Declining water levels at Rifle Gap Reservoir have prompted Colorado Parks and Wildlife to close boat ramps at the park starting Aug. 15, six weeks earlier than last year and two and a half months.
As the deadline approaches for the seven Colorado River basin states to come up with a plan to conserve water, some Colorado water managers are asking what authority the federal government has in the upper.
Grass Valley Reservoir at Harvey Gap State Park is a quick drive away for anyone living along the Interstate 70 corridor. On a recent 90-degree Friday afternoon, Battlement Mesa resident Katelyn Birney took full advantage.
A relatively large butterfly subspecies found only in western Colorado, northern New Mexico and far-eastern Utah would be listed for Endangered Species Act protection as a threatened species under a