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Colorado River

Also known as: Colorado river, Colorado River Basin, Colorado River basin, Upper Colorado River, upper Colorado River, Colorado River system, Colorado River System, Little Colorado River, Lower Colorado River, lower Colorado River, Colorado River Delta, Colorado River delta, Colorado River valley, Colorado River Valley, Colorado River Basins, Colorado Rivers
Papers: 41 | Mentions: 275

Publications (46)

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Model-based interpretation of solute exports and carbon partitioning during shale weathering in a mountainous hillslope

2026Water Resources Researchstudy site
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Controls from above and below: Snow, soil, and steepness drive diverging trends of subsurface water and streamflow dynamics

2025Hydrological Processesstudy site
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Seasonality and albedo dependence of cloud radiative forcing in the Upper Colorado River Basin

2025Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheresstudy site
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Measurement report: An investigation of the spatiotemporal variability in aerosols in the mountainous terrain of the upper Colorado River basin using SAIL-Net

2025Atmospheric Chemistry and Physicsstudy site
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Hidden features: How subsurface and landscape heterogeneity govern hydrologic connectivity and stream chemistry in a montane watershed

2025Hydrological Processesreference site
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Seasonality and albedo dependence of cloud radiative forcing in the Upper Colorado River Basin

2025Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheresreference site
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Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology and paleoclimate reconstruction for the East River watershed, Colorado, USA

2024Quaternary Researchreference site
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Cold-season precipitation sensitivity to microphysical parameterizations: hydrologic evaluations leveraging snow lidar datasets

2024Journal of Hydrometeorologystudy site
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Hydrological control of rock carbon fluxes from shale weathering

2024Nature Waterstudy site
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Forest composition and structural controls on canopy snow interception in a Colorado watershed

2024mentioned
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Declining groundwater storage expected to amplify mountain streamflow reductions in a warmer world

2024Nature Waterreference site
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Recent Upper Colorado River Streamflow Declines Driven by Loss of Spring Precipitation

2024Geophysical Research Lettersstudy site
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Agricultural Water Footprints and Productivity in the Colorado River Basin

2023Hydrologystudy site
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Mineralogical, magnetic and geochemical data constrain the pathways and extent of weathering of mineralized sedimentary rocks

2023Geochimica et Cosmochimica Actareference site
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The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign

2023Bulletin of the American Meteorological Societystudy site
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Downscaled hyper-resolution (400 m) gridded datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (2008-2019) for East Taylor subbasin (western United States)

2022Earth System Science Data Discussionsreference site
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Modeling Spatial Distribution of Snow Water Equivalent by Combining Meteorological and Satellite Data with Lidar Maps

2022Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systemshabitat component
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Modeling Spatial Distribution of Snow Water Equivalent by Combining Meteorological and Satellite Data with Lidar Maps

2022Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systemsstudy site
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Quantifying Subsurface Flow and Solute Transport in a Snowmelt-Recharged Hillslope With Multiyear Water Balance

2022Water Resources Researchstudy site
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Variability in observed stable water isotopes in snowpack across a mountainous watershed in Colorado

2022Hydrological Processesreference site
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Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above-and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions

2022Hydrology and Earth System Sciencesreference site
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Understanding the Hydrogeochemical Response of a Mountainous Watershed Using Integrated Surface-Subsurface Flow and Reactive Transport Modeling

2022Water Resources Researchreference site
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Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change

2022reference site
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BASIN-3D: A brokering framework to integrate diverse environmental data

2022Computers & Geosciencesstudy site
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From legacy contamination to watershed systems science: a review of scientific insights and technologies developed through DOE-supported research in water and energy security

2022Environmental Research Lettersreference site
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From legacy contamination to watershed systems science: a review of scientific insights and technologies developed through DOE-supported research in water and energy security

2022Environmental Research Lettersstudy site
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Modeling geogenic and atmospheric nitrogen through the East River Watershed, Colorado Rocky Mountains

2021PloS onereference site
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Bedrock weathering contributes to subsurface reactive nitrogen and nitrous oxide emissions

2021Nature Geosciencereference site
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A hybrid data-model approach to map soil thickness in mountain hillslopes

2021Earth Surface Dynamicsreference site
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Expanding in-stream flow rights as a mechanism for water conservation and aquatic ecosystem preservation

2021study site
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Green Light for Adaptive Policies on the Colorado River

2021Waterstudy site
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Baseflow Age Distributions and Depth of Active Groundwater Flow in a Snow Dominated Mountain Headwater Basin

2020Water Resource Research doi 10.1029/2020WR028161reference site
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Post-Depositional Fluid Flow in Jurassic Sandstones of the Uncompahgre Uplift: Insights From Magnetic Fabrics

2020Frontiers in Earth Sciencementioned
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Baseflow Age Distributions and Depth of Active Groundwater Flow in a Snow Dominated Mountain Headwater Basin

2020Water Resource Research doi 10.1029/2020WR028161study site
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Seasonal Manganese Transport in the Hyporheic Zone of a Snowmelt-Dominated River (East River, Colorado)

2020Hydrogeology Journalreference site
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Microbial communities across a hillslope-riparian transect shaped by proximity to the stream, groundwater table, and weathered bedrock

2019Ecology and Evolutionstudy site
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Sensitivity analysis of hydraulic conductivity and Manning’s n parameters lead to new method to scale effective hydraulic conductivity across model resolutions.

2019Hydrological Processesreference site
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Seasonal manganese transport in the hyporheic zone of a snowmelt-dominated river (East River, Colorado)

2019reference site
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Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

2019reference site
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Streamflow partitioning and transit time distribution in snow-dominated basins as a function of climate

2019Journal of Hydrologystudy site
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The East River, Colorado, Watershed: A mountainous community testbed for improving predictive understanding of multiscale hydrological-biogeochemical dynamics

2018Vadose Zone Journalreference site
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Factors Controlling Seasonal Groundwater and Solute Flux from Snow-Dominated Basins

2018Hydrological Processesstudy site
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Snowmelt controls on concentration-discharge relationships and the balance of oxidative and acid-base weathering fluxes in an alpine catchment, East River, Colorado

2017Water Resources Researchstudy site
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Snowmelt controls on concentration-discharge relationships and the balance of oxidative and acid-base weathering fluxes in an alpine catchment, East River, Colorado

2017Water Resources Researchreference site
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Propagating climate and vegetation change through the hydrologic cycle in a mountain headwaters catchment.

2015reference site
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A brief review of the geology of the San Juan region of southwestern Colorado

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Documents (229)

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The Conduct and Evaluation of a Cloud Seeding Program For The Upper Gunnison River Basin, Colorado During The 2011-2012 Winter Season

2011reference area
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The Colorado Water Workshop

2009subject area
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Study: Oil shale could require lots of water

2008affected area
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Subject: Central Colorado Project (CCP), Western Renewable Energy & Water Productivity Multiplier

2007subject area
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Subject: Central Colorado Project (CCP), Western Renewable Energy & Water Productivity Multiplier

2007affected area
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Re: Comments on Newsletter 3, Fall 2003

2003subject area
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Re: Sept. '03 Water Report

2003affected area
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Re: Sept. '03 Water Report

2003subject area
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EIS For the Gunnison Gorge NCA and Wilderness

2003reference area
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Chubs in the Tub: Colorado's Native Aquatic Species Restoration Facility

2003affected area
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Water Articles

2002subject area
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Board of the Colorado River Water Conservation District

2002subject area
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Power Documents

2002reference area
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CARP-Colorado Aqueduct Return Project

2002subject area
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Power Documents

2002subject area
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CARP-Colorado Aqueduct Return Project

2002project site
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Relating A Water Supply To Many Demands Upon It

2001affected area
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Water Rights 2001- Part 3

2001subject area
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Relating A Water Supply To Many Demands Upon It

2001context
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Relating A Water Supply To Many Demands Upon It

2001subject area
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Water Rights 2001- Part 3

2001reference area
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Water Rights 2001- Part 2

2001reference area
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Water Rights 2001- Part 1

2001subject area
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Re: AP: Court deals setback to Colo. Rafters

2001subject area
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Re: AP: Court deals setback to Colo. Rafters

2001subject area
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Colorado River Water Users Association 2001 Resolutions

2001subject area
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Colorado River Water Users Association 2001 Resolutions

2001primary subject
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Recent Advanced in Water Recycling Technologies

2001affected area
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Recent Advanced in Water Recycling Technologies

2001reference area
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Water Rights 2001- Part 4

2001subject area
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CWCB’s Exclusive Appropriation Rights of ISFs Recognized

2000subject area
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“Owens Backs Water for Agriculture”

2000subject area
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“West Slope Water Interests”

2000subject area
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Bills at the Colorado General Assembly

2000reference area
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Brief History of The Bureau of Reclamation

2000subject area
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Call Protections

2000context
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Call Protections

2000reference area
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CO River Conservation District on Trans-mountain Diversion

2000subject area
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Colorado River Report

2000reference area
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Colorado River Report

2000subject area
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Colorado Water Conservation Board Meeting, July 25, 2000

2000reference area
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Re: “In Colorado, water is a fiery topic” April 17, 2000. Another View

2000primary topic
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Questions submitted by POWER to be Answered by UGRWCD Candidates, 2000

2000affected area
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Direction of the Board of County Commissioners: In-Stream Flow Rights

2000reference area
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Potential State In-Stream Flow Rights in Gunnison

2000reference area
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Policy Statement Regarding Trans-mountain Water Diversions

2000subject area
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Planning for Drought

2000subject area
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Water Workshop 1999

1999subject area
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Trespass Issue.

1999reference area
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Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District Management Plan- 1999-2005 part 1

1999reference area
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Re: Colorado River Water Shortage

1999subject area
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Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District Management Plan- 1999-2005 part 2

1999reference area
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Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District Management Plan- 1999-2005 part 2

1999subject area
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DRAFT Environmental Assessment Upper Colorado Region

1999reference area
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Position of “POWER” Concerning Colorado River Compact Interpretations

1999subject area
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POWER Meeting

1999subject area
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Response to POWER’s Letter About Compact Provisions

1999context
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Response to POWER’s Letter About Compact Provisions

1999primary topic
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Colorado River Compact 1999

1999reference area
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Colorado River Compact 1999

1999subject area
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Calif. Water Worries Reach New Level

1998subject area
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Agreement for the Subordination of Wayne N. Aspinall Unit Water Rights Within the Gunnison Basin

1998subject area
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Colorado River Flow At Lee Ferry, Arizona

1998subject area
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Colorado Source Water Assessment & Protection Swap

1998subject area
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Water Requirments in the Lower Basin States (with POWER recommendations)

1998subject area
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Colorado Gets Water Bill

1998reference area
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Water Availability for Transmountain Diversion-Consequences of Further Transmountain Diversion

1998subject area
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Field Excursion to Colorado and Utah, Western United States

1997reference area
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Finding of No Significant Impact Fish Passage at the Grand Valley Irrigation Company Diversion Dam on the Colorado River

1997project site
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Summary of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement

1997reference area
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Wise Water Stewardship Through Partnership

1997subject area
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Colorado River Basin Study: Final Report

1997subject area
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Statewide Fish Management Policy

1997affected area
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Final Environmental Assessment: Providing Fish Passage at the Grand Valley Irrigation Company Diversion Dam on the Colorado River

1997subject area
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Report on Emerging Trends and Management Issues of the Colorado River Basin

1996affected area
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Appendix 2 List of Designated Colorado Natural Areas, List of Registered Colorado Natural Areas, List of Identified Colorado Natural Areas

1996reference area
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Efficient Water Use in the Colorado River Basin

1996subject area
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Endangered Fish Recovery Program & Instream Flows

1996subject area
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Report on Emerging Trends and Management Issues of the Colorado River Basin

1996subject area
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Review of Data and Summary of Opinions Regarding Snowmass Creek Modification

1996context
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The Greenline

1996project site
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The Role of Science in Colorado River Management

1996affected area
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The Role of Science in Colorado River Management

1996subject area
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Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District- Vol. 5 1996-1997

1996reference area
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Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Uranium Mill)

1995reference area
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Water Rights as a Community Discussion

1995reference area
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POWER: Purpose and Membership

1995reference area
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“Colorado Water Should Be Returned to the State”

1995subject area
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Charting the Future of the Colorado River’s Undeveloped Waters

1995subject area
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Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District (Volume 2)- Part 2

1994reference area
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Case Number 93M249 The People of the State of Colorado, Plainfiff, vs. Robert Morris, Defendant.

1994reference area
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“Colorado River Water, an Endless Resource?”

1994subject area
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Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District (Volume 2)- Part 4

1994reference area
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Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District (Volume 2)- Part 5

1994regulatory framework
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Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District (Volume 2)- Part 6

1994reference area
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Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District (Volume 2)- Part 6

1994subject area
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Environmental Assessment Taylor Loop Recreation Project

1994affected area
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Reasons to Continue Historic Operations of the Aspinall Unit

1994reference area
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Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District (Volume 2)- Part 7

1994subject area
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Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District (Volume 2)- Part 1

1994reference area
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Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District (Volume 3)- Part 1

1994subject area
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Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District (Volume 3)- Part 2

1994reference area
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Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District (Volume 3)- Part 6

1994reference area
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Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District (Volume 2)- Part 3

1994subject area
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Navajo Transmission Project Scoping Summary

1994reference area
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The 1993 Annual Water Law and Water Policy Conference

1993subject area
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Federal Actions: Comment Period Reopened on Draft Biological Support Document on Colorado River Endangered Fishes

1993subject area
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1993 Annual Water Law and Water Policy Conference

1993affected area
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1993 Annual Water Law and Water Policy Conference

1993subject area
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Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin

1993subject area
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1993 Annual Legislative Review: Reinventing State Water Rights Systems

1993subject area
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An Analysis of Colorado and Federal Law in Contrast to the “Report of the Long’s Peak Working Group”

1993reference area
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An Analysis of Colorado and Federal Law in Contrast to the “Report of the Long’s Peak Working Group”

1993subject area
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Texas Regulates the Edwards Aquifer

1993reference area
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Remarks of John Stencel, President, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union

1991subject area
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Union Park Background Documents- Part 1

1991affected area
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Union Park Background Documents- Part 1

1991reference area
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Controlling Water Use to Protect Water Quality Within Western Allocation Systems

1991subject area
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Union Park Background Documents- Part 1

1991subject area
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Union Park Background Documents- Part 2

1991subject area
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Proceedings of the Third Intermountain Meadow Symposium

1991reference area
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Draft Proposal for the Resolution of Selected Long-Term Issues on the Colorado River

1991primary topic
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Record of Decision Amendment of the Land and Resource Management Plan and Final Supplement to the Environmental Impact Statement

1991reference area
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Faulty Fish Testimony Delays Colorado Water Solution

1991affected area
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Draft Proposal for the Resolution of Selected Long-Term Issues on the Colorado River

1991jurisdiction
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Proposed Union Park Reservoir Part 1

1991subject area
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Proposed Union Park Reservoir Part 3

1991subject area
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Proposed Union Park Reservoir Part 2

1991subject area
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Proposed Union Park Reservoir Part 4

1991reference area
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Proposed Union Park Reservoir Part 6

1991affected area
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Proposed Union Park Reservoir Part 7

1991reference area
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Draft Environmental Impact Statement

1990affected area
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Draft Environmental Impact Statement

1990subject area
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Environmental Agenda- Colorado 1989

1989affected area
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Water and Arid Lands of the Western United States

1988subject area
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Water and Arid Lands of the Western United States

1988reference area
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Proceedings of the National Symposium on Protection of Wetlands From Agricultural Impacts

1988reference area
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Ralph Clark Correspondance with DOE on UMTRA Project

1987reference area
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Why Colorado?

1985reference area
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Right To Float On Colorado River

1983subject area
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Sodium Mineral Development Environmental Assesment – Draft

1981reference area
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Stream Dynamics: An Overview for Land Managers

1980reference area
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Newsletters from Folks United to Thwart Unsafe Radiation Emissions (FUTURE)

1979affected area
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Draft Environmental Statement Related to the Homestake Mining Company- Homestake Mining Company Pitch Project

1978reference area
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An Illustrated Guide to the Proposed Threatened and Endangered Plant Species in Colorado

1978subject area
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An Illustrated Guide to the Proposed Threatened and Endangered Plant Species in Colorado

1978reference area
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Of and for Western Colorado_1978

1978affected area
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Of and For Western Colorado

1978affected area
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Energy from the West: A Progress Report of Technology Assessment of Western Energy Resource Development- Volume 1 Summary

1977reference area
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A Future for Colorado

1976study subject
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Oil Shale Clippings and Notes 1976 Denver Post

1976subject area
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Oil Shale Clippings and Notes 1976 Denver Post

1976affected area
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The host of ideas that you set forth about the health problems associated with energy development have triggered several thoughts.

1975affected area
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Priority areas of environmental concern in Colorado – working papers

1974subject area
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Petition for Scenic Corridor Designation

1974affected area
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Priority Areas of Enviromental Concern in Colorado

1974subject area
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Priority areas of environmental concern in Colorado – working papers

1974affected area
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Residential Development in the Mountains of Colorado: A Survey of Issues

1972reference area
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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service: Public Hearing in the Matter of: Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument Wilderness Reporter's Transcript

1970reference area
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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service: Public Hearing in the Matter of: Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument Wilderness Reporter's Transcript

1970reference area
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Colorado: Options for the Future

1970affected area
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Colorado: Options for the Future

1970reference area
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Beaver in Western North America: An Annotated Bibliography 1966 to 1986

1966study area
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The Beaver in Colorado: It's Biology, Ecology, Management and Economics

1964reference area
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Assignment of Water Rights 1962

1962subject area
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Colorado River Storage Project [Under Construction]

1961subject area
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Combined Report of The Colorado River Storage Project

1959subject area
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Colorado River Storage Project

1956subject area
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A Bill to Authorize the Secretary of the Interior to Contruct, Operate, and Maintain the Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects, and for Other Purposes

1955subject area
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A Bill to Authorize the Secretary of the Interior to Contruct, Operate, and Maintain the Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects, and for Other Purposes

1955primary topic
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Resolution of the Gunnsion Watershed Conservation Committee Relative to the Curencanti Dam

1951reference area
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Policy and Review Committee Meeting-Gunnison Storage

1951subject area
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Colorado River Water Development

1951subject area
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Colorado River Compact 1922

1922subject area
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Synthetic Fuels Subsidy Legislation Revived

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Summary of the Gunnison Water Situation

affected area
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The Case For Curecanti Reservoir

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ANNUAL STATUS REPORT On The Uranuim Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program

study area
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Subordination + Power BoR Protection Part 5

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The Fossil Ridge Wilderness a proposal

affected area
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The Great Western Water Fight

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Western Water Flow

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Subordination + Power BoR Protection Part 4

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Western Water Flow

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Subordination + Power BoR Protection Part 4

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Subordination + Power BoR Protection Part 3

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Subordination + Power BoR Protection Part 3

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Subordination + Power BoR Protection Part 2

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Subordination + Power BoR Protection Part 2

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Subordination + Power BoR Protection Part 1

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BLM Wilderness: The Colorado Proposal

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Boating rights on rivers in Colorado

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Upper Gunnison Basin In-Stream Flow Project

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State's water: A slippery subject

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A State at Risk: A Study of Colorado River Compact Obligations

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Some Factors Historically Affecting The Distribution and Abundance of Fishes In The Gunnison River

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Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District- Reasonable Diligence

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Soil and Water Conservation in Colorado

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Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District

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Shale Country

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Rifle Creek Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Project

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Revising Desertification of Riparian Zones Along Cold Desert Streams

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Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment – Water Quality Control Commission

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Colorado Irrigation Systems

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Colorado River Debt 2

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Colorado River Report

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Colorado River Report

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Colorado Water Quality Control

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Proofs

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Project Summary Taylor Loop Recreation Project

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POWER Subordination #2

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POWER Subordination #2

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A Conduct and Evaluation of A Cloud Seeing Program

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A Classification of the Riparian Vegetation of the Gunnison River Basin, Colorado

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Water Quality Control Commission

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Water Quality Programs

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Water Quality Programs

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A Classification of the Riparian Vegetation of the Gunnison River Basin, Colorado

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Power Subordination

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POWER response to The Application for Water Rights by Arapaho County

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A Bill for an Act Concerning State Planning and Infrastructure

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Conserving Wetlands on Colorado’s Agricultural Lands: Opportunities and Benefits for Farmers and Ranchers

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Department Of Energy Compliance With Floodplain – Wetlands Environmental Review Requirements

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Energy Development and Conservation

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Power Colo. R. Debt I

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Power Colo. R. Debt I

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District Court Water Division: Application of The USA to Make Absolute A Conditional Water Right in Montrose County, CO

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Environmental Valuation

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Environmental Valuation

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