February 10, 2008--Meeting to focus on water and climate change (Pueblo Chieftain)
The Rio Grande Basin Roundtable will get its first look at how climate change may affect water supplies across the Southwestern U.S. Tuesday when it hosts its monthly meeting at 2 p.m. at the Inn of the Rio Grande. Jason Vogel, of Stratus Consulting in Boulder, will be the headlined speaker at the meeting, which also will include updates on the habitat conservation plan for the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher and the work of the roundtable's nonconsumptive-use committee. Vogel's presentation will include discussion of potential impacts of climate change to the Rio Grande Basin, but these will be derived or extrapolated from possible regional impacts, rather than specific studies of the headwaters or the San Luis Valley. Water managers across the Western U.S. are trying to put a finger on how far and wide the impacts of climate change will stretch.
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