Drought and native trout: Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers

colorado reservoir dry

Finding resilience in a summer of reckoning across the Rockies and Southwest  We’ve all seen the headlines: fast growing wildfires, record low snowpack, drying reservoirs, heat waves, hoot owl restrictions, mandatory fishing closures and other worrisome conditions for our favorite coldwater critters.  But for humans, too, these challenges remain stubborn after 25+ years of drought in a lot of the West.  Across the Colorado…

Trout Unlimited Joins Colorado River Basin Cities, Businesses, Farmers, Utilities, and Conservationists to Call for $2 Billion in Federal Drought Funding

The sparkling Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon

More than 70 organizations from across the Colorado River Basin launch a coalition to stabilize water supplies Denver, CO – A broad coalition of organizations from throughout the Colorado River Basin is urging Congress to provide at least $2 billion in new federal funding to begin to address the region’s escalating water supply crisis. The…

WaterSMART: The smartest water program you’ve never heard about 

WaterSMART fishing on the green river

The WaterSMART program provides funding to irrigation infrastructure projects and other water-delivery, water conservation or watershed health projects that proactively mitigate conflicts over water scarcity, help ranchers and farmers and make our public lands and waters better able to withstand the impacts of extreme weather events and natural disasters.

Colorado River Basin and Greater Southwest

STATE OF THE BASIN For far too long, the Colorado River has been overused and overworked. Despite this year’s epic winter, the system’s largest reservoirs are still less than a third full, while the Basin faces threats to its environmental, economic, and cultural values. With so much at stake for the future of the Colorado…