Understanding floods could also be key to unlocking an instream flow protection strategy for the Crystal River that would claim a certain amount of spring runoff in high water years for the benefit of ...

Wilderness watersheds and wildfire risk. Murky legal territory around river access. Increasing immigration enforcement ...

Despite being a nonpartisan race where candidates’ party labels are not displayed on the ballot, the candidates have expressed opposing views on politicized issues such as a rise in school shootings, ...

As the Trump administration carries out its promise to ramp up Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, recently ...

Across the Roaring Fork Valley, change is testing the systems and values that define our communities. Recent reporting from ...

Former Aspen-Sopris District Ranger Kevin Warner stands outside the newly renovated U.S. Forest Service visitor center in Carbondale on his last day working for the White River National Forest on Sept ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. The state water board will decide next week whether to approve a proposal from the Western Slope that ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. Every element that a wildfire needs in order to burn big, hot and fast converged in the northwestern ...

An undated historic photo shows the U.S. Forest Service ranger near the Mount of the Holy Cross. Before the turn of the 20th century, public lands lacked formal protection. “Nowhere has the strength ...

Thank you for your support of Aspen Journalism! Your support made this work possible. Thank you. State officials may have solved the puzzle of how zebra mussels got into the Colorado River. On July 3, ...

KLAMATH, Calif. — In a thick forest along the remote northern California coast earlier this month, a group of mostly young Indigenous kayakers pushed off into the clear-emerald waters of the recently ...