A diverse coalition of 136 groups has petitioned the EPA to add America’s dams and reservoirs as a source category under the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting Program…
Author: Gary Wockner
Gary Wockner, PhD, is a scientist and conservationist based in Colorado. Follow him on Twitter, @GaryWockner. Learn more at savethecolorado.org
Time to Renegotiate the Management of the Colorado River
‘Save The Colorado’ believes the ecological health of the Colorado River must be given a center seat at the table…
OPINION: Comments on the Draft Upper Basin Drought Response Operations Plan
First, in the Plan and the appendices, nowhere does the Bureau mention the cause of the “drought”…
LETTER: Open Letter to the Westminster City Council
The Equity Washers punch down, not up. Nature, which has no voice other than what you give it, is their favorite punching bag…
OPINION: EPA Helping to Kill the Cache la Poudre River
NISP is the most controversial, most environmentally damaging, and most expensive project in northern Colorado history…
OPINION: Rights of Nature for Boulder Creek
Recall, back in July, Nederland was the first community in Colorado to pass a Rights of Nature resolution for their Boulder Creek watershed…
OPINION: Who Will Ask Vice President Harris About Walton Family Influence?
This visit and Associated Press report come two weeks after a bombshell story from the Wall Street Journal about the Waltons’ influence …
OPINION: Conservation Groups Send Notice of Intent to Sue to Federal Agencies
“Nature’s bank account is severely overdrawn due to climate change and unsustainable use… The solution is not to build a bigger bank, but to conserve water…”
OPINION: Godzilla and the Colorado River
“With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound, He pulls the spitting high tension wires down…..”
OPINION: ‘Black Swan’ Drought Proving Glen Canyon Dam Critics Right
In fact, today’s predicted inflow is so low that the figure used by the federal government’s Record of Decision for Glen Canyon Dam doesn’t even include numbers that low on their chart…
OPINION: As Colorado River Shortages Declared, Upper Basin Declares ‘Drain, Baby, Drain!’
“It’s beyond irresponsible that the Bureau of Reclamation is failing to oppose new dams and diversions in the Colorado River basin…”
OPINION: Conservation Groups File Challenge to Doomed Hydropower Project
“Unsustainable use of the Colorado River has already taken this life source to its knees,” said Jen Pelz…
OPINION: The Words That Kill Rivers
If you are a professional environmentalist and trained in water law or hydrology, you’re taught this language in college and law school…
OPINION: ‘Save the Poudre’ Plans Lawsuit to Challenge NISP Water Project
Earlier this week, the Larimer Board of County Commissioners finalized its ‘Findings and Resolution’ (F&R) for the 1041 permit for the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP)…
OPINION: Voting Advice from a Colorado Activist
In a recent Denver Post news story, I called this government-pervading phenomenon, “growthism”, and stated that “growthism is eviscerating the soul of the natural and cultural landscape of our state”…
ESSAY: Poison… Part Two
Japanese beetles were our most common target. When I was younger, my granddad would drive me out to the farm that was to be sprayed. After I turned sixteen and got my license, I drove Dad’s truck…
ESSAY: Poison… Part One
Dad had his own airport with three small hangars filled with planes and a couple more staked out on the grass. In addition to the crop-duster, he always had a few other airplanes, sometimes a helicopter or gyrocopter…
OPINION: Denver Water, Trump Administration Threaten National Environmental Policy Act
Both Denver Water and Trump’s Department of Justice issued “motions to dismiss” in the lawsuit that Save The Colorado et al. have brought against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers…