Category: The Roundup

Methane leaks lurking in Coal Basin Recently at Aspen Journalism, we featured Sarah Tory’s piece about a climate problem lurking quietly near Redstone. The Carbondale-based freelancer and High Country News correspondent, writing this month for our Connie Harvey Environment Desk, went out on a day hike with an interesting stakeholder group to visit sites where […]

River District report highlights Western Slope concerns with state water-savings plan Staff will present framework at October board meeting By Heather Sackett | October 2, 2021 Other findings of the report are consistent with what River District and agriculture representatives have been saying since the state began its demand-management discussions in 2019: A program must […]

Last century’s data a stumbling point for Whitney Reservoir You don’t have to be Brad Udall — the renowned Colorado State University water and climate scientist — to know that streamflow conditions occurring between 1945 and 1994 no longer exist. That was one takeaway from an event held last week in the Homestake Valley, high […]

Aspen Journalism’s data journalist, Laurine Lassalle, looks at the 2020 census data, changes to Roaring Fork Valley demographics.

The Pandora’s debate: A buffer for the backcountry  Step around the back of the top terminal of the Silver Queen Gondola and you enter what might be Pitkin County’s most unique, and interesting, land use realm. The acreage stretching out for miles past the Aspen Mountain ski area along both sides of Richmond Ridge gave […]

Water Desk Editor Heather Sackett on the ins and outs of the proposed Ram’s Horn Reservoir and Cow Creek storage project working its way through water court.

A letter from Mark Harvey, Aspen Journalism’s Board President, announcing our new executive director; recent news from our local data dashboard, and a selection of news from other sources.

Roaring Fork River flows and Aspen occupancy rise; Colorado work group fails to reach consensus in anti-speculation report.