High Country News reporter Emily Benson talked with KVNF News about an ambitious scientific project on the Grand Mesa the employed new technologies to measure water content in the snowpack.
The skies have cleared up over the Western Slope lately, but a lot of snow fell on Colorado. That's good news for water supplies, but that might change, depending on how the desert storms hit in the spring.
A winter storm has hit western Colorado, with the National Weather Service saying several feet of snow are possible in some areas of the central mountains.
For this week's iSeeChange report, we looked into the recent flurry of rain and some snow, and what, if anything, it might tell us about the coming winter.
iSeeChange producer, Julia Kumari Drapkin, speaks with with local old timers Dallas and June Harding and others. Having lived and worked the land in the area for decades, they give us their observations on change in the area over time.