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Fishing closures are becoming routine as record heat warms rivers in the US West | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
MONTANA Fishing restricted as rivers warm LIVINGSTON — Trout need cool water to survive, but record heat this summer has driven water temperatures to lethal levels for fish. Wildlife officials are banning fishing during certain hours on rivers and streams across the U.S. West, following an exceptionally dry winter and amid widespread drought. Lower water…
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INSIGHTS | A West without snow creates a Colorado you won’t know
I’ve taken this climate change talk with an attentive grain of salt, hoping, I guess, that it was overly hyped for fundraising. That’s melted away over time. You can’t blame me for being a skeptic. I was born doubting most things. When I was a kid, pollution was depicted in the media I consumed, Mad…
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INSIGHTS | My memories of Justice Greg Hobbs flow like a river
Greg Hobbs was a lot like the Colorado rivers and lakes he loved: Deep, cool and a little bit of a lot of things. I still haven’t gotten my mind or heart around the fact he’s gone, even through he died Nov. 30 of a pulmonary embolism, two weeks short of his 77th birthday, surrounded…
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Rafters, anglers worry as Colo.’s famed whitewater becomes low water
By Jennifer Oldham, Special to The Washington Post KREMMLING – In the state known as the “mother of rivers,” the third-warmest and driest period in more than a century is wreaking havoc on waterways that provide the economic lifeline for rural communities and high-alpine habitat for Colorado’s signature fish, the greenback cutthroat trout. The extremes…