Since 1973 the CWCB has appropriated — or created — instream flow rights on 1,500 river and stream segments in Colorado, totaling 9,005 river miles. It has also acquired, through donations or ...

The battle over one of the Colorado River’s oldest, non-consumptive water rights continued this week during a 14-hour Colorado Water Conservation Board hearing over whether the rights could be used ...

CRESTED BUTTE — The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) and the Colorado Water Trust closed on the purchase of up to 5.45 cubic feet per second of water under the Breem Ditch water right for ...

Garfield County Commissioners Tom Jankovsky and Mike Samson on Monday awarded grants to eight local organizations and heard an informational presentation about the county’s 2026 Instream Flow water ...

Ouray County is asking the state water board to delay a water court filing designed to protect streamflows so it can try to resolve issues in a separate but related water court case. In July, the ...

CARBONDALE, Colorado – The Roaring Fork Conservancy and the Colorado Water Trust are introducing a pilot water leasing program to the Roaring Fork Valley in response to the drought conditions expected ...

The Colorado Water Conservation Board has agreed to a request from four Front Range water providers that it hold a hearing related to a proposal to create an instream flow water right involving the ...

For those fishermen looking for a little motivation in their angling, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is offering ball caps to anyone who fishes in a handful of more than 130 creeks and rivers ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1241209 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1241209 Copy URL Recreational uses of streams, although nonconsumptive, increasingly conflict with ...