The scenic Upper Colorado River between its headwaters in Rocky Mountain National Park and its confluence with the Roaring Fork River has landed the sixth spot on the America’s Most Endangered Rivers list.
Threatened by two major diversion projects…
Water experts are meeting en masse in Denver today and Wednesday to try to figure out how to plan for an expected doubling of Colorado’s population to 10 million people by 2050, according the Durango Herald.
State water officials,…
The long, winding and seemingly endless road to adopting Colorado’s controversial roadless rule took another turn Monday, when Gov. Bill Ritter announced that an even further revised version will be announced by the end of the month, with the…
Western Colorado has seen the extractive industry come and go, so U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., and his brother, U.S. Congressman John Salazar, D-Manassas, hope to preserve Colorado’s natural beauty in unique places such as the Roan Plateau for future…
Catching up to Gov. Ritter for a short five-minute interview during his current Western Slope visit wasn’t easy. On Friday, he was scheduled to be in Craig, Rifle and Eagle mostly traveling by car. Ritter had started his day…
Two of Colorado’s oil and gas drilling battlegrounds — the Roan Plateau near Rifle and the Vermillion Basin outside of Craig- will headline the discussion in a special press conference with US Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO) and State Sen. Josh…
How many of us are guilty of “talking” about issues, but we never get around to “acting” on our concerns? Joe Brown and Peter Moore, two friends living in the Boulder area, do not fall into this category. Over a…
The stage is set for an interesting night in Rifle on Wednesday at the gubernatorial oil and gas debate hosted by the Associated Government of Northwest Colorado. Both Bill Ritter and Bob Beauprez have assured organizers that they…
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