Editor’s note: This article is published through the Colorado River Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative supported by the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah ...
On Friday, Nov. 7, I was out at Mud Lake Wildlife Management Area looking for some owls when I noticed an Idaho Department of Fish and Game truck stop near a small field of corn. The driver grabbed a ...
In dry years, Tuttle Creek Lake and other reservoirs keep the Kansas River flowing strong enough to provide drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people. But these manmade lakes are disappearing ...
That's how much sediment flows into Tuttle Creek Lake each year. After decades of this, mud has eaten up so much space that about half of the lake near Manhattan has disappeared. Put another way, ...