Colorado’s instream-flow program gives the CWCB the ability to hold water rights specifically for preserving the natural environment “to a reasonable degree” by keeping water flowing in the river.

Conservation-minded landowners and groups have been protecting open space for years through land trusts.Now it's time to do the same for streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands, say the backers ...

This package is a big step forward for CWCB's instream flow program. The legislation will help CWCB to protect and restore flows in Colorado's waterways, thereby creating a healthier environment ...

GOLIAD – Florine Davis remembers how the last flood brought down trees along the riverbank.

DENVER — At least $100 million a year is available annually in Colorado to spend on land conservation, but only about $1.5 million a year is available for buying water to leave in the state’s ...

A Colorado Supreme Court ruling this week that upheld an instream flow water right in the San Miguel River in Montrose County also is being praised as an important one for the state's instream ...

Just one state agency has a mission that includes paying people to leave water in Colorado’s rivers for environmental reasons — and that can legally protect the flowing water — and that’s the Colorado ...

But the instream flow program got off to a slow start, and drought was becoming an increasing problem in Colorado. One of the first big droughts was in the winter of 1976-77, ...

An instream flow plan that outlines the Wyoming Game and Fish Department's beneficial use of Wyoming's water for trout restoration meets state law and constitutional muster, according to Wyoming ...

By APRIL AVISON ...

SUMMIT COUNTY ” With a pro-conservation majority in the state Legislature, conservation groups are chomping at the bit to enact meaningful environmental laws. Expanding the state’s instream ...