1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (275+ words) Five state and federal partners have committed up to 2,500 acre-feet — 814.6 million gallons — of Fryingpan-Arkansas Project water to the Upper Arkansas River from August through November 2026 to protect fisheries and recreation during one of Colorado's most severe drought years on record....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (467+ words) © joshschutz - iStock-133883324 New Mexico acequias won’t survive the new normal of wildfires, floods and prolonged drought without a dedicated, easy-to-access funding stream that operates independently of state or federal disaster response systems. © iStock - designer491 In recent years, wildfires, floods and drought…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (184+ words) Chris Sorensen / (Kiowa County Press) A below-average snowpack across the central and western mountains left reservoirs, streams and soils short heading into the warm season, and the dry spring and early summer have only compounded the deficit. Runoff from the…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (204+ words) Colorado Parks and Wildlife has closed the west boat ramp at John Martin Reservoir State Park to trailered boat launch due to ongoing drought conditions and declining water levels, with the closure expected to last through the remainder of the…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (354+ words) With farmers entering an important part of the irrigation season, members of the Idaho Surface Water Coalition say they are reducing water deliveries and usage due to a historically low snowpack, a depleted aquifer and drought emergency. The water that…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (679+ words) The storm hit the central mountain mining districts of the Colorado Territory early in the evening on Sunday, May 21, 1876, and it just kept coming. “At first it seemed a weak attempt at a spring shower, but by midnight it had…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (338+ words) Colorado’s mountain snowpack supplies more than 70% of the state’s streams and reservoirs and has long been considered “money in the bank” for ranchers who depend on grasslands to feed livestock. But after an especially dry winter, snowpack has dropped to…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago   (393+ words) The ongoing drought has prompted federal action, such as the USDA designating 33 Colorado counties disaster areas, as well as prompting Governor Jared Polis to activate the state’s Drought Task Force. Despite some precipitation falling across western mountain ranges during the…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (307+ words) The United States Department of Agriculture has designated 33 Colorado counties as primary natural disaster areas due to severe drought conditions, making farm operators across a wide swath of the state eligible for emergency loan assistance through the Farm Service Agency....

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (370+ words) Drought conditions worsened dramatically across Colorado during the past week as an unseasonably warm and dry late winter continued to grip the state, according to the latest report from the National Drought Mitigation Center. The new map, released Thursday and…...