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More than one-third of the students who presented posters at the Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities on March 28 will receive monetary awards for their top-quality efforts.

Colorado saw its worst fire season last year, with the three largest fires in state history and more than 600,000 acres burned. But some of the effects didn’t appear until this July, when heavy rain pushed sediment from damaged forests down mountainsides, causing mudslides that shut down sections of Interstate 70 for almost two weeks.

Colorado saw its worst fire season last year, with the three largest fires in state history and more than 600,000 acres burned.

Colorado saw its worst fire season last year, with the three largest fires in state history and more than 600,000 acres burned.

Colorado saw its worst fire season last year, with the three largest fires in state history and more than 600,000 acres burned.

Colorado saw its worst fire season last year, with the three largest fires in state history and more than 600,000 acres burned.

Colorado saw its worst fire season last year, with the three largest fires in state history and more than 600,000 acres burned.

Where fires decimated forest systems that held soil in place, an increase in droughts followed by heavy rainfall poses a different kind of threat to the water supplies that are essential to the health of communities.

Sediment from massive blazes chokes rivers and reservoirs, contaminating water supplies. The problem is only getting worse as climate change intensifies wildfires and lengthens the fire season.