Colorado

Colorado Roadless Areas (RAs) are underdeveloped locations in national forests that do not have authorized Forest Service roads. These RAs hold some of the most remote fishing in Colorado, as well as being home to a disproportionate amount of habitat for native cutthroat trout.

Environmental groups from across the West filed objections Thursday to a proposed multi billion-dollar pipeline project to import water to Colorado from Wyoming — calling it a bad idea with more unanswered questions than a presidential debate.

John Stokes’ worries about the future of Soapstone Prairie Natural Area don’t focus solely on oil and gas drilling, he is worried about how a major water pipeline could harm Soapstone, too.

Building on past successes, Trout Unlimited's West Denver Chapter is about to begin restoration of about three-quarters of a mile of Clear Creek, northwest of Golden.

If the wilderness is the heart of a people, the river is their lifeblood. In the river and its tributaries is the force that gives energy to the land and binds itself to the lives of those who visit.

The U.S. House is expected to vote this week, perhaps today, on a package of cuts to environmental programs that some Coloradans find simply unacceptable. Among the cuts, spending on climate change programs would be cut by more than $80 million or 22 percent. Money for land acquisition would drop by almost a quarter of a billion dollars or nearly 80 percent.

Officials representing Colorado river basins will meet Wednesday to consider forming a task force that would study proposals to build a water pipeline from Wyoming’s Flaming Gorge Reservoir to serve Colorado cities.

Some conservationists say it’s a waste of time.

Snowmelt-infused and river-ready, our Colorado-style session beer honors its upstream roots through the 1% for Rivers Campaign. One percent of revenues from the sales of Upslope Craft Lager will be donated to Colorado Trout Unlimited in order to protect watersheds statewide. Protecting snowmelt at its source is not only good for trout; it's also good for Colorado beer.

Why is it that the state agencies headed by the Division of Natural Resources are allowing trans-mountain diverters to kill the Upper Colorado River?

The Colorado Division of Wildlife, Trout Unlimited and many other concerned groups have been pointing out for years that the Upper Colorado River from Windy Gap Reservoir downstream to the confluence with the Blue River is Colorado's most impaired river.