and his Alaskan Yup'ik family as they fight to protect their culture and fishing livelihood against a proposed mining project.
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The state won't know until May or June whether the chemical deployed in the Snake River worked to kill all the mussels.
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A partnership between the USFS and Pitkin County is starting to provide insights into where beavers can best thrive in the Roaring Fork watershed. Officials are hoping that they can use the data to make the ecosystem more beaver-friendly.
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Many Americans are trying to lower their energy bill – and carbon footprint– by turning to rooftop solar panels. A new report shows where in the U.S. it makes the most financial sense to go solar.
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New research could help stakeholders bring water use along the Colorado River back in sync with what nature provides. In Wyoming and other Upper Basin states, 90% of irrigated farming is used to feed cattle, which accounts for more than three times the water use of all cities, towns, commercial and industrial uses combined.
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Wyoming authorities cited and fined the man $250, but so far have brought no other legal penalties for publicly displaying and killing wild wolf.
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Colorado lawmakers are facing a $170 budget shortfall, which could impact an effort to reduce air, water and soil pollution in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color that have experienced disproportionate health impacts for decades.
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A new report shows air pollution is affecting most national parks across the U.S., including parts of the Mountain West.
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A coalition of environmental groups has proposed a set of new rules for managing the Colorado River amid heated negotiations about how to share the water supply, which is shrinking due to climate changed.
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U.S. federal agencies and sovereign tribal agencies often work together on shared goals like managing wildfire, improving wildlife habitat and other issues. A new repository collects a number of these co-stewardship - or sovereign-to-sovereign - agreements in an effort to help tribes and others better understand their possible uses.