The latest USDA – Natural Resources Conservation Service news release concerning the status of Colorado’s snowpack, reservoir storage and expected water supplies for 2013 is available from our web site at:  http://www.co.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/fcst/state/current/monthly/data/news_selection.html

Currently Colorado’s snow pack is the lowest in 10 years.  But since last winter’s snows were exceptional, the effects have not be too noticeable.  However, ski resorts definitely have seen a difference.  According to Colorado’s SNOTEL network, the state is running at 66% of normal and the Gunnison River basin is at 60%.  For now [...]

Officials say two Western State College of Colorado students died in a house fire in Gunnison. Investigators are trying to determine whether the fire that killed 18-year-old Lucille Grace Causley of Harbor Springs, Michigan, and 21-year-old Adam Michael Lockard of Bethesda, Maryland, was intentionally set. The Gunnison Country Times says an initial investigation into Saturday’s [...]