A new NASA airborne mission has created the first maps of the entire snowpack of two major mountain watersheds in California and Colorado, producing the most accurate measurements to date of how much water they hold. The data from NASA's Airborne ...NASA pinpoints snowpack measurements in Colorado
A new NASA airborne mission has created the first maps of the entire snowpack of two major mountain watersheds in California and Colorado, producing the most accurate measurements to date of how much water they hold. The data from NASA's Airborne ...CSU: Native Colorado River cutthroat trout in trouble
With only 14 percent of their original habitat remaining, native Colorado River cutthroat trout have been forced into isolation by habitat loss and invading non-native trout in relatively short reaches of high-altitude headwater streams. A new ...Colorado named America's most endangered river once again
The Colorado River is so dammed, diverted and drained that it has risen back to the top of the America’s Most Endangered Rivers rankings. The list by Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit American Rivers highlights a three-year federal Bureau ...High-elevation forest mortality continues as spruce surpasses lodgepole
As the mountain pine beetle epidemic tapers off after killing much of Colorado’s lodgepole forests, it has been surpassed by another epidemic in the upper-elevation forests. “For the first time in recent years, the acreage impacted ...Udall acknowledges growing urgency to act on climate change as Obama takes on 'daunting task'
Environmentalists this year have been both buoyed by President Barack Obama’s apparent willingness to take serious action on climate change and discouraged by recent statements that it’s a “daunting task” requiring “some ...Drought intensifies across the critical high mountains
State water experts said Thursday there's little chance the Colorado snowpack will climb back to normal, as drought has intensified across the critical high mountains of Colorado, with parts of key watersheds like the Blue River in Summit County, ...Annual weather and climate summit back in Breckenridge
SUMMIT COUNTY—Following a year that ended up being the warmest on record for the contiguous 48 states, and that included a monster drought and superstorm Sandy, weather experts have a lot to talk about. This week, broadcast meteorologists ...Maybe it’s time for a snow dance
After a thoroughly forgettable winter of 2011-12 in Colorado, mountain folk are pulling for (pining for?) a cold and snowy winter with heaps of powdery fluff. At this point, however, the meteorological signs point to another winter of mild ...El Niño forming, but weather pundits more cautious after getting burned last year
After a two-year La Niña that brought extreme snowfall the first winter and extreme drought the second, Mother Nature seems ready for a change, as Pacific Ocean conditions gradually shift to what looks like an emerging El Niño.Snowpack at 1 percent of average
The snowpack in the Colorado River basin has dropped down to 1 percent of average as of June 1, according to a news release from the National Resources Conservation Service. As of the beginning of the month, snowpack levels all across Colorado ...100 percent of Colorado experiencing some level of drought condition
VAIL, Colo.—The U.S. Drought Monitor expanded the area in northwest Colorado that is designated as being in extreme drought, growing 3 percent in the last week to cover about ten percent of the state. The May 29 map, released Thursday, ...Drought extreme in part of Colorado River Basin
VAIL, Colo.—Extreme drought conditions have been introduced in the Yampa, Colorado, and Gunnison River basins according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The latest map, released Thursday, shows 96 percent of Colorado is experiencing some level of drought condition, with drought intensity in northwestern Colorado “extreme.” The U.S. Drought Monitor ...
High country haze coming from wildfires in New Mexico and Paradox, Colo.
Smoke from the 82,000-acre Whitewater-Baldy Fire in New Mexico, as well as the 2,000-acre Paradox, Colorado, are impairing air quality in the state’s north-central mountains, said Chad Gimmestad, the regional National Weather Service ...Celestial treat for high country sky watchers
If dusk seems to start early this Sunday (May 20), don't be alarmed by the twilight; it's only an eclipse. To be precise, an annular eclipse, when the moon passes directly in front of the sun, and the Colorado high country won't be a bad spot ...Hat Creek's cutthroat trout get some bonus water from Vail Resorts land deal
VAIL, Colo. — An Eagle County land trade that helped Vail Resorts add a little acreage at the Vail Village base area will also end up helping fish, including rare cutthroat trout, in Hat Creek, in the Upper Brush Creek drainage. The land ...Submit A Story
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