West Slope source of zebra mussels identified The source of zebra mussels, an invasive species threatening the Colorado River, the Government Highline Canal, Highline Lake and Mack Mesa Lake is ...

Eleanor Bennett is an award-winning journalist reporting on regional social justice issues in collaboration with Aspen Public Radio and Aspen Journalism. Her stories are published in English and ...

Representatives from two lower basin states on the Colorado River have said they would finally address something that the upper basin states, including Colorado, have long pressed them to do: Fix the ...

West Slope water managers say they are being cut out of the process to review and approve applications for a federally funded conservation program, even though a state official had previously promised ...

What Sullivan and his neighbors worry about — corporate ownership takeover, creeping unaffordability, the potential for the park to be displaced by redevelopment — is happening at an accelerating rate ...

Time is ticking for states that share the shrinking Colorado River to negotiate a new set of governing rules. One major sticking point, which has the potential to thrust the parties into a protracted ...

Amid ongoing budget and staffing shortages in the U.S. Forest Service, Roaring Fork Valley governments and nonprofits are stepping up to protect public lands in the short term.

The Glenwood Springs-based Colorado River Water Conservation District has inked a nearly $100 million deal with Xcel Energy to buy one of the oldest and biggest non-consumptive water rights on the ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. The city of Aspen is reaffirming its plans to build reservoirs to store water from Castle and Maroon ...

The recovery program works to reestablish healthy populations of four species of fish that are listed under the ESA by adding water to the river, restoring habitat, growing hatchery fish and ...

A site map of the Lift One corridor project from 2020 shows where historic buildings and new lodging developments will fit along South Aspen Street, as illustrated by Design Workshop and posted on the ...

A report released this week by the Environmental Protection Agency shows that Lincoln Creek in the four miles between the Ruby Mine and Grizzly Reservoir exceeds state water quality standards for ...