The Yampa can drop in late summer and drought years but water now consumed by power plants in Craig and Hayden could boost flows.
Author Archives: Allen Best
Allen Best has been a journalist in Colorado for closing in on a half-century, and his work has been featured everywhere from the Middle Park Times in Kremmling to the New York Times. In 2020, Best started Big Pivots, a nonprofit devoted to reporting on the energy and water transitions in Colorado and beyond.
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Former Grand County manager, Lurline Underbrink Curran, given award by Colorado Water Trust
Working for better outcomes in the wake of transmountain diversions
Posted inSnowmass
Renewed digging, ‘Davos of climate’ ideas identified for Snowmastodon
When scientists and volunteer assistants wrapped up their excavation of the Ziegler Reservoir in 2011 to ride triumphantly in Aspen’s Fourth of July parade, they left untouched 90 percent of the deposits congealed in peat and clay.
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Did humans kill huge animals in Snowmass 50,000 years ago?
Did humans kill a mammoth 50,000 years ago and then cache the meat for later use? Circumstantial evidence of rocks intermixed with bones suggests that was the case. If so, it would rank as one of the major scientific discoveries of the decade, putting people on the North American continent some 36,000 years earlier than what is now generally agreed upon by archaeologists.
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Tom Cardamone to lead local effort to leverage ‘Snowmastodon’ find
Scientists consider the 6,000 bones, including those of at least 34 separate mastodons, and other material excavated from Ziegler Reservoir in 2010 and 2011 a trove of prehistoric treasures.