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Rivers

River dam near Salida removed after years of rescues, drownings and environmental impacts

Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Chaffee County commissioners help fund removal

DATE: Nov 10, 2023 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Durango-area subdivision couldn’t be more proud of its wastewater discharge

Housing development has a state-of-the-art $8.6 million sewage system out of Austria

DATE: Dec 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado’s official state fish makes second comeback after previously thought extinct

Wildlife officials report a breeding population of greenback cutthroat trout

DATE: Sep 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Zealand river’s personhood status offers hope to Māori

WHANGANUI, New Zealand – The Whanganui River is surging into the ocean, fattened from days of winter rain and yellowed from the earth and clay that has collapsed into its sides. Logs and deb...

DATE: Aug 15, 2022 | CATEGORY: Travel

Durango couple complete 6,800-mile river and coastal loop

The Marshalls circumnavigated eastern United States and Canada

DATE: Aug 11, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Upper Basin states lay out plan to help the Colorado River, but say Lower Basin needs to chip in more

Letter: ‘Efforts to protect critical reservoir elevations must include significant actions focused downstream of Lake Powell’

DATE: Jul 19, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Southwest Colorado a playground for research scientists

Landscape diversity invites study of desert groundwater, alpine permafrost and prehistoric wildfires

DATE: Jul 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

How citizen scientists are testing our streams and rivers for contamination

Mountain Studies Institute, Fort Lewis College partner to measure E. coli in San Juan National Forest’s waterways

DATE: Jul 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Official: Colorado River cuts should be made by Arizona, Nevada and California

States have two months to drastically reduce water use or face federal intervention

DATE: Jul 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: Regional News

June rains top monthly normals in Southwest Colorado

Moisture improves fire and rafting conditions, could signal early start to monsoon

DATE: Jun 24, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

CPW to celebrate 125th anniversary with reopening of Durango Wildlife Museum

Reintroduction of lynx is among local field office’s accomplishments over last century

DATE: Jun 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

As drought and wind plague Southwest Colorado, one family finds too much water

Creeks and rivers are rising fast from snowmelt, creating hazardous conditions

DATE: May 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

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