Lower Dolores a target for extra protections

McPhee Reservoir managers are concerned that more sections on the lower Dolores River are becoming eligible for a national Wild and Scenic River status. Irrigation managers tend to cringe when they...

DATE: July 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Commissioners: Noncompliant river deck can stay

In a split vote, the Montezuma County commissioners on Monday approved a variance to a regulation prohibiting structures nearer than 100 feet from the Dolores River. Commissioners Steve Chappell...

DATE: June 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Groups unite to restore creek

Using a combination of equipment, raw materials and manpower, the Dolores River Anglers chapter of Trout Unlimited, in conjunction with the United States Forest Service, recently completed a...

DATE: June 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: DS - Living

Public-private partners

Using a combination of equipment, raw materials and manpower, the Dolores River Anglers chapter of Trout Unlimited, in conjunction with the United States Forest Service, recently completed a...

DATE: June 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Suckers and suckers and chubs, oh my!

Two suckers and a chub are a formidable gang of native fish that have been claiming the waters of the Lower Dolores River as their turf for millennia. But survival of the bluehead sucker,...

DATE: June 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Drought halts water storage 33% full at Jackson Lake MWCD irrigators will get 17% of share

At Jackson Gulch Reservoir, what you see is all you get. A water-right call on the Mancos River has ended storage diversions into the reservoir locals call Jackson Lake. The 3,349 acre feet the...

DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

‘Water grab’ Tipton bashes USFS for plan to tie water rights to land

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton and two witnesses at a water rights hearing Thursday bashed the U.S. Forest Service for what they characterized as the agency’s attempts to take away private...

DATE: April 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Irrigators, rafters face bleak summer

Area boaters have come to terms with the fact that another dry year has dashed any chance for rafting on the lower Dolores River this summer. But revised runoff forecasts and precipitation reports...

DATE: April 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Irrigators, rafters face bleak summer

Area boaters have come to terms with the fact that another dry year has dashed any chance for rafting on the lower Dolores River this summer. But revised runoff forecasts and precipitation reports...

DATE: April 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

A trickle from McPhee for fickle fish

Reservoir water release to help native species

DATE: March 27, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

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