RSS Feed
Author Archive
Most critical months for snowpack loom
Posted by Coloradoan: None Given on February 23rd, 2015
Coloradoan: The coming months will make or break snowpack levels on the Cache la Poudre River Basin and determine all important water supplies for families and farmers.
As of Feb. 1, the Poudre basin was at 92 percent of the median, seeing a rise in snowpack levels during the first part of February while levels in much of the Colorado declined. The same time last year, the Poudre Basin's snowpack was 112 percent.
But February, March and April are historically the snowiest months on the Poudre basin and...
Posted in 
Study: Climate change could transform Colorado grasslands, alpine tundra
Posted by Coloradoan: None Given on August 27th, 2012
Coloradoan: Clues to climate change in Northern Colorado aren’t limited to dying stands of limber pine trees, bark beetle outbreaks and a trend of rising temperatures throughout the region.
Scientists at the U.S. Forest Service’s Fort Collins-based Rocky Mountain Station say there has been precious little research conducted on how climate change is impacting the Great Plains and the Grasslands of Northern Colorado, but the evidence so far is dramatic.
“Birds are migrating further north, some plant and...
United States: City might phase out use of corn-based ethanol fuel
Posted by Coloradoan: None Given on November 9th, 2011
Coloradoan: The city of Fort Collins may phase out use of corn-based ethanol in its fleet vehicles out of concern for the environment.
The majority of City Council members said Tuesday they would support gradually doing away with the use of E85 fuel, which is 85 percent ethanol, because of the impact ramped-up corn production has had nationally, including water and soil degradation in Iowa and Illinois.
Those impacts may not directly affect Fort Collins, said Council member Ben Manvel, but they should...
Our current snowpack anomaly in past 30 years
Posted by Coloradoan: None Given on June 13th, 2011
Coloradoan: It's the middle of June and the snowpack in Northern Colorado's mountains is still thick and full of water.
But a new U.S. Geological Survey study released Thursday shows that this year's robust snowpack across the region is not normal in the context of the past three decades, when anthropogenic, or human-caused, climate change has been causing Colorado's snowpack to progressively shrink.
Northern Colorado's mountains may be an exception to that rule, however.
Using tree ring samples to...