Wyoming
March 12, 2010--Water shortages may hit northern Rockies (USA Today)
Much of the nation may be snow-weary, but farmers and ranchers who rely on winter snowpack in the northern Rockies for irrigation during the dry months of the growing season could face water shortages this summer unless more snow arrives soon.
February 26, 2010--Shell Oil walks away from Colorado's last free-flowing river (Summit Daily News)
Shell Oil Co. said Tuesday it is abandoning its quest for water rights from the Yampa River in northwest Colorado to develop oil shale production, citing delays in the project due to the global economic downturn. The Yampa is the last free-flowing river in Colorado, uninterrupted by dams or other diversions.
January 27, 2010--Wyoming State Engineer about to enact new water well rules (Greeley Tribune)
Wyoming is close to having its first new standards for water wells in more than 35 years. The rules are expected to take effect this spring or summer and would apply to all new residential, industrial and municipal water wells in the state. The rules would impose tougher standards to keep pollution and bacteria from contaminating groundwater.
January 16, 2010--Pine beetles exhausting food source, foresters say (Denver Post)
The mountain pine beetles that have ravaged about 3 million acres of Colorado and southern Wyoming forests may be exhausting their primary food source — raising the prospect that the beetle epidemic could end, state and federal foresters said this week. Regeneration of decimated forests has begun as the U.S. Forest Service hires loggers to remove dead trees.
January 15, 2010--Flaming Gorge pipeline users lining up (Pueblo Chieftain)
An entrepreneur who wants to build a 560-mile water pipeline from Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Wyoming to Colorado’s Front Range says he has lined up letters of interest from water users all along the route. The exception so far is El Paso County, where water providers want to talk about other options for where water could be stored and create a task force.
Four States Irrigation Council Annual Meeting (Fort Collins, CO)
Submitted by denise on December 1, 2009 - 2:21pm 12/01/2009 1:18 pm
For more information and/or to register, call (970) 622-2229.
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November 24, 2009--Sen. Mark Udall introduces bill to focus attention on West's beetle-killed forests (Denver Post)
New legislation to declare "Insect Emergency Areas" in Colorado and other western states on Monday raised hopes of focusing national attention — and funding — on the problem of beetle-killed forests. Although the bill introduced by Colorado U.S. Sen. Mark Udall and Sen.
September 21, 2009--Bureau: Green River lacks water for pipeline plan (Greeley Tribune)
Officials with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation say the Green River basin
in Wyoming could provide less water over the long term than a private
entrepreneur has applied pump from it for a planned pipeline to
Colorado. Colorado entrepreneur Aaron Million has applied to pump 250,000 acre feet of water a year from the Green River. Million says he may reduce his request.
September 18, 2009--Pine beetles have spread across Nebraska Panhandle (Greeley Tribune)
Mountain pine beetles have rapidly spread
across the Panhandle since their presence was discovered earlier this
summer near Harrisburg. District
state forester Doak Nickerson says the beetle has devastated millions
of acres of forest across the western half of the country. Nickerson says the speed with which the beetles scattered across the Panhandle was an unhappy surprise.
September 7, 2009--Fewer Neb. acres could be taken out of irrigation (Denver Post)
Boosting Platte River flows to levels
required in a three-state, multimillion-dollar agreement may require
less reliance on irrigation shutdowns in Nebraska than originally
thought.
