RBC | Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s (CPW) newest director, Jeff Davis, joined RBC residents at the White River Alliance (WRA) monthly meeting via Zoom last week. WRA members met at Smoking River Brewery to hear Davis detail his focus and goals as director of the state agency. They also asked questions and engaged in a
Meeker-area hunting outfitter Shawn Welder had just come down from the high country in the Flat Tops in mid-July and was struck by the absence of something he would see
Meeker-area hunting outfitter Shawn Welder had just come down from the high country in the Flat Tops in mid-July and was struck by the absence of something he would see
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RBC | The White River Alliance, a local stakeholders group for the White River, met Dec. 4. Erin Light, the Division 6 Water Engineer, who is in charge of all administration of water rights on the White River (and Yampa and Green), was the guest speaker. She announced that Governor Polis had raised the level of drought preparedness from level 2 to level 3 based on the extent of the above average temperatures and below average precipitation. We are currently at 64% of snowpack for the average this year.
She indicated that the White River is making progress on installing head gates with 80 installed this year, and 505 to go in the White. As this is the statutory year for developing a list of water rights that have been abandoned in whole or in part (every 10 years) she is expecting and seeing some objections, and encourages anyone to contact her office (970-879-0272). There are slightly less than 70 water rights on the 2020 abandonment list in the White River basi