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Las Vegas man gets 4 years in Colorado prison for coin machine thefts https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/3269/ #AdamsCounty #burglaries #colorado #ColoradoAttorneyGeneral #ColoradoDining #ColoradoFood #ColoradoGroceryStores #ColoradoNews #ColoradoRestaurants #court #CrimeAndPublicSafety #Denver #EagleCounty #FrontRange #GrandJunction #GrandJury #Interstate70 #JeffersonCounty #LasVegas #LatestHeadlines #MesaCounty #money #mountains #News #PhilWeiser #prison #thefts #Thornton #WesternSlope
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Unraveling The Drivers Of Water Shortage Across Spatial Scales And Sectors In Colorado's West Slope River Basins
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2026EF008137 <-- shared paper
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['sorry' about your Kentucky Bluegrass, almonds, etc... /s]
H/T Sai Veena Sunkara | Postdoctoral Associate
“…Colorado’s West Slope basins provide nearly 70% of the inflows to Lake Powell and are also essential to communities, agriculture, industry, hydropower, and downstream Colorado River users.
To examine the wide range of possible futures, [they] simulated 2.1 million years, defining 20,000 plausible scenarios applying changes to streamflow, snowmelt timing, drought persistence, and agricultural, municipal, and industrial water demand.
A key finding is that there is 𝗻𝗼 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀. The most influential drivers vary by basin, sector, and water user. In some areas, shortages are driven primarily by persistent low-flow conditions or changing snowmelt timing. In others, increasing municipal, industrial, or irrigation demand plays a larger role. This suggests that adaptation strategies must be tailored to specific basins and users rather than relying on a single, system-wide solution. Other major findings are
• West Slope deliveries to Lake Powell could fall more than 50% below the current median baseline
• Storage in major West Slope reservoirs could decline 40–55% below historical medians
These results underscore the need for water-planning approaches that account for deep uncertainty, persistent drought, shifting snowmelt patterns, and sector-specific demand…”
#Colorado #waterallocation #StateMod #USWest #USA #WesternSlope #waterresources #watersecurity #watershortage #drought #snowmelt #rainfall #precipitation #riverbasin #water #hydrography #hydrology #reasons #agriculture #industry #hydropower #streamflow #surfacewater #municipal #irrigation #adaptationstrategies #planning #policy #mitigation #ColoradoRiver #basins #climatechange #extremeweather #populationpressure #waterdemand #waterrights #model #modeling #HiddenMarkovModel #stochastic #projecteddemand #ColoradoRiverBasin #wateruse #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #strategy -
In Colorado’s wolf reintroduction, range riders aim to keep the peace
MESA COUNTY — Christina Vander Berg knelt in the dirt on top of a hill, using a tape…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #Agriculture #Animals #cattle #Colorado #coloradonews #ColoradoParksandWildlife #Environment #latestheadlines #mesacounty #Publiclands #rural #Science #WesternSlope #wolf #Wolves
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Mountain towns must tighten taps, but water shortages could have been worse
This Fresh Water News story is a collaboration between The Colorado Sun and Water Education Colorado. It also…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Coloradostateengineer #eagle #FreshWaterNews #GrandLake #GrandValley #GreenMountainReservoir #Kremmling #LakeGranby #NorthernWater #RoaringForkRiver #RuediReservoir #Science #tourism. #WesternSlope
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Denver Health face losses with state, federal Medicaid changes
Denver Health recorded its …
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #budget #Colorado #coloradohospitalassociation #coloradonews #delta #DeltaCounty #Denver #denverhealthmedicalcenter #donnalynne #finances #financial #frontrange #Health #hospital #hospitals #lakecounty #latestheadlines #leadville #Medicaid #mountains #rural #SalesTax #Tariffs #Trump #WesternSlope
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Federal Colorado River managers will impose 10-year management plan
Lacking agreement from the seven Colorado River states, fede…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #arizona #California #Colorado #coloradonews #ColoradoRiver #coloradowater #Congress #Denver #frontrange #LakeMead #LakePowell #latestheadlines #Nevada #NewMexico #Science #UniversityofColorado #UniversityofColoradoBoulder #Utah #water #WesternSlope #Wyoming
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BREAKING NEWS: Grand Junction City Council votes 5-2 on camping ordinance change
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) – After hours of council discussion and public comment, the Grand Junc…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #BreakingNews #campingordinance #GrandJunctionCityCouncil #GrantPassversusJohnson #Headlines #Homelessness #mesacounty #publicpropertycampingban #Topstories #TopStories #unhousedpopulation #westerncoloraod #WesternSlope
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Colorado’s wolves remained in northwestern part of state in past month
Colorado’s collared wolves remained in the northwestern part of the state over the past month, according to a…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #Colorado #coloradonews #ColoradoParksandWildlife #Environment #graywolf #latestheadlines #Science #WesternSlope #wolf #Wolves
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/670130/ -
Trump’s $100,000 fee on H-1B visas to impact Colorado hospitals
In a tight health care…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #arapahoecounty #Aurora #Colorado #coloradoattorneygeneral #coloradonews #Congress #courts #davita #DepartmentofHomelandSecurity #doctors #frontrange #GrandJunction #Health #hospital #hospitals #Immigration #Jobs #latestheadlines #lawsuit #mesacounty #nurses #PhilWeiser #Trump #UCHealth #WesternSlope
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Colorado wolf map from CPW shows September activity across mountains
Colorado’s wolves returned to areas near the Utah border this month, though most wolf activity remain…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #clearcreekcounty #Colorado #coloradonews #ColoradoParksandWildlife #EagleCounty #Environment #grandcounty #GrandJunction #latestheadlines #mesacounty #mountains #Science #Utah #WesternSlope #wolf #wolfcreekpass #Wolves
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Low river flows on Colorado's Western Slope trigger calls, closures, stressed fish
Streamflows on the Western Slope have plummeted over the last month, sending water managers scrambling to boost flows for endangered fish and ranking it among the driest years in recent history.
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Colorado drought intensifies as streamflows wither amid wildfires
Drought and long, hot summer days are sucking Western Colorado’s rivers dry, parching farm fields and fu…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Climate #climatechange #Colorado #coloradonews #ColoradoRiver #coloradoriverbasin #conservation #Drought #latestheadlines #mountains #rain #riverrafting #rivers #Science #snowpack #WesternSlope #Wildfires #yampariver
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“More than 14 million acres of federal public land in #Colorado could be eligible for sale if Congress passes the current version of the budget bill mandating the sale of a fraction of the nation’s public lands…[including] chunks of mountain, foothills and plains along the Front Range and the Western Slope.”
https://www.denverpost.com/2025/06/17/colorado-public-lands-sale-federal-budget/
#FrontRange #WesternSlope #Durango #GrandJunction #CastleRock #ColoradoSprings #SteamboatSprings #Aspen #Camping #Hiking #Skiing #Conservation #RepublicanBudgetBill
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@vapaad looking at those from the other side! Also, thanks for all the storms #WesternSlope!
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#introduction - Hi. I’m a resident of #cedaredgecolorado and I’m a staff writer and photographer for the #DeltaCountyIndependent news media in the #westernslope ‘s #deltacountycolorado, I grew up out here in this one-stoplight town at the base of #grandmesa.
Interests include:
#Journalism
#fantasybooks
#sciencefiction
#harrypotter
#doctorwho