News Feed- Forecasters issue winter weather advisory for northern Colorado mountains - The Republic
- Gov. Hickenlooper signs four bills aimed at helping Colorado outdoors - Denver Post
- Oil and gas industry lobbies for land in Colorado mountains - Denver Post
- Iowa education director a finalist for superintendent position in Colorado ... - The Republic
- Rain and mountain snow on the way - KOAA.com Colorado Springs and Pueblo News
- First four-year degree students celebrate at Colorado Mountain College - Summit Daily News
- How the Mountain Ranges of Colorado Make Snow - OnTheSnow.com
- Trio of adventurers aims to ski Colorado's 100 tallest peaks - Denver Post
- Snow To Keep Falling In Southern Colorado Mountains - CBS Local
- Avalanche in Colorado Kills Five Snowboarders - New York Times
Category Archives: Water
Artificial insemination of clouds
Does cloud-seeding work? That’s always been the question. A $13.5 million study by Wyoming aims to get a better handle on the answer. But Los Angeles isn’t waiting. It has long seeded winter storm clouds in the Sierra Nevada, and it is now helping pay for efforts high in the Colorado Rockies.
Continue reading
Greenways and a more holistic Colorado River
Most analysis of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s tenure have focused on energy politics, and rightly so. But his greatest legacies may be in greenbelt protections and in a treaty amendment with Mexico that helps envision the Colorado River in a different way. Continue reading
Posted in Colorado River, Denver, Energy, Environmental, Renewable Energy, Water
Leave a comment
Bracing for a water-short summer
As Colorado continues its second year of drought, Denver Water, the state’s largest provider of municipal water, takes additional steps to conserve supplies. Continue reading
Posted in Denver, Mountain towns, Water, Wildfire
Leave a comment
Colorado River Basin Supply and Demand Study
Pipe water from Memphis to Denver? Tow icebergs from Alaska to LA? Lots of fun, improbable ideas were examined in the Colorado River Basin Supply and Demand Study, which was issued in December. But the gritty realty as population grows and river volumes decline during coming decades will likely be increased conservation and more transfers from agriculture to cities. Continue reading
Studies in paleoclimatology in Rocky Mountains
Paleoclimatologist Bryan Shuman runs a paleoclimate and paleoecology lab at the University of Wyoming, where he and his students examine past climates and the vegetation and animals that inhabited those times. Our own times are interesting indeed, he says, with warming of temperatures rivaling those of when the glaciers rapidly receded in the Rocky Mountains 11,000 years ago. Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Environmental, Jackson Hole, Mountain towns, Science, Water, Wildfire
1 Comment
Ho-hum ski season as severe drought enters second year
A second year of drought that is being described as the worst in recorded history in Colorado has ski slopes mostly uninspiring, reservoirs declining — and fire managers worrying. Continue reading
Posted in Aspen, Denver, Environmental, Mountain towns, Steamboat Springs, Vail, Water, Wildfire
1 Comment
Why the slow action on global warming?
Intimate in its setting but expansive in its outlook, Mountainfilm at Telluride this year turns its attention most directly at global warming during its Moving Mountains forum. Continue reading
Vail Global Energy Forum
Mountain towns and valleys of the West have become notable marketplaces for ideas and deals, with Aspen, Sun Valley and Jackson Hole all hosting conferences at which national — and often international — headlines are made. Can Vail succeed in its alliance with Stanford University, which has aspirations of its own to be a key player in the world energy debate. The Vail Global Energy Forum continues March 2-3 at the Vilar Center in Beaver Creek.
Continue reading
Posted in Aspen, Denver, Economic Development, Energy, Environmental, Jackson Hole, Mountain towns, Renewable Energy, Science, Skiing, Telluride, Vail, Water
Leave a comment
Using skiing to make case for climate action
Aspen Skiing Co. and Vail Resorts are, in many ways, two peas of the same pod. But in their public stances about the risks of global climate change, they’re apples and oranges. An op/ed by Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz sparks this examination Continue reading
Posted in Environmental, Mountain towns, Renewable Energy, Science, Tourism, Water
3 Comments
Vail and Steamboat turn 50; and Telluride now 40
Mountain towns of Colorado have had robust growth during the last 50 years based primarily on the attraction of skiing. But as Vail and Steamboat celebrate the half-century, the evidence is clear that they’ll likely need to reinvent themselves again, just as Aspen and Telluride did when they left mining behind. Continue reading
Posted in Denver, Economic Development, Environmental, Mountain towns, Tourism, Water
Leave a comment