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Dec 19, 2024 · Aspen Journalism's nonprofit newsroom reporting on water, environment, social justice, history and data from Aspen to Marble to upper Colorado River Basin.
Mission and annual reports - Aspen Journalism
Aspen Journalism is a nonprofit journalism organization based in Aspen, Colorado. Our mission is to produce investigative and in-depth journalism for those with a stake in the Aspen region, by virtue of their living, voting, owning, working, recreating, or visiting here. Our area of geographic concern radiates outward from Aspen to include Pitkin, Eagle and […]
Aspen Journalism | Asking the right questions | The Roundup
4 days ago · Hunting for phantom dams. Recently at Aspen Journalism, Water Desk Editor Heather Sackett published a new investigative project. Like most great pieces of journalism it started with a question, which in this case rose to the top about a year ago, when Sackett was writing about a company with ties to oil and gas development that had conditional water rights dating back almost 60 years for an ...
Water managers deadlocked on Colorado River - Aspen Journalism
Dec 7, 2024 · Each took the opportunity to double down and reiterate their differing positions laid out in competing proposals submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in March. Lower Basin water managers say all seven states that use the Colorado River must share cuts under the driest conditions, while Upper Basin officials maintain they already take cuts in dry years because they are squeezed by ...
Data dashboard: Three-quarters of the rooms in Aspen and …
Mar 18, 2024 · February occupancy for Aspen and Snowmass combined reached 75.9%, down from 76.9% last year, but 7% more rooms were booked due to increased inventory. Snowpack in the Roaring Fork basin reached 110% of median on March 17. Lake Powell's elevation has lost about 7 inches since last week.
The Roundup newsletter Archives - Aspen Journalism
Nov 13, 2024 · Recently at Aspen Journalism, we dig deep into critical water issues on the Western Slope and across the wider Colorado River basin, working conditions at a key Aspen lodging and convention site, and what the fate of a small, historic former gallery in the Castle Creek Valley has to say about our community’s history and […]
The battle for the Aspen Idea: Community or commodity?
Feb 11, 2024 · When Elizabeth Paepcke (1902-1994), in her final years, reflected on the Aspen of her dreams and the utopian visions of her husband, Walter, she foreshadowed in a speech to the Aspen Institute a decadeslong outpouring of sorrow over something sacred and ethereal that she felt had been made profane.
The Roundup | The difference journalism can make
Feb 6, 2024 · Reservoir along Thompson Creek voluntarily canceled. A company that was seeking to extend its nearly 60-year-old conditional water right for a reservoir tied to oil-and-gas drilling that would be sited along Thompson Creek near Carbondale backed away from its application in water court, after Water Desk Editor Heather Sackett broke the news last month that the application was proceeding.
Drought task force can’t agree on conservation program …
Dec 21, 2023 · The losing recommendation contained many of the state’s same long-discussed themes surrounding demand management: Any potential program should be temporary, voluntary and compensated, should avoid disproportionate impacts to any one region, and must not injure other nonparticipating water rights holders; and Western Slope conservation districts should be involved with projects within their ...
Regionalism evolves as a uniting force from Aspen to Parachute
Apr 18, 2024 · The community I am searching for extends more than 80 miles, from Aspen to Parachute. This contiguous, linear city clusters along Highway 82 and Interstate 70, and has a population of about 90,000 – roughly the size of Longmont — and that’s before counting the second homeowners and tourists.