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Quoting Charles Brackett

Some good Colorado River news, some bad news, and a request for help

“big messy community conversations”

Colorado River Basin – new report from my colleagues on the implications of running on empty

Bob and I got our pictures in the paper!

2026-05-19: Federal managers increase release for the silvery minnow

Why our ribbons are still green, but with a dry river at their heart

The Farmers Almanac Says We’re Gonna Have a Wet Summer

Quoting Matt Webb

June 2, Bookworks

The Utility of Operationally Neutral and Flexible Conservation Pools in the Colorado River Basin

“Birding Toward Hope”

Quoting Sonya Ziaja

Quoting Emily Drabinski on libraries

Every Pixel Tells a Story

More on 2026 US wheat acreage

Quoting Trading Economics

It’s a city book

The Bard

A Freakish Heat Wave – A Statistical Wonder

The Colorado River and the Tragedy of the Anti-Commons

“It is as dry as it has ever been.”

Quoting Dorothea Lange

Quoting Jeff Kightlinger and Jim Lochhead

In which my colleagues and I share thoughts on the future of Colorado River governance

Pitchers and catchers report

My career as an energy economics journalist in two figures

Colorado River news isn’t all bad!

Craig Mod on Books

Quoting Rolf Schmidt-Petersen on water management in New Mexico in 2002

Quoting Brandon Sanderson

Colorado River Assigned Water: Quoting Sorensen et al

Marsh Buggies in the Desert

A truly awful Colorado River snowpack so far in 2026

The bus as method

Expect another dry year (2026) on New Mexico’s Rio Grande

Quoting John Prine

Ribbons of Green, now available for pre-order

The map and the territory

Quoting John Entsminger

Quoting Huckleberry Finn

Colorado River Deadlines & Incentives

Quoting Katie Hobbs on Colorado River Negotiations

Water is For Fighting Over, ten years on

Equity in the Colorado River Basin

Quoting Jack Schmidt

Happy Holidays From a Flowing Rio Grande

Autumn Rains Delay Colorado River Basin-wide Reservoir Depletion

Albuquerque’s warmest fall in history

The Rio Grande’s Institutional Hydrograph: December 2025

Quoting Dagmar Llewellyn

The Game’s Afoot

Quoting Nathan Mathias and Megan Price

The Value of Water in Alternative Uses, Cemetery Edition

California’s 2025 use of Colorado River water is on track to be the lowest since 1949

Salmon return to the Klamath headwaters

Administration proposes budget cuts for Tribal clean water initiatives

Quoting Kevin Wheeler

Externalities of fallowing

No Bad Days on the Bike

The driest year on New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande since 1964

“the nearest thing I have seen to being true”

The 1922 Colorado River Compact is Now the Obvious Elephant in the Negotiating Room

The ungrievable and blockbuster art

Querencia

A rainbow, a river, and the first cranes of fall

The Rio Puerco was running today

Analysis of Colorado River Basin Storage Suggests Need For Immediate Action

Broken Arrow

Rio Abajo and the Unit 7 Drain

New Mexico’s Dry Middle Rio Grande: More Data Visualizations

Driest on New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande since when? 1972? 1964?

Awaiting the Colorado River 24-Month Study