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    When Wildfire Burns A High Mountain Forest, What Happens To The Snow?

    Jan 06, 2021

    Record-breaking wildfires in 2020 turned huge swaths of Western forests into barren burn scars.

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    2020 Delivers Setbacks For Some Long-Planned Western Water Projects

    Nov 19, 2020

    2020 has been a tough year for some of the Colorado River basin’s long-planned, most controversial water projects.

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    Water Managers Consider The Future Of The Colorado River

    Dec 17, 2019

    A rather quiet gathering 

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    “Climate Whiplash” Tests Four Corners Communities’ Ability To Adapt

    Oct 16, 2019

    Climate change has been called the new normal. But residents in some parts of the Southwest say after living through the last two years, there’s nothing normal about it.

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    Can A 'Wild' River Survive In A Rapidly Drying West?

    Sep 03, 2019

    Finding a river in the West that still behaves like a Western river -- one that rises and falls with the annual rush of melting snow -- is tough. 

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    As Southwest Water Managers Grapple With Climate Change, Can A ‘Grand Bargain’ Work?

    Jul 26, 2019

    Water managers on the Colorado River are facing a unique moment.

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    Felt An Earthquake On The Colorado-Utah Border? It's Probably This Federal Facility

    Jul 01, 2019

    Nara Bopp was working at a thrift store in Moab, Utah the morning of March 4 when her desk started moving. 

    “I immediately assumed that it was a garbage truck,” Bopp said.  

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    On Stressed Colorado River, States Test How Many More Diversions Watershed Can Bear

    Jun 18, 2019

    The Colorado River is short on water. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at a slate of proposed water projects in the river’s Upper Basin states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. 

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    As The Colorado River Basin Dries, Can An Accidental Oasis Survive?

    Apr 18, 2019

    CIÉNEGA DE SANTA CLARA, MEXICO — Juan Butrón-Méndez navigates a small metal motorboat through a maze of tall reeds here in the Mexican state of Sonora.

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    Five Years Later, Effects Of Colorado River Pulse Flow Still Linger

    Apr 17, 2019

    SAN LUIS RIO COLORADO, MEXICO — From inside a small airplane, tracing the Colorado River along the Arizona-California border, it’s easy to see how it happened.

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    Western Water Managers Bet On Cloud Seeding, Despite Gaps In Science

    Feb 13, 2019

    Each winter, anxious water managers, farmers and city leaders in the American Southwest turn their eyes toward the snowy peaks of the southern Rocky Mountains.

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    Feds Give Western Water Managers Deadline On Drought Plan

    Dec 17, 2018

    Water managers in the West met in Las Vegas last week for an annual conference, and on their agenda was figuring out how to deal with Lake Mead dropping to historically low levels. 

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    Everyone Knows The Colorado River’s Top Agreement Is Flawed. Why Not Fix It?

    Nov 19, 2018

    Colorado River water managers have plenty to argue about. But there’s one thing on which nearly everyone who relies on the southwestern river can agree.

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    Lake Mead's Bathtub Ring Might Get Bigger

    Jul 05, 2018

    Water managers are worried about what continuing drought will do to the lake.

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    Keeping A Unique Water Tradition Alive In Southern Colorado’s Acequias

    May 16, 2018

    A warm spring has already melted much of the limited snowpack that sits high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains in southern Colorado.

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    Five Things To Know About The Latest Colorado River Dust Up

    Apr 24, 2018

    A quiet, rising tension over water in the southwest has burst into the public square.

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    When A Drought Lasts 18 Years, Does It Need A New Name?

    Apr 05, 2018

    From the roof of Chuck McAfee’s adobe farmhouse in rural southwestern Colorado, you can see into three other states: Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

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    As Weather Warms, What's The State Of Our River?

    Mar 20, 2018

    As the weather warms up, the water level of Lake Mead will once again become a topic of conversation - and a worry.

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    How A Dying Lake In California Factors Into The Colorado River’s Future

    Mar 15, 2018

    The biggest lake in California is shrinking.

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    For A Few Weeks The Colorado River Reached The Ocean. Will It Happen Again?

    Feb 09, 2018

     

    In 2014, the Colorado River did something it hadn’t done in decades. For a few short weeks that spring, the overdrawn, overallocated river reached the Pacific Ocean.

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    Should We 'Freak Out' Over Water Supply, Drought?

    Dec 15, 2017

    The main focus of water managers up and down the Colorado River is keeping Lake Mead high enough that emergency drought measures do not have to kick in.

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