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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS • The Colorado legislature’s interim water resources review committee, a bipartisan group of 10 lawmakers, began its summer work by relaunching efforts to change the state’s instream flow program. During the 2019 session the committee sponsored two bills that would have made some fairly big changes to the state’s instream flow (ISF) program,…

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS • How will Colorado address its water gap in the future? That’s been the question the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) and the state water plan, unveiled in 2015, have been attempting to address. One of the key underlying assumptions of the water plan — just how big that water gap is for…

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS • The unimaginable happened on May 28. Colorado, for the first time in the 20 years that drought conditions have been tracked, was 100% out of drought, said Russ Schumacher, director of the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University. It was “eight glorious weeks” out of drought, Schumacher told an audience at…

The Guv sure loves to shake things up. What he’s eating in this picture, along with our Joey Bunch, is an Impossible Burger. That’s the meatless, made-from-plants burger offered locally by a variety of chains, such as Burger King, Red Robin, Qdoba and others. An Impossible Burger at Burger King is about a buck more…

Gov. Jared Polis sees a future for Colorado with less meats and more profits, he said Thursday morning while dining on a Burger King Impossible Whopper in his office at the Capitol. The Democratic governor — who eats meat but whose domestic partner is a vegan — caught the attention of state Department of Agriculture staff…