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  1. Landlocked on Purpose

    In the fall of 1922, Aldo Leopold and his brother Carl paddled a canoe into the delta of the Colorado River and found a wilderness of green lagoons, a hundred channels braiding through two million acres of cottonwood and willow, egrets standing in the shallows, deer in the cane, and somewhere beyond the firelight the jaguar they never saw and never stopped feeling. Leopold wrote about that trip a quarter century later and confessed that he never went back. He preferred the delta as memory held it, because he understood what was coming for it. He was right to stay away. In November of that same year, in a lodge outside Santa Fe, commissioners from seven states signed the Colorado River Compact and divided the river on paper. The canoe and the signature belong in the same paragraph because one of them canceled the other. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/20/land

  2. Landlocked on Purpose

    In the fall of 1922, Aldo Leopold and his brother Carl paddled a canoe into the delta of the Colorado River and found a wilderness of green lagoons, a hundred channels braiding through two million acres of cottonwood and willow, egrets standing in the shallows, deer in the cane, and somewhere beyond the firelight the jaguar they never saw and never stopped feeling. Leopold wrote about that trip a quarter century later and confessed that he never went back. He preferred the delta as memory held it, because he understood what was coming for it. He was right to stay away. In November of that same year, in a lodge outside Santa Fe, commissioners from seven states signed the Colorado River Compact and divided the river on paper. The canoe and the signature belong in the same paragraph because one of them canceled the other. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/20/land

  3. Landlocked on Purpose

    In the fall of 1922, Aldo Leopold and his brother Carl paddled a canoe into the delta of the Colorado River and found a wilderness of green lagoons, a hundred channels braiding through two million acres of cottonwood and willow, egrets standing in the shallows, deer in the cane, and somewhere beyond the firelight the jaguar they never saw and never stopped feeling. Leopold wrote about that trip a quarter century later and confessed that he never went back. He preferred the delta as memory held it, because he understood what was coming for it. He was right to stay away. In November of that same year, in a lodge outside Santa Fe, commissioners from seven states signed the Colorado River Compact and divided the river on paper. The canoe and the signature belong in the same paragraph because one of them canceled the other. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/20/land

  4. Landlocked on Purpose

    In the fall of 1922, Aldo Leopold and his brother Carl paddled a canoe into the delta of the Colorado River and found a wilderness of green lagoons, a hundred channels braiding through two million acres of cottonwood and willow, egrets standing in the shallows, deer in the cane, and somewhere beyond the firelight the jaguar they never saw and never stopped feeling. Leopold wrote about that trip a quarter century later and confessed that he never went back. He preferred the delta as memory held it, because he understood what was coming for it. He was right to stay away. In November of that same year, in a lodge outside Santa Fe, commissioners from seven states signed the Colorado River Compact and divided the river on paper. The canoe and the signature belong in the same paragraph because one of them canceled the other. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/20/land

  5. Landlocked on Purpose

    In the fall of 1922, Aldo Leopold and his brother Carl paddled a canoe into the delta of the Colorado River and found a wilderness of green lagoons, a hundred channels braiding through two million acres of cottonwood and willow, egrets standing in the shallows, deer in the cane, and somewhere beyond the firelight the jaguar they never saw and never stopped feeling. Leopold wrote about that trip a quarter century later and confessed that he never went back. He preferred the delta as memory held it, because he understood what was coming for it. He was right to stay away. In November of that same year, in a lodge outside Santa Fe, commissioners from seven states signed the Colorado River Compact and divided the river on paper. The canoe and the signature belong in the same paragraph because one of them canceled the other. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/20/land

  6. @frogglin

    We’ve notified #WesternWater maybe 6 times since 2012 that my father had died, yet they continue to show his name on our water bills & won’t let me change my account settings online to delete his name from our account.

  7. Nebraska sues Colorado over water it draws from the South Platte River

    Gov. Polis: 'We have also continued to meet in good faith with Nebraska, despite its attempts to intimidate Colorado landowners and damage our agricultural communities'

    sentinelcolorado.com/state-and

    #COpolitics #WaterPolicy #WesternWater

  8. Nebraska sues Colorado over water it draws from the South Platte River

    Gov. Polis: 'We have also continued to meet in good faith with Nebraska, despite its attempts to intimidate Colorado landowners and damage our agricultural communities'

    sentinelcolorado.com/state-and

    #COpolitics #WaterPolicy #WesternWater

  9. Nebraska sues Colorado over water it draws from the South Platte River

    Gov. Polis: 'We have also continued to meet in good faith with Nebraska, despite its attempts to intimidate Colorado landowners and damage our agricultural communities'

    sentinelcolorado.com/state-and

    #COpolitics #WaterPolicy #WesternWater

  10. Nebraska sues Colorado over water it draws from the South Platte River

    Gov. Polis: 'We have also continued to meet in good faith with Nebraska, despite its attempts to intimidate Colorado landowners and damage our agricultural communities'

    sentinelcolorado.com/state-and

    #COpolitics #WaterPolicy #WesternWater

  11. Nebraska sues Colorado over water it draws from the South Platte River

    Gov. Polis: 'We have also continued to meet in good faith with Nebraska, despite its attempts to intimidate Colorado landowners and damage our agricultural communities'

    sentinelcolorado.com/state-and

    #COpolitics #WaterPolicy #WesternWater

  12. ❄️🏔 INSTAAR's Mountain Hydrology Group has assembled another real-time estimate of snow water equivalent (SWE) for basins in the Sierra Nevada. Their May 1st data show 50-96% of average (2001-2021).

    For a full report and detailed maps, see buff.ly/3Ue20ag
    #CAwater #CAwx #westernwater #rainonsnow #climatechange

  13. ❄️🏔 INSTAAR's Mountain Hydrology Group has assembled another real-time estimate of snow water equivalent (SWE) for basins in the Sierra Nevada. Their May 1st data show 50-96% of average (2001-2021).

    For a full report and detailed maps, see buff.ly/3Ue20ag
    #CAwater #CAwx #westernwater #rainonsnow #climatechange

  14. ❄️🏔 INSTAAR's Mountain Hydrology Group has assembled another real-time estimate of snow water equivalent (SWE) for basins in the Sierra Nevada. Their May 1st data show 50-96% of average (2001-2021).

    For a full report and detailed maps, see buff.ly/3Ue20ag
    #CAwater #CAwx #westernwater #rainonsnow #climatechange

  15. ❄️🏔 INSTAAR's Mountain Hydrology Group has assembled another real-time estimate of snow water equivalent (SWE) for basins in the Sierra Nevada. Their May 1st data show 50-96% of average (2001-2021).

    For a full report and detailed maps, see buff.ly/3Ue20ag
    #CAwater #CAwx #westernwater #rainonsnow #climatechange

  16. INSTAAR's Mountain Hydrology Group has assembled another real-time estimate of snow water equivalent (SWE) for basins in the Sierra Nevada. The April 8th data show 90-138% of average (2001-2021).

    For a full report and detailed maps, see buff.ly/3Ue20ag

    #CAwater #CAwx #westernwater #rainonsnow #climatechange

  17. INSTAAR's Mountain Hydrology Group has assembled another real-time estimate of snow water equivalent (SWE) for basins in the Sierra Nevada. The April 8th data show 90-138% of average (2001-2021).

    For a full report and detailed maps, see buff.ly/3Ue20ag

    #CAwater #CAwx #westernwater #rainonsnow #climatechange

  18. INSTAAR's Mountain Hydrology Group has assembled another real-time estimate of snow water equivalent (SWE) for basins in the Sierra Nevada. The April 8th data show 90-138% of average (2001-2021).

    For a full report and detailed maps, see buff.ly/3Ue20ag

    #CAwater #CAwx #westernwater #rainonsnow #climatechange

  19. INSTAAR's Mountain Hydrology Group has assembled another real-time estimate of snow water equivalent (SWE) for basins in the Sierra Nevada. The April 8th data show 90-138% of average (2001-2021).

    For a full report and detailed maps, see buff.ly/3Ue20ag

    #CAwater #CAwx #westernwater #rainonsnow #climatechange

  20. The Mountain Hydrology Group at INSTAAR just released their 2/1/23 real-time snow water equivalent (SWE) report. Percent of 2001-2021 average ranges btw. 174-250+%. Check it out! We have updated our model and have added comparisons to airborne snow.
    #CAwater #CAwx #CAclimate #westernwater #water #rainonsnow #climatechange #climate
    Find the PDFs and data at colorado.edu/instaar/research/

  21. The Mountain Hydrology Group at INSTAAR just released their 2/1/23 real-time snow water equivalent (SWE) report. Percent of 2001-2021 average ranges btw. 174-250+%. Check it out! We have updated our model and have added comparisons to airborne snow.
    #CAwater #CAwx #CAclimate #westernwater #water #rainonsnow #climatechange #climate
    Find the PDFs and data at colorado.edu/instaar/research/

  22. The Mountain Hydrology Group at INSTAAR just released their 2/1/23 real-time snow water equivalent (SWE) report. Percent of 2001-2021 average ranges btw. 174-250+%. Check it out! We have updated our model and have added comparisons to airborne snow.
    #CAwater #CAwx #CAclimate #westernwater #water #rainonsnow #climatechange #climate
    Find the PDFs and data at colorado.edu/instaar/research/

  23. The Mountain Hydrology Group at INSTAAR just released their 2/1/23 real-time snow water equivalent (SWE) report. Percent of 2001-2021 average ranges btw. 174-250+%. Check it out! We have updated our model and have added comparisons to airborne snow.
    #CAwater #CAwx #CAclimate #westernwater #water #rainonsnow #climatechange #climate
    Find the PDFs and data at colorado.edu/instaar/research/

  24. The Mountain Hydrology Group at INSTAAR just released their 2/1/23 real-time snow water equivalent (SWE) report. Percent of 2001-2021 average ranges btw. 174-250+%. Check it out! We have updated our model and have added comparisons to airborne snow.
    #CAwater #CAwx #CAclimate #westernwater #water #rainonsnow #climatechange #climate
    Find the PDFs and data at colorado.edu/instaar/research/

  25. The part where this is 100% caused by upstream diversions of fresh-water that should flow to the lake is buried deep and glossed over. | The Great Salt Lake’s ecological collapse has begun
    Scientists note changes to the food web they’ve never seen before, which could lead to endangered species listings and other disasters at Utah’s famous natural wonder. sltrib.com/news/environment/20 #water #agwater #drought #westernwater #waterlaw