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SCAPE Outreach Coordinator Brittany Cupp appears in a screenshot from the Center on Rural Innovation’s video “The Rural Edge: Durango, Colorado.”
The Animas River, left, was reduced to a trickle this fall because of prolonged drought. The picture on the right shows the river in May when flows were higher.
Public land agencies say people unfamiliar with backcountry travel disregarded rules this summer, resulting in more damage to fragile landscapes. Ridgway photographer Tony Litschewski took this photograph near Clear Lake outside Silverton.
Not much happened publicly in the long battle over the Village at Wolf Creek, but that may change in 2021.
BP America Production Co. is expected to officially hand over its assets in the San Juan Basin in 2021 to a European renewable energy company, IKAV.
Kerry Guy, on-scene coordinator with the Environmental Protection Agency, stands inside the Red & Bonita Mine north of Silverton. The EPA closed the bulkhead at the mine to evaluate whether a permanent closure is a long-term option. 2020 marked the five-year anniversary of the Gold King Mine Spill, which released 3 million gallons of wastewater into the Animas River. It is expected the agency will start cleanup projects to improve water quality in 2021.
The Animas River was reduced to a trickle this fall because of prolonged drought.
Gov. Jared Polis speaks to reporters at a news conference in October.
Vials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are prepped to be loaded into syringes during a vaccination clinic for health care workers at Southwest Memorial Hospital recently.
San Juan College recently partnered with the SCAPE program.
