In 2025, the Water Desk brought readers authoritative reporting on water quality issues in the Roaring Fork Valley, invasive ...

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As an Aspen Journalism donor, thank you for making this reporting possible! St. Benedict’s Monastery, described by its stewards as a “symbol of God’s presence” in the heart of a “sacred valley” in Old ...

Colorado State University researcher Perry Cabot talks to a group about forage crops at the Fruita field station. Cabot studies the effects of irrigation withdrawal and forage crops that use less ...

From left, Colorado representative Becky Mitchell, Arizona representative Tom Buschatzke and Wyoming representative Brandon Gebhart shared their perspectives at the Colorado River Water Users ...

Lake Powell is seen from the air in October 2022. The December 24-month study from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation projects Powell could drop below the threshold needed to make hydropower in 2026.

Sunbeams cast light on the fields, chapel and cloisters of St. Benedict’s Monastery on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. The monastery will offer its final public Mass on Jan. 11. Credit: Kaya Williams/Aspen ...

Lynn Sanson, backcountry community response officer for the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office, talks with Emma Schaefer, a naturalist with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, at the Maroon Bells ...

This week, the sale of St. Benedict’s Monastery — where for nearly 70 years Trappist monks had been living lives of work and prayer, caring for their 3,700 acres of the Capitol Creek Valley while ...