jfleck at inkstain
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