Frying Pan River News Today

While sorting tackle for an upcoming trip to fish the blue-winged olive hatch on the Frying Pan River, I briefly pondered if I should include my Hidy 8-foot, 4-weight split bamboo fly rod.

The effort to raise the $98.5 million purchase price for the water rights for the Shoshone Power Plant in Glenwood Canyon has taken another step forward. The Eagle County Board of Commissioners Tuesday signed a...

After season’s dry start, snowpack topped 30-year median in late March

30 years ago March 25, 1994 Vail Associates announced it had purchased the 19-acre Avon Station mobile home park for rumored use as a parking lot and/or a gondola base for Beaver Creek, the Vail...

Pitkin-area elk herds are vulnerable due to low calf-to-cow ratios, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Still, the agency intends to maintain elk population objectives at their current levels, saying that’s what the landscape...

We considered the bear that scampered across the backyard of our vacation rental in Basalt as further evidence of our good fortune.

Luis Benitez wants to create a federal office of outdoor recreation in Washington, D.C. Can he convince Beltway politicians?

Below is the highest- and lowest-priced closing on a free-market, ­private, whole-ownership sale from the most recent Pitkin County Clerk & ­Recorder’s Office report.

CPW revisiting herd management plans

Eagle County residents will have a chance to weigh in on elk herd management plans next week. Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s Northwest region is seeking input on elk management as it drafts Herd Management Plans...