The Yampa River is full of snowmelt on its way to the Colorado River, bringing temporary relief for farms, fish and millions of people in the Southwest.
The Outstanding Waters designation can be awarded to streams with high water quality and exceptional recreational or ecological attributes, and the intent is to protect the water quality from future degradation.
After almost four years of studies, meetings and laborious consensus-building, the Yampa River Integrated Water Management Plan committee released its public report in September that included 20 recommendations to provide a road map to protect.
More than 400 students from Yampa to Maybell gathered in Hayden on Wednesday, Sept. 21, to learn about something none of them can live without. The first-ever Yampa Youth Water Festival presented by the Upper.
Steamboat Springs nonprofit Friends of the Yampa is asking for help from river users on the middle Yampa River to submit information through the Boating and Fishing Intercept Survey. Anyone who has already or intends.