The West’s Water
Photo Essay
Water, or perhaps the absence of water, defines the Wyoming landscape and shapes the species that live on it. Big sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata) is one species particularly well adapted to Wyoming’s arid climate.
Measuring Return Flows
This story is a sidebar to One Irrigator’s Waste is Another’s Supply: Upstream Efficiencies Mean Less Water for Downstream Users in Nebraska’s Panhandle.
As a child in northeastern Wyoming, I remember my summers as irrigation season.
Dust on Snow
A Dirty Mountain Snow Pack Affects Communities Downstream
This story is a sidebar to Supercomputer-Powered Model Improves Water Planning: A Hi-Resolution Hydrologic Model Peers into the Future of Western Water.
The Great Water Transfer
Diverting Water from Basin to Basin
In the summer of 1860, farmers in central Colorado found Left Hand Creek dry.[1] They started looking for replacement water.
No-Name
Asking Big Questions About Hydrology in One Little Watershed
Square solar panels congregate on weathered tree stumps in a small open area in the Medicine Bow National Forest.
Beaver Dreams
The Rancher Who Wished for a Beaver
“They’re really beneficial, to get the shrubs in, get the water up.”
Essay: Ba’a
Water is Life
I was fortunate to grow up on the banks of Trout Creek, one of the many streams winding its way out of the Wind River Mountains onto mile-high flatlands and eventually to the lower elevations of the Big Wind River, if you consider 4,000 to 5,000 feet to be low.
One Irrigator’s Waste is Another’s Supply
Upstream Efficiencies Mean Less Water For Downstream Users in Nebraska’s Panhandle
On a warm summer morning in western Nebraska, 77-year-old farmer Bob Busch stood next to a sugar beet field in a worn denim shirt
Supercomputer-Powered Model Improves Water Planning
A Hi-Resolution Hydrologic Model Peers into the Future of Western Water
Inside the University of Wyoming’s 3-D visualization cave, winter is coming.
Aquifer Recharge
Underground Storage Could Help Cities Sustain Water Supplies
In 2009 Lytle Water Solutions, LLC, a geology consulting firm, constructed a small, rectangular basin in a groundwater well field outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Healing Sick Rivers
Encampment River Case Study
A front loader picks up massive boulders as if they are pebbles. A bulldozer shoves rocks into a mound. High-pitched beeps ebb and flow as the machinery works back and forth.