Western Water Project

The worst of the Dolores River whitewater now behind us, boatman Scotty Moises ponders the map for a moment before pegging the black hashmarks beneath the cracked skin of his sun-baked index finger.

Several stakeholders are supporting the broadened focus of a federal water supply study that will look at more than the Teton River and rebuilding the failed Teton Dam.

This article appears in the April 2010 issue of 5280 Magazine.

"We're trying to make sure fish can go where they want to go and tie that into irrigation productivity and efficiency," says Scott Yates of Wyoming Trout Unlimited (TU).

Whitewater enthusiasts and anglers alike will have something to cheer about this spring, thanks to winter work being conducted throughout the Arkansas River corridor.

As the giant mound at the city of Durango's snow-storage site at Cundiff Park begins to melt, it also gives rise to worries over water quality. The 17-acre snow storage site just south of town, which the city has been using for the last eight years, sits adjacent to the Animas River.

National Conservation Areas, designed to protect cultural, historical and recreational assets, range in size from 19 acres to 799,000 acres.

A new report says Colorado wetlands in danger from pollution or development are without oversight by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Entrepreneur Aaron Million is committed to keeping a place for agriculture and the environment in his plan to bring water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir to Colorado's Front Range.

The Supreme Court of Nevada today smacked down the Southern Nevada Water Authority's claim to tens of thousands of acre feet of water in rural Nevada.