Heather Sackett

1 week ago | aspentimes.com | Heather Sackett

It was a tale of two winters for the mountains containing the Colorado River’s headwaters, with the northern ranges seeing an above-average snowpack peak, while the southern half of the state lagged behind with below-normal snowpack. As the season came to a close, the snowpack for the Yampa/White/Little Snake River basin in the northwest corner of the state and the headwaters of the Colorado River mainstem both peaked around April 9 at 113% and 101% of normal, respectively.

1 week ago | vaildaily.com | Heather Sackett

It was a tale of two winters for the mountains containing the Colorado River’s headwaters, with the northern ranges seeing an above-average snowpack peak, while the southern half of the state lagged behind with below-normal snowpack. As the season came to a close, the snowpack for the Yampa/White/Little Snake River basin in the northwest corner of the state and the headwaters of the Colorado River mainstem both peaked around April 9 at 113% and 101% of normal, respectively.

1 week ago | gjsentinel.com | Heather Sackett

It was a tale of two winters for the mountains containing the Colorado River’s headwaters, with the northern ranges seeing an above-average snowpack peak, while the southern half of the state lagged behind with below-normal snowpack. As the season came to a close, the snowpack for the Yampa/White/Little Snake River basin in the northwest corner of the state and the headwaters of the Colorado River mainstem both peaked around April 9 at 113% and 101% of normal, respectively.

1 week ago | aspenjournalism.org | Heather Sackett

It was a tale of two winters for the mountains containing the Colorado River’s headwaters, with the northern ranges seeing an above-average snowpack peak, while the southern half of the state lagged behind with below-normal snowpack. As the season came to a close, the snowpack for the Yampa/White/Little Snake River basin in the northwest corner of the state and the headwaters of the Colorado River mainstem both peaked around April 9 at 113% and 101% of normal, respectively.

2 weeks ago | gjsentinel.com | Heather Sackett

Time is ticking for states that share the shrinking Colorado River to negotiate a new set of governing rules. One major sticking point, which has the potential to thrust the parties into a protracted legal battle, hinges on differing interpretations of a few sentences in a century-old agreement. In a recent letter, the river’s Lower Basin states — California, Nevada and Arizona — asked federal officials to analyze the effects of a hypothetical legal concept known as a “compact call.”The problem?