This report presents the information contained in the SWSI Report that is specific to the Colorado Basin as a starting point for the Colorado Basin Roundtable to develop the needs assessment required by the Interbasin Compact Process.

Bat populations in the western portion of the US are threatened by the rapid westward expansion of White-nose Syndrome (WNS), a disease implicated in the loss of over a million bats since 2006. Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), the fungus believed responsible for WNS, has been confirmed in southeastern Wyoming, southcentral Kansas, western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle, potentially placing at least 13 of the 18 bat species native to Colorado at...

When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. In recent years, newspaper headlines have screamed, "Scarce water and the death of California farms," "The Dust Bowl returns," "A 'megadrought' will grip U.S. in the coming decades." Yet similar stories have been appearing for decades and the taps continue to flow. John Fleck argues that the talk of impending doom is not only untrue, but dangerous. When people get scared, they fight...

"A River No More makes a statement of the utmost importance and gravity. Though it focuses on the Colorado River and its tributaries, the book's implications reach from the high plains of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico to the Pacific littoral; from federal land and water policies to the survival strategies of the ranches, farms, country towns, and small regional capitals that constitute the west's only permanent and renewable way of life."...