America’s Most Endangered Rivers

The mighty Colorado lands on top of American River's 2013 list of America's Most Endangered Rivers.

Floatin and Fishin

A March float down the Colorado.

Colorado River To Be Stocked With Hofer Rainbows

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is planning to stock several thousand large, whirling disease resistant Hofer rainbow trout into a section of the Colorado River where a large, natural fish kill occurred earlier this year, the agency reported in a news release.

Wildlife managers will begin stocking operations on Tuesday between Dotsero and the Cottonwood boat ramp.

LINK (via: The Craig Daily Press)

Scrambling to sustain Colorado River flows

Average Colorado River flows through Glenwood Canyon this time of year are about 6,000 cfs, but this year, the river has been flowing at less than 20 percent of that, at about 1,100 cfs.

Colorado water managers are wrangling every last drop and trying to make them all count.

LINK (via: Summit County Citizens Voice)

The desert Southwest: Oasis or mirage?

Scientists say that to live sustainably, we should use no more than 40 percent of the water from the Colorado River Basin. As it is now, we use 76 percent, nearly double the sustainable benchmark.

LINK (via: Phys.Org

If it were a corporation, the Colorado River would be the 19th largest employer on the Fortune 500

The largest employer in the American Southwest isn’t a company, a military base, a government. When anyone talks about job creators in this part of the country, they should include the Colorado River.

LINK (via: The Salt Lake Tribune)