Column: The mighty Yampa, our valley’s livelihood An angler tries his luck on the Yampa River Friday afternoon. The river was just reopened for fishing. Did you know that Colorado’s Water Plan calls for 80% of locally prioritized rivers to be covered by a Stream Management Plan by 2030? Yes, that includes our Yampa River Basin. The Yampa-White-Green Basin Roundtable (BRT) is one of nine grassroots water policy roundtables throughout Colorado working to develop locally-driven collaborative solutions to water supply challenges. The BRT’s Integrated Water Management Plan (IWMP) will combine community input with science and engineering assessments to identify actions that protect existing and future water uses and support healthy river ecosystems in the face of growing populations, changing land uses, and climate uncertainty.