The Water Information Program

Above-average snowpack in the mountains doesn’t necessarily translate into low wildfire danger, especially if forecasts for a

Colorado's forests — aching after major wildfires and widespread beetle infestation — have found a new

An eight-year drought has left scores of ponds and wetlands dry and thirsty in Yellowstone.

Western Colorado lawmakers admit there is little the state legislature can do about Colorado’s catastrophic loss of lodgepole pine forests from an epidemic of the mountain pin

Newly released federal and state wildfire reports offer a grim assessment on threats to life, homes and drinking water supplies if hard rains hit steep slopes charred in last month's wildfires.

 Forest fires stir up as much mercury as power plants, scattering the toxic metal after it was originally deposited by industrial smokestacks, according to a study released Wednesday.  Sc

Firefighters battling brush or structure fires in southwest La Plata County have a ready supply of water available for the first time.

As the wildfire season ebbs this fall, a group of Colorado water managers, foresters, and scientists are all fired up about protecting watersheds from forest fires that could ravage drinking water

Federal "grass banks" in five Utah counties have been released for emergency grazing as ranchers struggle to feed their livestock after record w

It's been several months since any major wildfires threatened Colorado, but that could change in the near future...Portions of western Colorado are under high to extreme fire danger...The forecast has