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“What we’re seeing here on the Bear is indicat

“What we’re seeing here on the Bear is indicative of the Colorado,” Joel Ferry, the director of Utah’s Department of Natural Resources since his appointment in June, told a group of journalists as we gazed north from Antelope Island, ringed by the dry lake bed of the Great Salt Lake. The Great Salt Lake and the Colorado River are suffering from the same affliction: a 20-year drought that is the driest period in the region for 1200 years. But Ferry is referring to both the challenges, and the solutions. “I’m very optimistic,” he said, “as long as we get some snow.”

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An agave opportunity in the Central Valley, a desa

An agave opportunity in the Central Valley, a desal eval by NPR, and the various and several ways out of the water crisis as told to Colorado Politics, all in this week's Water Weekly.

#OnWater #WaterCrisis #Megadrought #coloradoriver #waterinthewest

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The Colorado River Basin is in crisis, scream head

The Colorado River Basin is in crisis, scream headlines. But what exactly is the Colorado River Basin (CRB)? We dug into the geographic data using the USGS Streamer tool to help put the figures in those stories into geographical context. Check out the slides and then read the whole piece at the link in our bio!

“I’m just an odd duck,” Gwen Kolb says often

“I’m just an odd duck,” Gwen Kolb says often. It may be the defining characteristic, and most valuable asset, of a life’s journey that ultimately would take her to a leading role in one of the most successful federal wildlife programs in U.S. history. And a lot of real ducks, happily paddling in wetlands she helped restore, owe Kolb a debt for all that hard work. ➤

Established in 1987, Partners for Fish and Wildlife (PFW) is a program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). While the primary focus of the FWS is regulatory oversight and recovery of threatened and endangered species, PFW is a stand-alone, strictly voluntary program providing free technical and financial assistance to support landowners in voluntary wildlife habitat restoration projects. The program addresses the fact that approximately 70% of land and wildlife habitat in the U.S. is privately owned and that voluntary cooperation on the part of landowners holds the key to the survival of the majority of wildlife species in the country.

In December of 2022, Kolb will retire from the PFW program, where she has served most recently as the New Mexico state coordinator.

The most recent issue of On Land looked back on Gwen's career. Read her story at the link in our bio!

People meeting on the land for observation, discus

People meeting on the land for observation, discussion, and community – that was the purpose of a recent series of Water and Wildlife on Working Lands field days, coordinated by landowners and conservation partners in New Mexico that all focus on the critical work of the radical center.

This concept emerged in the 1990’s following more than a decade of polarizing attacks from some radical environmental groups targeting grazing, timber harvest and other economically relevant resource management strategies on Western landscapes.

The term was coined in New Mexico, where a group of unlikely partners came together to work on a consensus-based approach to land management, at the same time as such groups were beginning to form in communities across the West.

Read more from Bre Owens, who is a rancher, board president of the California Rangeland Conservation Coalition, and stewardship coordinator for Western Landowners Alliance.

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