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Star Journal Holy guacamole! And pico, too Share: Everybody needs a good pico de gallo (fresh salsa) recipe in their repertoire. It gets gobbled up with tortillas, goes great on any taco or burrito you can think of, and becomes a great base for guacamole by simply adding it to smashed avocados. This is basically a 2-for-1 recipe as the preparation of the pico de gallo is 90% of work. Simple ingredients like tomatoe...

Steamboat Pilot & Today The Yampa River basin has experienced calls for senior water rights for two of the past three dry summers, and the Colorado Division of Water Resources currently is reviewing a formal request to declare the lower basin over-appropriated as is the case across most of Colorado. In mid-March, as part of a 30-day public comment period, Moffat County commissioners submitted a letter to the Division of Water Resources state engineer asking for a two-year extension before the s...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   TUNBRIDGE — It’s doubtful if, over 50 years ago when Michael Millard built his first guitar in an apartment in Brooklyn that he could project into the future to his retirement and see himself as one of America’s foremost builders of acoustic guitars. But as he winds down from his years at the helm of Froggy Bottom guitars in Tunbridge he can look back at 5,000 guitars in the hands of players and great respect from the guitar bu...

Aspen Journalism Homestake Creek flows from Homestake Reservoir near Red Cliff. A pilot reservoir release to test how to get water to the state line in the event of a Colorado River Compact Call proved hard to track for state engineers. Bethany Blitz/Aspen Journalism In September, Front Range water providers released some water downstream — which they were storing in Homestake Reservoir — to test how they could get it to the state line in the event of a Colorado River Compact call. But accu...

A majority of Colorado voters believe the state should spend more money on protecting and conserving its water resources, but they’re not willing to support new state taxes to fund

All images: Froggy Bottom Guitars There’s no shortage of manufacturers working in the realm of guitars and related equipment that purport to produce ‘custom made’ goods, to work by hand, or to craft their wares the way it was done in the good old days. Tour the Froggy Bottom workshop, however, and speak to founder Michael Millard and his partner luthiers Eric Goodenough and Andy Mueller, and you really come away with a feel for what such terms should encompass. “Most of what...

Drought-stricken Colorado River Basin could see additional 20% drop in water flow by 2050 This is what climate change has brought. “Aridification” is what Bradley Udall formally calls the situation in the western U.S. But perhaps more accurately, he calls it hot drought – heat-induced lack of water due to climate change. That was the core of research released in 2017 by Udall, a senior climate and water scientist at Colorado State University’s Colorado Water Center, and Jonathan Overpec...

Posted by Jan Wondra | Feb 8, 2021 Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet Set to Fight for Western Priorities to Be Included in a National Climate Strategy Friday Feb. 5,  Sen. Bennet announced a framework of Western climate resilience priorities carefully crafted by leaders in Colorado with a connection to the Colorado River––from the agriculture, water, local government, tribal government, education, environment, and business communities. Bennet initially convened this group, known as the ...

| Updated: Feb. 8, 2021, 5:44 p.m. Water managers in the Upper Colorado River Basin know the number by heart: 3,525. It refers to an elevation, a topographic ring around the shores and walls of Lake Powell, and it signals a crisis. At 3,525 feet above sea level, the federally owned reservoir could only spare another 35-foot drop before reaching the point where power generation at the Glen Canyon Dam becomes impossible. Below that lies a worst-case scenario known as “dead pool” where ...

Exclusive: Hedge funds eye water markets that could net billions, as levels drop in Lake Powell Zak Podmore © Francisco Kjolseth (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Colorado River flows into Lake Powell near Hite Marina on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. The reservoir is only 40% full and continued surging demand combined with the ravages of a drying climate signal a water crisis in the not-too-distant future. Wall Street investors see the an opportunity to capitalize on...