NewsRack: 'Colorado River' news in 'Water-National' topic for user flenvcenter

Rejecting Nevada water deal hurts Utah, critics say	25.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 25, 2013 01:01AM MDT When Utah Gov. Gary Herbert vetoed a water-sharing agreement forged with Nevada over Snake Valley’s groundwater, he said he was acting in response to locals’ desires and to ensure that water that flows into Utah stays in Utah. But the governor’s move, which was hailed by both West Desert ranchers and environmentalists, could jeopardize Utah’s own aims on the Colorado River, according to critics in the water-development community. By failing to cooperate with an important neighbor, Utah could sac... ...
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Water to stay in 5 state reservoirs (Cached)	25.5.2013	Durango Herald
DILLON x2013 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says five western Colorado reservoirs wonx2019t be releasing water to help endangered fish this spring because of dry conditions.Under a voluntary program, when mountain snowpack is above average, the operators of Dillon, Green Mountain, Williams Fork, Wolford and Ruedi reservoirs...
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Tom Ross: Finalist for Colorado Book Award due in Steamboat to talk about future of water in the West	25.5.2013	Steamboat Pilot
Of all the research author Stephen Grace did for his book "Dam Nation," the information that concerns him most is the revelation that we have been living in an era of relative water abundance in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Get a kick out of Bucket List: Cataract Canyon (hold on tight)	21.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brett Prettyman \| The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 20, 2013 03:39PM MDT Canyonlands National Park • The Colorado River in southeastern Utah is a tricky creature. It cradles and coddles rafters for lazy, languishing days before throwing them into a cascading crush of chaos and conceivable catastrophe in Cataract Canyon. It was something explorer John Wesley Powell experienced in a dreadful way 144 years ago and an adventure that people today travel from across the world to experience, albeit in much less-dramatic fashion. Selecting places to visit for The Utah Buck... ...
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Get a kick out of Bucket List No. 1: Cataract Canyon (hold on tight)	19.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brett Prettyman \| The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 19, 2013 12:54AM MDT Canyonlands National Park • The Colorado River in southeastern Utah is a tricky creature. It cradles and coddles rafters for lazy, languishing days before throwing them into a cascading crush of chaos and conceivable catastrophe in Cataract Canyon. It was something explorer John Wesley Powell experienced in a dreadful way 144 years ago and an adventure that people today travel from across the world to experience, albeit in much less-dramatic fashion. Selecting places to visit for The Utah Buck... ...
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The right decision	17.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published May 17, 2013 01:01AM MDT Gov. Gary Herbert made the right decision last month when he announced he would not sign a controversial agreement that would have given Nevada the go-ahead to mine the precious groundwater under the Snake Valley. He should not renege on it at the behest of legislators and other members of the Utah Water Development Commission. Herbert deserved all the praise he received for withstanding political and legal pressure and refusing to sign away the ancient water that lies deep under the dry soil s... ...
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Five California Water Districts Lead the Way in Reducing Demands on Imperiled Ecosystems	16.5.2013	Switchboard, from NRDC
Kelly Coplin, Water Program Assistant, San Francisco: This April NRDC released an issue paper highlighting five Southern California urban water agencies’ plans to reduce their reliance on water from the Bay-Delta ecosystem and the Colorado River. If fully implemented, by 2035 these agencies could save 40 billion...
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How Are California's Existing Water Management Issues Impacted by Climate Change?	15.5.2013	Switchboard, from NRDC
Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C.: This post is part of a blog series for Getting Climate Smart, a joint effort by NRDC and American Rivers to guide state action on climate and water preparedness. Like many states in the western U.S., California struggles with a...
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Temperatures spiking toward 80 degrees push Yampa River in Steamboat upwards	14.5.2013	Steamboat Pilot
The Colorado River Basin Forecast Center expects the river to rise above 2,000 cfs overnight Tuesday into Wednesday.
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Chasing A Dream, Speeding Down 'The Emerald Mile'	12.5.2013	NPR: Sunday
Host Rachel Martin talks to writer Kevin Fedarko about his new book, The Emerald Mile, which tells the harrowing story of three men who ride the flooded Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
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Preliminary hearings set for group in Moab homicide	8.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Lisa Church Special To The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 7, 2013 01:52PM MDT A woman and two teens charged in connection with the shooting death of a Moab man are scheduled for preliminary hearings in September. The two teens, Brody Blu Kruckenberg, and Charles Anthony Nelson, both 16, have been charged as adults with one count each of first-degree felony murder for the March slaying of Gregorio Salazar Campos, 33, whose body was discovered April 7 in the Colorado River. Corina Dawn Yardley, 44, who was the victim’s girlfriend and who is Kruckenberg’s mother, is charged... ...
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Cold moisture continues to buoy snowpack in mountains near Steamboat	7.5.2013	Steamboat Pilot
Weather observer Art Judson reported the morning of May 7 that 0.26 inches of rain had fallen in Steamboat in the preceding 24 hours. A chance of showers is forecast for Steamboat and Craig through Friday.
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Heavy Colorado storms boost snowpack, northern reservoirs may refill	7.5.2013	Headlines: All Headlines
Snow continued falling in the Colorado mountains in April, boosting snowpack statewide by 9 percentage points during a time that runoff season typically begins.
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State biologists to import tiger muskies for Colorado River basin	6.5.2013	Denver Post: News: Local
State biologists to import tiger muskies for Colorado River basin
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Calming the West's water wars	3.5.2013	LA Times: Opinion
The founders never expected to live in the desert; the Constitution's primary mechanism for divvying up shared water doesn't work. The founders never expected to live in the desert; the Constitution's primary mechanism for divvying up shared water doesn't work.
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Mary Ellen Hannibal: Of Time and the River	3.5.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
While there is no doubt Native American peoples have had a much more salubrious relationship with the things of nature than Anglos have, there is plenty of evidence that tribes exhausted resources just like Europeans-Americans did/do.
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Calming the West's water wars	3.5.2013	LA Times: Commentary
The founders never expected to live in the desert; the Constitution's primary mechanism for divvying up shared water doesn't work. Last week, Texas and Oklahoma squared off in a Supreme Court battle over water rights that has the drought-ridden West on edge. At issue is a state's control over its own water: Texas seeks to buy or otherwise tap water from Oklahoma under the terms of an interstate water compact, actions that Oklahoma has so far refused to permit despite the compact.
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Numbers of great blue herons looking good near Aspen	30.4.2013	Denver Post: News: Local
Numbers of great blue herons looking good near Aspen
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Eagle County drought eases, for now	28.4.2013	Vail Colorado: Business
EAGLE COUNTY - Karl Bauer knows how odd Eagle County's climate can be. The chief of the Eagle River Fire Protection District can envision a day in which a wildfire breaks out on the north side of the valley while there&#82 ...
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Vail Daily letter: Most endangered river	27.4.2013	Vail Colorado: Columnists
On April 17, the Colorado River received the dubious distinction of being named America's most endangered river by the conservation group American Rivers. Truly the lifeblood of the Southwest, the Colorado supplies drinking wa ...
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