Anastasia Hufham

1 week ago | moabtimes.com | Anastasia Hufham

Over the last three years, the Colorado River Basin has experienced three relatively healthy winters. Boaters recreate on Lake Powell near Page, Ariz. on Thursday, July 13, 2023. Photo by Bethany Baker/The Salt Lake TribuneBut that decent snowpack, after melting, hasn’t filled reservoirs like Lake Mead and Lake Powell as much as water users across the West might like, due to years of drought and overuse.

2 weeks ago | sltrib.com | Anastasia Hufham

It's been three years - and three legislative sessions - since the Great Salt Lake and Lake Powell hit record lows due to years of drought and chronicoveruse. Public fervor to save the two bodies of water soared in response, and Utah's elected officials reacted with new laws to keep more water in the embattled lakes. Mother Nature, too, replied - with that staved off dire straits. This session, though, Utah lawmakers took a noticeably different approach.

2 weeks ago | sltrib.com | Anastasia Hufham

Two men were charged Tuesday after Utah officials say they dumped oily wastewater into a northeastern Utah pond on multiple occasions. "The sheer quantity of the pollution was beyond anything I've ever seen as an investigator," said Brent Kasza, a special agent for the Utah Trust Lands Administration. The state agency said the wastewater came from an oilfield in Bear River, Wyo., near the state line with Utah.

3 weeks ago | sltrib.com | Julie Jag |Anastasia Hufham

With one glance, Richard Dorchuck could size up the value of most any of the lots at Utah's antler auction. "I am the original 'Antler Man,'" he said. "I have a professional, vocational, recreational Ph.D. in this stuff."Dorchuck towed two helpers and an orange scale the size of a wheelbarrow down rows of deer, elk and moose antlers, around bobcat and beaver pelts and between bison and cougar skulls.

1 month ago | sltrib.com | Anastasia Hufham

Winter is drawing to a close, and with it, so are the chances of boosting snowpack across the Colorado River Basin. The mountains in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming saw a cluster of storms last month that aided their snowpack levels. But it wasn't enough to make any meaningful dent into the forecasts, said Brenda Alcorn, a forecaster at the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center.