Jay Fetcher News Today

By ALLEN BEST

Abandonment is the official term for one of Colorado’s best-known water adages and concepts: “use it or lose it.” Every 10 years, engineers and water commissioners from the Colorado Division of Water Resources review every water right. If they don’t see evidence of use, they could place the water right on the abandonment list and a water court could make it official.

Abandonment is the official term for one of Colorado’s best-known water adages and concepts: “use it or lose it.” Every 10 years, engineers and water commissioners from the Colorado Division of Water Resources review every water right. If they don’t see evidence of use, they could place the water right on the abandonment list and a water court could make it official.

Abandonment is the official term for one of Colorado’s best-known water adages and concepts: “use it or lose it.” Every 10 years, engineers and water commissioners from the Colorado Division of Water Resources review every water right. If they don’t see evidence of use, they could place the water right on the abandonment list and a water court could make it official.

CLARK — Northwest Colorado rancher Jay Fetcher looked out over the snowy fields of his family’s sprawling ranch 20 miles north of Steamboat Springs.

CLARK — Northwest Colorado rancher Jay Fetcher looked out over the snowy fields of his family’s sprawling ranch 20 miles north of Steamboat Springs.

CLARK — Northwest Colorado rancher Jay Fetcher looked out over the snowy fields of his family’s sprawling ranch 20 miles north of Steamboat Springs.

CLARK — Northwest Colorado rancher Jay Fetcher looked out over the snowy fields of his family’s sprawling ranch 20 miles north of Steamboat Springs.

Don Gittleson lost a heifer to wolves in December. Three weeks later wolves killed a neighbors working ranch dog and injured another.

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed Tuesday, Dec. 21, that a carcass of a heifer found near Walden was killed by wolves.