Category: Conservation and Efficiency

Private Land for Public Good

November 17, 2020 by Jason Plautz

Research technician and Grand County rancher Wendy Thompson collects hay samples as part of a far-reaching experiment to see if ranchers can fallow hay meadows and conserve more water for the Colorado River. Credit: Dave Timko, This American Land. Aug. 12, 2020

These Hay Fields May Know How to Save the Colorado River

by Jerd Smith

Millions in new taxes approved for West Slope, Front Range water districts

November 4, 2020 by Sarah Kuta

Colorado water regulators are asking lawmakers to allow them to assume oversight of streams once protected by the Clean Water Act. Credit: Jeff Rice, Sterling Journal-Advocate

Aurora inks $43.7 million in water deals on South Platte River

October 21, 2020 by Jerd Smith

Research technician and Grand County rancher Wendy Thompson collects hay samples as part of a far-reaching experiment to see if ranchers can fallow hay meadows and conserve more water for the Colorado River. Credit: Dave Timko, This American Land. Aug. 12, 2020

These hay fields may know something we don’t: how to save the Colorado River

October 7, 2020 by Jerd Smith

Water conservation payments to Colorado ranchers could top $120M; is it enough?

September 30, 2020 by Jerd Smith

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