Firefighter helicopter Steve Cohen said that in his 25-year career, he has seen firsthand fires steadily increasing in size. It wasn’t that long ago, he said, that “we’d never heard of a 100,000-acre ...

Kari Dequine is a freelance journalist and mother of two. Born and raised in the Roaring Fork Valley, she spent the past 20 years working as a staff writer for newspapers in New Orleans, Colorado and ...

Streamflows on the Western Slope have plummeted over the last month, sending water managers scrambling to boost flows for ...

Given the moment's urgency, the Forest Conservancy is seeing record levels of staffing, recruitment, total hours and in-kind value. Through Aug. 17, volunteers with Forest Conservancy have worked more ...

Stream-gauge readings from the Roaring Fork and Colorado River basins updated in real time with an interactive mapping feature.

The story of the WRNF is therefore a weave of time and place, and of a people for whom the forest is both an economic lifeblood and a battleground for conservation and preservation.

Sources see this abundance as a benefit to the consumer, to the community and to humanity at large. Yet, they also recognize that Aspen’s cultural scene could be viewed as an embarrassment of riches.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff told members of the Colorado Basin Roundtable they believe this private lake is an upstream source of the mussels that have contaminated the Colorado River.

In an effort to head off concerns about the state’s role in a major Western Slope water deal, a Western Slope water district has offered up a compromise proposal to Front Range water providers. In ...

Indigenous youths with Ríos to Rivers’ Paddle Tribal Waters program head toward the shore where the Klamath River meets the Pacific Ocean in Northern California on July 11. The young kayakers were ...

Heather Sackett is the managing editor at Aspen Journalism and the editor and reporter on the Water Desk. She has also reported for The Denver Post and the Telluride Daily Planet. Heather has a master ...

An FIS spokesperson relayed concerns from race officials that “some of the proposed developments in that zone could potentially restrict the space and infrastructure needed to deliver a top-tier event ...